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A story from the lake

Premiere: Memorial Park Mississauga Waterfront Festival  June 2017 

Images by Gabriella Banks, Claire Lemiski, Rosemary Snell, Nakita Photography, Ken Snell and Noelle Hamlyn

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Performers Colleen Snell and Andrew Gaboury

Home

Home is a multidisciplinary, site-specific reimagining of Port Credit’s nautical past. The production follows a captain and crew as they experience adventure, recount tales and explore the shores of the Great Lakes through music, dance and theatre.


Home was in part, a response to Canada’s 150th anniversary. Our collaborators visited Heritage Mississauga, met citizens, read local literature and engaged Heritage Mississauga Historian Matthew Wilkinson to develop a story based in local folklore, historical figures and key historic events. We drew inspiration from these sources to design our set based on the schooners of Port Credit’s stone-hooking trade, and our story, which drew on characters such as “Mad Cap” from Port Credit’s past. Home incorporated traditional as well as contemporary song and dance forms. We created a production seeking to embody a past, and contextualize the present...


Where have we been?  Where are we going? 

Creative Team

Home was commissioned by the Mississauga Waterfront Festival (MWF)

Original Cast: Miquelon Rodriguez, Andrew Gaboury, Kristen Carcone, Colleen Snell, Philippe Poirier.

Costume & Set: Noelle Hamlyn designed and created our phenomenal mobile ship set.

Original Story: Andrew Gaboury. 

With Thanks 

The Mississauga Waterfront Festival, City of Mississauga, the folks at Clarke Hall, Ken Snell the Builder, Great Art for Great Lakes-Waterlutions, Frog in Hand volunteers.  

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We are privileged to work, live and play on the traditional territories of the Anishinabek, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat peoples - Treaty 13A territory. This territory is included in the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, which is an agreement to peaceably share and care for the land and its resources. We understand the standard of living we enjoy here in Canada is a result of thousands of years of stewardship by the original inhabitants and the inequitable taking of the land from them. We acknowledge that in order to have reconciliation, we must first understand truth; we commit to move forward in an effort to achieve both. Our CoFounders, Colleen and Noelle, are settlers from Welsh, Ukrainian and English roots, and their heritage is but one piece of the tapestry that is Frog in Hand. Frog in Hand is a collective of artists with diverse backgrounds and histories, heritages and family stories of their own. 

 

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