Event Series:
Kiuryaq
Kiuryaq
September 19 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Kiuryaq is an immersive circumpolar theatre performance that explores our relationship with the Northern Lights. It is a multi-disciplinary piece created in collaboration with sound composers, digital media artists, and theatre artists from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Canada, Greenland, Sápmi territory and Alaska.
We follow these northern stories of connection that inspire us through the aurora borealis, or kiuryaq in Inuvialuktun. These stories – frightening, spiritual, epic and playful – are situated in our memories of then and experiences of now. All are held in our vast cosmologies, converging in ways that could not have imagined when this journey began.
Kiuryaq is about two siblings born in the North, an older sister and a younger brother. One is taken down south by a forced adoption and raised with no knowledge of their place of birth, the other is raised under the Aurora with their grandparents. Under the ancestral connection of the Northern Lights, choices are made that change both their realities.
Kiuryaq is a transformative performance work which brings the circumpolar region together to share wisdom, warnings and humour to all those who are curious. In form, Kiuryaq blends theatre, with three performers embodying multiple roles; concert, featuring original music played by a live string quartet; and film, with expansive, immersive projections.