Artists announced for this summer’s Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival in Nogojiwanong-Peterborough

Third annual festival features both Indoor and outdoor Indigenous performances from June 21 to 25 at Trent University.

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A Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival favourite, Tiger Will Mason is returning to perform at the third annual festival in summer 2023. An Upper Cayuga/Mohawk actor and musician who has been onstage for more than half his life as an underground folk, rock, native rock, and country rock musician, Mason will perform "Songs and Stories of a Modern Mohawk Continued". He is one of the eight Indigenous artists and groups performing plays, dance, and music at the third annual festival from June 21 to 25 at Trent University. (Photo: Tiger Will Mason / Facebook)
A Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival favourite, Tiger Will Mason is returning to perform at the third annual festival in summer 2023. An Upper Cayuga/Mohawk actor and musician who has been onstage for more than half his life as an underground folk, rock, native rock, and country rock musician, Mason will perform "Songs and Stories of a Modern Mohawk Continued". He is one of the eight Indigenous artists and groups performing plays, dance, and music at the third annual festival from June 21 to 25 at Trent University. (Photo: Tiger Will Mason / Facebook)

The Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival is returning for its third year in June, with performances taking place this year over five days in both indoor and outdoor locations at Trent University in Nogojiwanong-Peterborough.

The first Indigenous fringe festival in the world, the Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival was founded by a collective including Joeann Argue, Lee Bolton, Drew Hayden Taylor, and Muriel Miguel.

The inaugural festival was originally scheduled for summer 2020 but was postponed until 2021 because of the pandemic. For the 2021 festival, organizers had planned to present performances to small audiences at several outdoor locations on Trent University’s East Bank campus. However, due to provincial public health restrictions for performing arts at the time, the festival became a drive-in event. For the 2022 festival, performances took place almost exclusively at outdoor locations.

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This year’s festival will ceremonially open on Indigenous Peoples Day on Wednesday, June 21st, with Indigenous artists and groups performing plays, dance, and music from Wednesday until Sunday, June 25th at both indoor and outdoor locations on the East Bank of the Trent University campus, in and around Enwayaang/Gzowski College.

The performers at this year’s festival, chosen by lottery as is fringe festival tradition, are:

  • Pesch Nepoose’s “The Bridge” by the Centre for Indigenous Theatre of Toronto (play)
  • “Estrange(ment)” by Minjimendan of North Bay (play)
  • “An Indigenous Play” by Juicebox of Winnipeg (play)
  • “The Cave that Hummed a Song” by The Cave of Toronto (play)
  • “Nenookaasi’s: Mind of a Messenger” by Nenookaasi of Toronto (play)
  • “Reclaiming in Motion” by Kelli Marshall/Liz Osawamick of Peterborough (dance)
  • “Abatimbo” by Maison Mere Artists of Burundi (dance)
  • “Songs and Stories of a Modern Mohawk Continued” by Tiger Will Mason of Ottawa (music)

Tickets will be available in April. For more information about the 2023 Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival, visit www.indigenousfringefest.ca.

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