Messages on Doors: Abridged

Produced by The Fox Queen. Presented by the Gabriola Arts Council.

A live blending of storytelling, personal experience, and performance art.

Join us in person this Oct 5, 2024 for the public feast and artistic responses to the Messages on Doors online workshop in honour of The Big Ideas.

Messages on Doors is a community engagement workshop, live art presentation and feast where members of the public received a gift packaged to connect and create hand-made works of art through a free artist directed creative process.

In the spirit of reconciliation, Indigenous and non-Indigenous community participants work together to create messages shared as a live celebration performance on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Snuneymuxw peoples.

The Big Ideas

• We are responsible to take action against the Historical and Present day dark messages of hate towards Indigenous peoples.

• In these times of Reconciliation, we need to connect more.

Values: Love. Truth. Listening. Survival. Joy.

Artistic Lead — Tsatassaya White

Tsatassaya White, B.A. is a curator, event planner and community mobilizer. She is a member of the Snuneymuxw First Nation (Coast Salish) and also of Earthquake House of the Hamilton family of Hupacasath (Nuu-chah-nulth Nations). She carries cultural knowledge, roots her work in traditional protocols and has a vast network of community connections. Recently, Tsatassaya curated “Qwuyulush utl’ Swyalana” a day of Indigenous dance at InFrinGinG Dance Festival (July 2019) at Maffeo Sutton Park, produced and directed “huulth-huultha 2020” a dance film in response to the pandemic, and curated the inaugural Sum̓sháthut (Sun) Festival, an on-line Indigenous cultural festival, and co-produced with Nanaimo’s Crimson Coast Dance Society. 

Artistic Lead — The Fox Queen

Progressive Theatre Collective, The Fox Queen (FQ) was formed during the early days of Covid 19, due to a strong desire to connect, inquire, dismantle, (re)align artistic practices, and forge new decolonized ways of theatre making and creation. The Fox Queen is creative collaborators Tamara McCarthy and Dave Mott.  These two white artists of settler descent have over 40 years of combined theatre creation, direction, performance, physical training, devising, leadership, independent producing, mentorship, presentation and teaching in the arts sector.  The Fox Queen ethos rests solidly inside the founding shared values of Humour, Love, Communication, Listening, Respect, Healing, Song, and Collaboration. Tamara and Dave are focused on Community, Responsibility, Survival, Anti-Racist Practice and the Present Moment. Our values lead and define us.  FQ exists in the present moment, self reflecting and focusing on the heartbeats around us; we are flexible, continually responding to the evolving needs of the people on our teams and the communities with whom we engage.

MOD: Abridged Core Artists

The Community Members

Ali Hosein, Anna Paletta, Anne Poschmann, Ardyth Cooper, David Lightly, Dinah D, Doug Smith, Joyce Lee, Michelle Smith, Nicole Armstrong, Roweena Bacchus & Tobi Elliott

The Team

Produced by The Fox Queen

Technical Direction by Allan Frisk

Event Details

Public Celebration and Feast - October 5, 2024

Gabriola Community Hall

2200 South Rd, Gabriola, BC V0R 1X7

Complimentary food and soft drinks will be served starting at 5:45pm until resources run out.

To book a FREE Ticket - please follow this link

EVENT TIMELINE

Protocol Welcome & Prayer

Dinner

Core Artist Presentations

Music and Dancing

This is a free event. Donations gladly accepted.

Do you have barriers to access Messages on Doors?

Please contact us to discuss with The Fox Queen if our team are able to meet them.

Gabriola Community Hall 2200 South Rd, Gabriola, BC V0R 1X7