TILMCOM, The Indigenous Literacy Manufacturing Company presents SpiritS...

Good day , holy Father on your heavenly throne. how glorious you are in giving us another day,  the sacredness of time in your hands  , allowing us to come back to you in all our imperfections.  Protect   us in this increasingly dangerous world, we are at your mercy  , living within your grace,  as we move forward  in your time. Miigweech. Amen

WARNING Following  not for children. Younger teens with parental  guidance. Play contains suggestive words pertaining to imaginary depictions of history in the late 1700s. Fifteen years after that time of  absolutism, revolutionary battles and resistance. The playwright shares an imaginary rendition of the imprisonment of inmates in an Asylum in the 1800s based on the assassination of revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday.

TILMCOM, The Indigenous Literacy Manufacturing Company presents Former Summer   Students  of Spirit Song Native Theatre Summer Program 1988.  Director of Summer Program, Sadie Worn Staff. Drama Instructors Diane Browne Donald Morin

Instructors Assistants & Actors Sam Bob Aaron Pointe  

Apologies on not showing Student Names, Lost in Time 

"Marat/Sade" is a two-act play written by German-Swedish author Peter Weiss, first performed in 1964. Set in the Charenton asylum in 1808, the play portrays an imaginative reenactment of the assassination of revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday, occurring exactly fifteen years after the event.

As young instructors back then, we were  not sure of why the Director wanted this play, for young indigenous students. But now in hindsight, I often thought, was it because of the residential school repercussions on the indigenous families at times , inter-generational trauma, and all that was part of the tragic  results of Canada's Failed Assimilation polices

Good day all, I had the honetech capturing software for some time now, but  when I updated to Honetech 7,  the green demarcation appeared as I told many early in  later captures of footage.  Well, in order to get RIO ISLAND  up for Warren Arcand, I wanted to resolve that demarcation issue, so off I went to Google land ha ha. But I did find A copy of Honetech 5 on an Archival site online. SO I Was able to download it , install it on my HP and the demarcation is gone. I thank the lord for that :-) So now capturing footage for a potential redo of a show, and other works. 

So here we raise our hands up to old technology. As we were able to  record this show from 1988, when I was a SFU student. Great talent here. I am working now on the following show Sea Street, which was re-written into a larger cast play for this summer program. 

Sea Street was commissioned by the Surrey Teachers Association  when they contacted me about doing a show on Native issues. It was 1985, I just did a strong role in The Young Poundmaker by playwright Ernie Carefoot for Hub Theatre in Saskatoon.  I read for the part in a lady Director's house in East Van,  got the part, they flew me to Saskatoon, where we rehearsed for eight days to be ready for a week run of a new play. It star Gordon Tootoosis, Tantoo Cardinal, myself, Carol Greyeyes, Patriarch Victor ThunderChild, ( who Met Diefenbaker,) and  other talented actors.  I was unsure of my ability to do such a play, but it did not stop me, A young university student, I  wrote and performed it as a one man show , directed by Colin MacPherson.. It was remounted again in 1987 for The Indigenous World Conference as a two person show with actually Tracy McCollister, I believe, who was amazing. Again Colin MacPherson directed this work. And finally in1988, it became a larger cast play which will be up shortly. This stream preceded Sea Street https://youtu.be/FoN5ZIbQ6go