Radio Aluna Teatro

“We’re all treaty people. I do believe that, because all of our ancestors signed this agreement together. So it’s our responsibility, it’s not a one sided-agreement, to learn about the treaties and to be able to speak about them.”  - Falen Johnson   In this Conversatorio, we present a discussion on performance, interpretation, and making treaty from the 2014 RUTAS International Multi-Arts Festival. Originally part of a festival conference event called Restaging Treaty: Embodied Memories, Written Records, and Living Archives, the event started with a reading of a new play commission by Falen Johnson on the subject of Treaty 9, and was followed by this panel discussion.   In order of voices you will hear, the panelists are:   Sasha Kovacs - artist, performance scholar, core/founding member of Ars Mechanica, and Ph.D. candidate at University of Toronto. Reverend Grafton Anton - Wolf Clan from the Onaida of the Thames First Nation, former Elder in Residence at the University of Toronto’s First Nation House,