Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools

A concert and a conversation, Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools is the meeting place of two people, and the North and South of our country. Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and queer theatre-maker Evalyn Parry met on an Arctic expedition from Iqaluit to Greenland. Now sharing a stage, these two powerful storytellers map new territory together in a work that gives voice and body to the histories, culture, and climate we’ve inherited, and asks how we reckon with these sharp tools.

In the Inuktitut language, when a knife is dull, it is said to “have no face.” The word “Kiinalik” translates to mean the knife is sharp — or, “it has a face.” 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.

Created by Evalyn Parry, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Erin Brubacher, and Elysha Poirier with Cris Derksen | A GCTC and National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre co-presentation of a Buddies in Bad Times Theatre production

Tickets : $39 to $55

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Phone: (613) 236-5196
In person at venue boxoffice. – 1233 Wellington St. W. (at Holland)

Date & Time:

Tuesday – Friday: 8pm
Saturday: 4pm and 8:30pm
Sunday: 2pm

Venue : Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre – The Great Canadian Theatre Company
1233 Wellington St W, Ottawa

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