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Winter Solstice Celebration 2023

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Poster for the 2023 Winter Solstice celebration.

To celebrate the season and our All My R(el)ations project, Aanmitaagzi will be hosting a Winter Solstice Celebration at Big Medicine Studio on December 15th from 5 – 8 pm. The evening’s festivities will include a community dinner, art making stations, a display of works developed through our Fall & Winter Workshops, as well as presentations of songs, stories, poetry, and comedic improv. There will also be an opportunity for you to share through the open mic portion of the evening. This event is free to attend, and all are welcome.

For more information, please contact Penny or Sid at (705) 474-2227 or email aanmitaagzi@gmail.com.

House Concert & Open Mic Night – December 9th

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Poster for the House Concert & Open Mic Night on December 9, 2023

Please join us for another House Concert & Open Mic event featuring Migizi Country (Leland Bell, Dan Commanda, Tyler Dokis, and Dave Miner) on Saturday, December 9th from 1 – 4 pm. Bring your songs, stories, poems, and dancing shoes for an afternoon of music and fun! Admission is free but we will be collecting non-perishable or cash donations for the local food bank.

For more information please contact Sid Bobb at (705) 474-2227 or bobbsid@hotmail.com.

ASAP 2023 Culminating Presentation

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Poster for "Lies, Second Tries, and Butterflies" for August 25th

Please join us on August 25th @ 7 pm for the culmination of this year’s Summer Arts Program with a remounted presentation of Lies, Second Tries, and Butterflies. The original work was developed through a 3-week intensive collaboration with the participants in our 2023 Summer Arts Program, with invited guests from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre (CIT), and Aanmitaagzi’s company artists. The stories and dance pieces developed by our youth participants and artists for the first performance on August 3rd have been further developed and expanded over the last three weeks for this culminating performance.

The performance is free to attend, and all are welcome. For more information, please contact us at (705) 474-2227 or aanmitaagzi@gmail.com.

Aanmitaagzi wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the Government of Canada, through the Canada Summer Jobs Program and the Young Canada Works Program, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council for this year’s Summer Arts Program.

Lies, Second Tries, and Butterflies – Aug 3rd @7 pm

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Please join us on August 3rd @ 7 pm for Lies, Second Tries, and Butterflies, a series of stories and dance performance collaboratively created and performed by the participants in our 2023 Summer Arts Program, with invited guests from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre (CIT), and Aanmitaagzi’s company artists. The work was developed through a 3-week intensive collaboration with CIT at Big Medicine Studio.

The performance is free to attend, and all are welcome. For more information, please contact us (705) 474-2227 or aanmitaagzi@gmail.com.

Aanmitaagzi wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the Government of Canada, through the Canada Summer Jobs Program and the Young Canada Works Program, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council for this year’s Summer Arts Program.

ALL MY R(el)ATIONS opens Ice Follies 2023

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A poster for Aanmitaagzi's presentation of ALL MY R(el)ATIONS, a spontaneaous performance and celebration of community on the ice. The performance will take place on February 10, 2023 at 7 pm at Shabogesic Beach (formerly known as Marathon Beach) in North Bay, ON as part of Ice Follies' Opening Night celebrations.

Aanmitaagzi is pleased to present ALL MY R(el)ATIONS, a large-scale multi-structure installation and performance on February 10, 2023 at 7 pm. The performance will take place as part of the Opening Night festivities of Ice Follies 2023. ALL MY R(el)ATIONS is part of our multi-year project, All My R(el)ations, a multi-disciplinary project of gathering, reflecting, and dreaming that explores the themes of relationality and resource capacity.

When developing this work we looked at stories around the abundance that was present when the first person arrived at this world, contemplating this abundance and our role within it. We explored stories of the rationing of our culture, language, traditional territory, and ourselves. The installation and performances were created collaboratively with our artists and community members through our ongoing weekly winter workshops series.

We are also excited to co-present Paper Canoe Projects’ Prophecy Fog, created and performed by award winning theatre artist Jani Lauzon. The performance will take place over two nights at Big Medicine Studio on February 16 & 17 at 7 pm.

Ice Follies is a site-specific biennial festival that takes place on frozen Lake Nipissing (Nbisiing) near Shabogesic Beach (Shaabgiizhig Jiigbiik). The 2023 theme “Thin Ice” (Nbagzi Mkwam) looks at our shifting landscapes and communities, including our changing relationships with our environment and each other. This is Ice Follies’ 10th Edition, and they are celebrating this year with free performances, large-scale art installations, community engaged artworks and activities, and a curated look-back at the history of this one-of-a-kind festival.

For more information, please visit www.icefollies.ca or contact Aanmitaagzi at aanmitaagzi@gmail.com or (705) 474-2227.

*Note: Shabogesic Beach was formerly known as Marathon Beach.