
“Don’t Let It End Like This, Tell Them I Said Something” is the title of a book and a poem by Paul Vermeersch
what is the role of the artist in these times?
is it true that “survival is insufficient”?
Bring your pens and papers
your laptops and tablets
and be prepared to write about what matters
to you, to your communities, to the world
For BIPOC playwrights only
Limited spaces available
Cost $20 (if cost is prohibitive, please contact Santiago at artassoc@playwrightsatlantic.ca)
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Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director and dramaturg. Her works include the play The Unplugging, the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto Shawnadithit, the short play-for-film Katharsis, and the audio plays Lâche Pas la Patate and You Can’t Get There From Here. She co-created, with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight, the verbatim play Reasonable Doubt, about relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan. She is currently working on Tapwewin with Maria Campbell, on Namwayut with Marion Newman, on Sophia with Tim Brady. From 2003-2011, she served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts. Her book, Medicine Shows, about Indigenous performance in Canada was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015. She is the Company Dramaturg for Sum Theatre. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Public Policy at Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy.
