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NAC Indigenous Theatre
Arts Alive
Sep 29, 2021 - 7 PM EDT
1 hour with no intermission.
A discussion about artistic responses to Residential Schools and their impact on survivors, families and communities as well as the responsibility artists have when connecting with this content.
Grade: 11-12, University Length: 1 hour Language: English
Tara Beagan
Tara Beagan is proud to be Ntlaka’pamux and, through her late father's side, of Irish ancestry. She is cofounder/director of ARTICLE 11 with Andy Moro. Beagan served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts from February 2011 to December 2013. During her time, NEPA continued with traditional values for guidance, had an Elder in Residence, and named and moved into the Aki Studio. Beagan has been in residence at Cahoots Theatre (Toronto), NEPA (Toronto), the National Arts Centre (Ottawa) and Berton House (Dawson City, Yukon). She is now Playwright In Residence at Prairie Theatre Exchange (Winnipeg). Seven of her 28 plays are published. Two plays have received Dora Award nominations (one win). In 2018, Beagan was a finalist in the Alberta Playwrights’ Network competition. In 2020, Honour Beat won the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama. Recent premieres include Deer Woman in Aotearoa (New Zealand), Honour Beat opening the 2018/19 season at Theatre Calgary, The Ministry of Grace at Belfry Theatre in Victoria, and Super in Plays2Perform@Home with Boca Del Lupo (Vancouver).
Kevin Loring
Kevin Loring is an accomplished Canadian playwright, actor and director and was the winner of the Governor General’s Award for English Language Drama for his outstanding play, Where the Blood Mixes in 2009. The play explores the intergenerational effects of the residential school system. It toured nationally and was presented at the National Arts Centre in 2010, when Loring was serving as the NAC’s Playwright in Residence.
A Nlaka’pamux from the Lytton First Nation in British Columbia, Loring created the Songs of the Land project in 2012 in partnership with five separate organizations in his home community. The project explores 100-year-old audio recordings of songs and stories of the N’lakap’amux People. Loring has written two new plays based on his work with the community including Battle of the Birds, about domestic violence and power abuse, and The Boy Who Was Abandoned, about youth and elder neglect.
A versatile artist and leader Loring has served as the co-curator of the Talking Stick Festival, as Artist in Residence at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, as Artistic Director of the Savage Society in Vancouver, as a Documentary Producer of Canyon War: The Untold Story, and as the Project Leader/Creator, and Director of the Songs of the Land project in his home community of Lytton First Nation.
Len Marchand, Jr.
Justice Len Marchand, Jr. is a member of the Okanagan Indian Band and grew up in Kamloops. After finishing a B.A.Sc. in chemical engineering at UBC in 1986, he worked in the oil industry for five years. He returned to law school at UVic in 1991 and graduated in 1994. He articled and practised law at Fulton & Company LLP in Kamloops from 1994-2013. His practice focused on the liability of public authorities and he appeared before all levels of court and many administrative tribunals.
Justice Marchand has dedicated a substantial portion of his career to achieving reconciliation for many Indigenous people through, among other things, advancing civil claims for abuses suffered by residential school survivors. In 2005, he helped negotiate the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class action settlement in Canadian history. He served on the Oversight Committee for the Independent Assessment Process and on the Selection Committee for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Justice Marchand was appointed to the Provincial Court of British Columbia on September 5, 2013. As a Provincial Court judge, Justice Marchand had the privilege of presiding in Cknucwentn Court in Kamloops, where, with input from Elders, healing plans are developed for Indigenous offenders. Justice Marchand was appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia on National Indigenous People’s Day, June 21, 2017. He was appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal on March 24, 2021.
Kevin Loring (Nlaka’pamux, Lytton First Nation) is a Canadian playwright, actor, and director, currently serving as the first Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre. He has received numerous accolades, including the Governor General’s Award for English-language drama and the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script for Where the Blood Mixes (2009), which also received a nomination for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. His 2019 work, Thanks for Giving, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Drama.
Loring began his studies at Cariboo College (now Thompson Rivers University) and completed his theatre education at Studio 58, Langara College. He was recognized as a distinguished alumnus by Thompson Rivers University in 2015 and later awarded an honorary doctorate in 2024. In 2017, he received the REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award from the Hnatyshyn Foundation, and in 2021, he was recognized with an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa.
As an actor, Loring’s stage credits include Saint Carmen of the Main, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and an all-Indigenous production of King Lear at the National Arts Centre in 2012. He has appeared in film and television series, including Arctic Air, Health Nutz, Pathfinder and Bones of Crows. His writing credits feature Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer, Battle of the Birds, and The Boy Who Was Abandoned. In 2023, he collaborated with true-crime author Peter Edwards on Lytton: Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire, reflecting on the community’s history and its significance to the Nlaka’pamux people after the devastating wildfire in 2021.
Loring has served as co-curator of the Talking Stick Festival, Artist in Residence at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, and current Artistic Director of Savage Society in Vancouver.
Membre de la Première Nation Nlaka’pamux de Lytton, Kevin Loring est un dramaturge, un acteur et un metteur en scène canadien; il est le premier et l’actuel directeur artistique du Théâtre autochtone du Centre national des Arts. Il a reçu diverses récompenses, notamment le Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général en théâtre de langue anglaise et le Prix Jessie-Richardson du meilleur texte original pour sa pièce Where the Blood Mixes (2009), qui a également été mise en nomination pour un prix Dora Mavor Moore de la meilleure nouvelle pièce. En 2019, sa pièce Thanks for Giving a été finaliste aux Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général dans la catégorie théâtre de langue anglaise.
Après des études au Collège Cariboo (aujourd’hui l’Université Thompson Rivers), Kevin Loring parfait sa formation au Studio 58 du Collège Langara. L’Université Thompson Rivers lui a remis un Prix de distinction en 2015, avant de lui décerner un doctorat honorifique en 2024. En 2017, il a remporté le prix en art autochtone REVEAL de la Fondation Hnatyshyn et a reçu en 2021 un doctorat honorifique de l’Université d’Ottawa.
Au théâtre, on a pu le voir dans Saint Carmen of the Main, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, et la production entièrement autochtone de King Lear au Centre national des Arts (2012). Au cinéma et à la télévision, il a joué dans Arctic Air, Health Nutz, Pathfinder (Le sang du guerrier, en VF) et Bones of Crows (L’ombre des corbeaux, en VF). Comme auteur, on lui doit notamment Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer, Battle of the Birds et The Boy Who Was Abandoned. En 2023, il a coécrit avec l’auteur spécialiste en affaires criminelles Peter Edwards, Lytton: Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire, un ouvrage qui retrace l’histoire de Lytton et de la communauté Nlaka’pamux et s’interroge sur l’avenir de la ville après l’incendie dévastateur de 2021.
Kevin Loring a œuvré comme coorganisateur du Festival Talking Stick, artiste résident au Vancouver Playhouse Theatre et directeur artistique de la Savage Society à Vancouver.
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