Aanmitaagzi in NY for Global Indigenous Theatre Festival

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Poster for "All My R(el)ations" presented by Aanmitaagzi Story Makers for the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival in New York.

Aanmitaagzi is back in New York for the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival taking place from October 30 – November 7, 2026 at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club as part of Spiderwoman Theater’s 50th Anniversary celebrations. The celebrations are being organized by Spiderwoman Theater in collaboration with La MaMa and Loose Change Productions. During the festival, we will be presenting a workshop on October 29th as well as a new performance, All My R(el)ations, which is part of the larger All My R(el)ations project. Full details can be found below.

WORKSHOP INFORMATION

Art in Community with Aanmitaagzi
La MaMa Community Arts Space (74A East 4th St, New York, NY)
October 29th from 3:00-5:30pm

This workshop is aimed at exploring, developing, and practicing cultural continuity through arts that draw from historic Indigenous, traditional, and contemporary arts practices. Participants will be introduced to Aanmitaagzi’s methodology of carrying forward indigenous knowledge through a community-engaged arts practice. Through movement and dance, theatre and visual arts, participants will explore the art of animating individual stories grounded in community.


SHOW INFORMATION

All My R(el)ations
The Downstairs at La MaMa (66 East 4th Street, New York, NY)
November 4 – 6 at 8:30 pm
Runtime: 45 minutes

All My R(el)ations (AMR) is a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project of gathering, reflecting, and dreaming. It explores the values of reciprocity, sharing, and relationality, and how to support healthy, thriving individuals within and through community. It looks at the ways communities have been negatively impacted and how we can recall, remember, and re-implement Indigenous knowledge and values in our everyday lives. It celebrates resourcefulness, creativity, care, and compassion for others in times of need. This project seeks to move the (el) from silent to vibrant, to move from all my rations to all my relations. It is a call for a return to good relations with all.

The All My R(el)ations performance and installation for the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival include stories and works from professional artists and community. It is built on a foundation of over three hundred story-telling luncheons with our elders, four summer intensives with our community’s youth, and numerous weekly workshops and intensives that have taken place over the last few years. Celebrating a return to community, this multi-disciplinary dance theatre project looks at who we are in the face of adversity and who we hope to be.

CREDITS

All My R(el)ations was created by Aanmitaagzi’s Lead Artists, Guest Artists, & Community

Director/Choreographic Lead
Penny Couchie

Co-creators/Performers
Sid Bobb
Penny Couchie
Ouske Couchie-Bobb
Imelda Villalon

Stage Manager/Lighting Designer
Jennifer Bolton

Installation/Set/Costume
Sherry Guppy

Production Assistants
Georgia Mianskum
North Sutherland-Spence
Autumn Hookimaw


Poster from La MaMa for All My R(el)ations.

House Concert & Open Mic on September 12th

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Poster for the house concert and open mic at Big Medicine Studio on September 12, 2026.We’re hosting another House Concert and Open Mic session on Saturday, September 12th from 1 to 5 pm. Featuring Dan Commanda and Migizi Country, the afternoon will also include songs, stories, and spoken word performances from invited guests and audience members.

Pre-registration is not required, but is appreciated if you plan on taking a turn at the mic.
Light refreshments will be served and all are welcome.

For more information, or to sign up for the open mic session, please contact Sid Bobb at (705) 474-2227 or aanmitaagzi@gmail.com.

ASAP 2026 presentation “Biskane” takes place August 20th

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Poster for Biskane, the culminating performance for the 2026 Summer Arts Program.

Biskane
Culminating performance for the 2026 Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program

August 20, 2026 at 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm)
Big Medicine Studio
161 Couchie Memorial Dr, Nipissing First Nation

Aanmitaagzi and the participants of the 2026 Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program are pleased to invite the public to Big Medicine Studio for Biskane (it ignites), the culminating performance for this year’s program. The artists and youth participants have been working hard since the beginning of July to develop and prepare for this presentation through singing, dancing, regalia making, storytelling, visual explorations, attending pow wows, participating in Spiderwoman Theater’s Block Party Pow Wow in Brooklyn, and engaging in other arts activities. The collaboratively created and performed work is an investigation and expression of indigenous dance and storytelling that has grown out of their experiences over the summer and the stories and knowledge they carry with them. The presentation is free to attend, and all are welcome.

