Performance languages: English, Inuktut and Kalaallisut (Greenlandic)

2020-01-22 20:00 2020-02-09 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/22154

At once strangely complex and astonishingly simple, Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools is a concert and conversation between two people: both women, storytellers, and artists. Queer theatre-maker Evalyn Parry and Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory met on an Arctic expedition from Iqaluit to Greenland, setting out with very different ideas of what dreams the expedition might fulfil. One was realizing her father’s wish to see the far North, the other was navigating the routes of her...

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Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre (GCTC),1233 Wellington Street West,Ottawa
Jan 22 - Feb 9, 2020
Jan 22 - Feb 9, 2020
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Evalyn Parry, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory. Lighting design : Rebecca Picherack. Set design : Kaitlin Hickey. © Jeremy Mimnagh. Artistic treatment: Heather Campbell
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Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory. Lighting design : Rebecca Picherack. Set design : Kaitlin Hickey. © Jeremy Mimnagh
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Evalyn Parry. Lighting design : Rebecca Picherack. Set design : Kaitlin Hickey. © Jeremy Mimnagh
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Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Evalyn Parry. Lighting design : Rebecca Picherack. Set design : Kaitlin Hickey. © Jeremy Mimnagh
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Evalyn Parry, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory. Lighting design : Rebecca Picherack. Set design : Kaitlin Hickey. © Jeremy Mimnagh. Artistic treatment: Heather Campbell
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Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory. Lighting design : Rebecca Picherack. Set design : Kaitlin Hickey. © Jeremy Mimnagh
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Evalyn Parry. Lighting design : Rebecca Picherack. Set design : Kaitlin Hickey. © Jeremy Mimnagh
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Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Evalyn Parry. Lighting design : Rebecca Picherack. Set design : Kaitlin Hickey. © Jeremy Mimnagh
  • ≈ 110 minutes · No intermission

At once strangely complex and astonishingly simple, Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools is a concert and conversation between two people: both women, storytellers, and artists.

Queer theatre-maker Evalyn Parry and Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory met on an Arctic expedition from Iqaluit to Greenland, setting out with very different ideas of what dreams the expedition might fulfil. One was realizing her father’s wish to see the far North, the other was navigating the routes of her ancestors.

Embodying the stories of their heritage, Evalyn and Laakkuluk put a face to the colonial histories, power structures and the changing climate that lie between them.


ᑮᓇᓕᒃ; ᐃᐱᑦᑐᑦ ᓴᓇᕐᕈᑏᑦ

ᑮᓇᓕᒃ: ᐃᐱᑦᑐᑦ ᓴᓇᕐᕈᑏᑦ, ᑯᐃᐅ ᑕᐅᑐᕋᓐᓇᑕᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓴᓇᔨ ᐃᐊᕙᓕᓐ ᐸᐅᕆ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᓄᒃ ᑕᐅᑐᕋᓐᓈᖅᑕᐅᓱᖅ ᓚᑯᓗᒃ ᐅᐃᓕᐊᒻᓴᓐ ᐹᑐᕆ ᓄᓇᖑᐊᓕᐅᖅᐳᒃ ᓄᑖᒥᒃ ᑕᐅᑐᕋᓐᓈᖅᑕᐅᓂᒃᒧᑦ ᐱᐅᔪᒥᒃ ᓴᓇᖃᑎᒌᑉᐳᒃ ᓴᓚᔅᓴᖅᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᐃᓕᓴᕆᔭᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖓ ᓴᖅᑭᑎᑦᑎᓪᓗᓂ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᖓᓂᒃ ᓄᖑᑎᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᓂᖓᓂᒃ ᑭᖑᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂ, ᐱᔪᓐᓇᕐᓂᖃᕐᕕᐅᔪᓂᒃ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᒍᓯᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓯᓚᐅ ᐊᓯᔾᔨᐸᓪᓕᐊᓂᖓᓂᒃ ᐊᑯᓐᓂᖃᖅᑐᑎᒃ.

Inuktitut translation


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Artists

  • evalyn-parry
    Creator + Performer Evalyn Parry
  • Creator + Performer Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
  • erin-brubacher
    Director + Creator Erin Brubacher
  • elysha-poirier
    Live Video + Creator Elysha Poirier
  • Cello + Live Music Cris Derksen
  • aleda-deroche
    Sound Consultant Aleda DeRoche
  • kaitlin-hickey
    Set Design Kaitlin Hickey
  • rebecca-picherak
    Lighting Design Rebecca Picherack
  • georgia-priestly-brown
    Stage Manager Georgia Priestley-Brown
  • Created by Evalyn Parry, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Erin Brubacher and Elysha Poirier with Cris Derksen
  • Production A Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Production
  • Co-Presented Co-presented with and hosted by Great Canadian Theatre Company