We’re happy to announce our Creative Residency Artist, Carmen Alvis, who will be collaborating with Carlos Rivera and Kéita Fournier-Pelletier this week on her new full-length play And Then They Came. The play explores the roles of Two-Spirit people in the early days of the Red River Métis. This movement exploration will include Anishinaabe gender terms, ancestral connection, and Métis resistance to develop the physical script for this new play.

Carmen Alvis (she\her) is a Turtle Mountain Michif (Métis) artist based in Tkarón:to with Chippewa, Irish and English ancestors. She is one of the leaders of lemonTree creations, manidoons collective, and AdHoc Assembly, and is on the board of the Dancers Of Damelahamid.  Carmen has created and toured queer and Indigenous performance across Turtle Island (North America) including venues in Coast Salish territory, Mi’kma’ki, and Treaty 1, 3, 6 and 7 territories.

This residency is offered in association with The Theatre Centre. We’re grateful for their generous support of this project.