{"id":14906,"date":"2023-08-09T16:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/?post_type=event&#038;p=14906"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:35:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:35:52","slug":"omaagomaan","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/event\/omaagomaan\/","title":{"rendered":"omaagomaan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #fa5c4f;\">Waawaate Fobister<\/span><\/strong>, a proud Anishnaabe from Grassy Narrows First Nation, is an actor, dancer, playwright, choreographer, instructor, and producer. In their work <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #fa5c4f;\"><i>Omaagomaan<\/i><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> multiple <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dora-award-winning artist uses sound, movement, dance, and storytelling to embody Omaagomaan, a non-binary, two-spirit being who, in Anishinaabe cosmology and knowledge, represents the earth as well as the poisonous toxins humans have pushed into it. Omaagomaan themselves incorporates both beauty (onishishin = beautiful) and ugliness (maanaadizi = ugly). Fobister connects this collision of the beautiful and the ugly to the resilience of the Anishinaabe people, as they stitch back together fractured landscapes poisoned by mercury.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Talkback on February 9th after the performance hosted by Dominique Ireland.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Post-show discussion in English and ASL.<br \/>\nTwo ASL interpreters will also be present before and after the show.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n[vc_toggle title=&#8221;credits&#8221;]\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interpreter: Waawaate Fobister<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Costume Design: Sage Paul<br \/>\n<\/span>Lighting Design : Pierre Lavoie<br \/>\nRehearsal Director: Carlos Rivera Martinez<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sound Design: Marc Merilainen<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Original Direction: Troy Emery Twigg<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2022 Remount Direction: Patti Shaughnessy<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anishinaabe and Clown Consultant: Don Kavanaugh<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">[\/vc_toggle]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14908,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14906","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","season-fire","event-category-dance","event-category-performance","event-category-theatre"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Omaagomaan &mdash; MAI | Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/event\/omaagomaan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Omaagomaan &mdash; MAI | Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Waawaate Fobister, a proud Anishnaabe from Grassy Narrows First Nation, is an actor, dancer, playwright, choreographer, instructor, and producer. 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