Red Sky's Presenting Series

Red Sky Presenting Series offers inspiring and leading Indigenous creators and companies from across Canada and around the globe, and introduces audiences to diverse Indigenous artists in theatre, dance, music, comedy and film.

Here are some highlights of our Presenting Series:

Canadian Premiere of La Nostalgia Remix

October 23, 2010

Presented by Red Sky Performance and Toronto Free Gallery

Since the early 90's, performance artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Native American conceptual artist James Luna have worked on an ongoing project titled The Shame-man meets El Mexican't, in which they challenge assumptions and lazy thinking about ethnicity and culture with a strong dose of melancholic humour and sharp-edged conceptualism. By using performance, writing, photography and video, the artists have remained flexible and relevant to our shifting culture.

Launched in 2007, La Nostalgia Remix is the last project in The Shame-man...series. The artists explore nostalgia as style, a form of resistance, and reinvention. Remix is a series of "live performances for an imaginary bar" that explore the cultural, symbolic and iconographic dimensions of nostalgia both on the Native American "rez" and in the Chicago "barrio". The performance/installation has been designed specifically for this unique site (Tranzac) and will never be performed in the same way.

James Luna (Puyukitchum/Luiseno) resides on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in North County San Diego, California. Luna's exhibition and performance experience spans 30 years. His installations have been described as transforming gallery spaces into battlefields, where the audience is confronted with the nature misinterpretations, all from an Indigenous perspective.

La Nostalgia Remix is co-presented with Native Women in the Arts, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art.

La Nostalgia Remix is supported by the James Irvine Foundation, the MAP Fund, The National Endowment for the Arts, the San Francisco Arts Commission's Native American Arts & Cultural Traditions Initiative, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.

The Tranzac Club, Main Hall
292 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
8:00pm

Tickets: $12 at the door. Advance tickets by phone +1 416 913 0461

Tono: a music concert

January 20 & 21, 2010

An evening of stunningly evocative music that connects the Indigenous cultures of Canada and Mongolia.

Featuring live music from Red Sky's highly acclaimed dance production, Tono. With Rick Sacks, and direct from Mongolia: Tuvshinjargal Damdinjav, Bat-Orshikh Bazarvaani, and Batmend Baasankhuu.

The Music Gallery
197 John Street
Toronto, Ontario
8:00 pm

Red Sky Soirée with artists direct from Mongolia

June 2, 2009

Mix, mingle and hear local traditional First Nations drummers, MorningStar Rivers Singers, and singers and musicians direct from Mongolia.

Red Sky Soirées are performance cafés that share the appreciation of Indigenous artistic expression, and stimulate the creative fire within all communities.

Native Canadian Centre (Auditorium)
16 Spadina Road
Toronto, Canada
6:30 - 8:30 pm

Red Sky Soirée with Carlos Rivera

May 20, 2009

Carlos Rivera is a dancer, teacher and choreographer of traditional and contemporary dance. Carlos has been an associate artist with Red Sky for the past nine years.

Red Sky Soirées are performance cafés that share the appreciation of Indigenous artistic expression, and stimulate the creative fire within all communities.

Free Times Cafe
320 College Street
Toronto, Ontario
6:30 pm

Red Sky Soirée with Julie Choquette

May 13, 2009

Julie Choquette performed a 15-minute piece and then spoke about what it takes to become a contortionist and an aerial acrobatic.

Red Sky Soirées are performance cafés that share the appreciation of Indigenous artistic expression, and stimulate the creative fire within all communities.

Toronto Dance Theatre
80 Winchester Street, Studio A
Toronto, Ontario
6:30 pm

Tomson Highway Flies With A Little Help With His Friends

October 27 - 29, 2006

A charming and whimsical cabaret in English, French, and Cree for all audiences.

Featuring composer and lyricist Tomson Highway on piano, mezzo soprano Patricia Cano, and saxophonist Uli Kempendorff from Berlin.

This cabaret will feature selections from The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito and selections from Highway´s musical, Rose, part of his "Rez" cycle.

Gibsone Jessop Gallery
Distillery District
Toronto, Ontario
October 27, 28, 29, 2006
8:00 pm

Native Canadian Centre
16 Spadina Road
Toronto, Ontario
October 29, 2006
2:00 pm