Featured Presentations

(PRONOUNCED “PILK-SILK”) With a style perpetually galvanized by darkness and haunting northern beauty, sisters Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay come together to create an Inuit-style throat singing duo, PIQSIQ. Performing ancient traditional songs and eerie new compositions, they leave their listeners enthralled with the infinity of possible answers to the question “What is the meaning...

In partnership with A CREE TAKEOVER | BY RENELTTA ARLUKINSPIRED BY THE YOUTH OF FROG LAKE FIRST NATION CO-PRODUCTION WITH AKPIK THEATRE The groundbreaking Pawâkan Macbeth is Indigenous playwright, Reneltta Arluk’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s darkest play into Cree history, legend and cosmology. Set in Plains Cree territory in the 1870s, before the establishment of First...

In partnership with A CREE TAKEOVER | BY RENELTTA ARLUKINSPIRED BY THE YOUTH OF FROG LAKE FIRST NATION CO-PRODUCTION WITH AKPIK THEATRE The groundbreaking Pawâkan Macbeth is Indigenous playwright, Reneltta Arluk’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s darkest play into Cree history, legend and cosmology. Set in Plains Cree territory in the 1870s, before the establishment of First...

GRAMMY-NOMINATED GUESTS FROM NORWAY ANNA MARIA FRIMAN / LINN ANDREA FUGLSETH / JORUNN LOVISE HUSAN The crystalline voices of Trio Mediaeval have captivated audiences since the group was founded in Oslo in 1997. The Grammy-nominated trio’s core repertoire features sacred monophonic and polyphonic medieval music from England, Italy and France; contemporary works written for the...

A CELTIC TREAT Skye Consort & Emma Björling perform trans-Atlantic arrangements of songs and tunes from Sweden,Norway, Ireland, Scotland, England, Québec, Acadia,the USA, as well as original compositions. Each musician brings their own individual interpretation to these traditions to create this extraordinary collaboration, consisting of voices, fiddle, nyckelharpa, cello, bouzouki, banjo, and percussion. Collectively, the...

THE NORTHERN ASSEMBLY: INDEPENDENCE FOR THE NORTH!IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SNOWKING WINTER FESTIVAL NORDTING – The Northern Assembly•a nomadic people’s parliament of the North•a party for the periphery•a separatist movement for the Arctic. NORDTING is an enthusiastic and challenging mix of a political rally, gala show and powerpoint lecture. Staged as a peoples’ assembly, the ambition...

UPPERCUT DANSETEATREINTERNATIONAL GUESTS FROM DENMARK BENCHED is a brutally honest bodily tale about life’s big and very small questions. About settling down. About daring to sit in opposition, about sitting...