Reparations and Reconciliation: A Playreading of Owl Calling with a Post-show Discussion

The national, award-winning play Owl Calling (produced by Root Sky Theatre Company) was written in conjunction with the SSHRC funded study Reconciling Perspectives and Building Public Memory. The study and the play explore the lived experience of people involved in Canada's largest claims process for reparations from residential school abuses. Owl Calling portrays the life of an ordinary Indigenous family living in a suburban neighbourhood in a Canadian prairie city. It shows an Indigenous family struggling to deal with a system and a way of life initially imposed upon their people generations ago. It is a reconciliation play that addresses the inter-generational impacts of IRS and the ways in which a family tries to overcome them. Two of the characters are university students. An all professional, Indigenous cast and director will take us through the play and then a panel of Elders will address concerns raised. The play involves live music.

This event is free for Elders and Survivors of residential schools and theatre students, and by donation for others. The production is supported by a VP Discretionary Fund Awarad, the Faculty of Arts, the Department of Sociology and Social Studies, and the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance. The event is in-person at the Shu-Box Theatre, Dr. William Riddell Centre, University of Regina. In keeping with theatre norms, please arrive in advance of 7 PM.

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