Red Sky Performance is thrilled to unveil an artistically ambitious and compelling production based on Sandra Laronde’s award-winning debut novel, She Holds Up the Stars.

For the first-time ever, Red Sky will create a transformative experience for all ages combining life-sized puppets, movement, storytelling, theatre, visual screen design, and orchestral music.

She Holds Up the Stars, is about a mesmerizing journey of a young Indigenous girl who returns home to live on the rez and unexpectedly bonds with a wild horse, cruelly broken by a rancher and his son. As tensions rise, she navigates a challenging world and discovers an inner strength that connects her to home, land, and heart.

The major themes explore belonging and identity, ecological integrity and knowledge, truth and reconciliation, and an inspired future.

She Holds Up the Stars has received the coveted Kirkus Star which marks books of exceptional merit, was named as one of 2022 Best of Canadian Books for Young Adults by CBC Books, won the 2023 Horace Mann Upstander Award, joint winner of 2023 Best Books for Kids & Teens, Canadian Children’s Book Center, and was nominated for the 2024 Manitoba Young People’s Choice Awards.

Commissioned with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in association with TO Live.

Coming April 13 – 19, 2026