Biskane is co-created and performed by:

Lead Artists – Sid Bobb, Katie Couchie, Penny Couchie, Sherry Guppy, Darren Nakogee, with Special Guests Olivia Shortt and Animikiikwe Couchie-Waukey

Program Participants – Albany Benson, Harvey Campeau, Ouske Couchie-Bobb, Lukas Driedger, Janiah Etherington, Autumn Hookimaw, Mya Katt, Waseskwan Linklater, William McGrath, Georgia Mianskum, Tayton Mianskum, Malia Mizzi, Zaidyn Mizzi, Niibin Nakogee, Finnegan Rice, Lance Sarazin, North Spence, Nate Thomas, and Jodan Wesley.

Guest Facilitators – Dan Commanda, Eva Couchie, and Clayton Windatt

What is the Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program?

The Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program (ASAP) is an annual 8-week intensive in indigenous performing, visual, and traditional arts. Now in its nineteenth year, the program gives indigenous youth the opportunity to learn, share, express and create alongside Aanmitaagzi’s professional multi-disciplinary arts team, guest artists, and community-members in a collaborative, inter-generational, and welcoming space.

How can I get more information?

For more information, please call (705) 474-2227 or email aanmitaagzi@gmail.com.

Aanmitaagzi wishes to thank the Government of Canada through the Canada Council for the Arts and the Canada Summer Jobs Program, the Ontario Government through the Ontario Arts Council, Mushkegowuk Employment & Training Services, Moose Cree Training & Employment Unit, the North Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre’s Apatisiwin Program, and the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference for generously supporting the 2026 Summer Arts Program.

 

Aanmitaagzi participating in Spiderwoman Theater’s Block Party Pow Wow

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Poster for Spiderwoman Theater's Block Party taking place on August 15, 2026.

Aanmitaagzi is very excited to be invited to participate in Spiderwoman Theater’s Block  Party Pow Wow taking place on DeGraw St in Brooklyn on August 15, 2026.

The first of several festivities honouring Spiderwoman Theater’s 50th Anniversary, the Block Party will be an afternoon of art, culture, heritage, and neighbourhood unity curated by Josephine Tarrant.

Spiderwoman Theater’s founders, the Miguel sisters, chose DeGraw Street between Court and Smith Streets to honour the vibrant Native community that called Boerum Hill, Red Hook, and Cobble Hill home in the 1930s through the ’50s, including Mohawks from Kahnewake and the Western tribes. In addition to their anniversary milestone, they’ll also be celebrating Spiderwoman Theater co-founder Gloria Miguel’s 100th birthday!

Spiderwoman is excited to host Indigenous artists like Aanmitaagzi, the SilverCloud Singers, and MC Louis Mofsie of the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers. They will also have neighbourhood vendors, speakers, and excerpts of Spiderwoman’s work including Muriel Tarrant’s ‘Tipi Tales from the Stoop’.

This event is free to the public, no reservations required!

Please visit Spiderwoman Theater’s website or Facebook page for more information.

Aanmitaagzi & ON THE EDGE Fringe team up for “First Draft”

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Documentation from the presentation of First Draft at Big Medicine Studio.

On August 11, 2026 from 6:30 – 8:00 pm, Aanmitaagzi Story Makers presented First Draft as part of ON THE EDGE Fringe Festival’s 2026 Duality program.

First Draft was a series of works-in-progress presentations by Aanmitaagzi Story Makers and the youth participants of their 2026 Summer Arts Program. Ranging from storytelling, spoken word, and singing to dance, shadow theatre, and improv, this informal night of sharing brought folks together for creativity, connection, and community. Artists from the Fringe festival were also invited to share a little about their shows, taking place at the Capitol Centre from August 12th – 16th.

Many thanks to everyone that came out to the event, and to the ON THE EDGE Fringe Festival for programming and supporting this presentation.