NORfolktales
This collaboration between the Long Point Region Conservation Area, Ian Bell, and Shadowland artists, created a site specific, community-engaged show based on local Norfolk County stories. After months of workshops, the production took place at Backus Heritage Village, and featured Indigenous teachings, twelve musicians, local artists, actors, historians, youth, adults and seniors. Opening with an Annishnaabe welcome song and creation story, we told of magic and medicine, ghosts and shipwrecks, mills and invasion, rum runners and ne’er-do-wells.
Photographs by Sabio Emerencia-Collins, Ted Warris and Shadowland
This collaboration between the Long Point Region Conservation Area, Ian Bell, and Shadowland artists, created a site specific, community-engaged show based on local Norfolk County stories. After months of workshops, the production took place at Backus Heritage Village, and featured Indigenous teachings, twelve musicians, local artists, actors, historians, youth, adults and seniors. Opening with an Annishnaabe welcome song and creation story, we told of magic and medicine, ghosts and shipwrecks, mills and invasion, rum runners and ne’er-do-wells.
Photographs by Sabio Emerencia-Collins, Ted Warris and Shadowland
