Work in progress: Nigamon/Tunai

Artists and activists Émilie Monnet and Waira Nina Jacanamijoy have been collaborating for almost ten years on solidarity-based exchanges between their respective Anishinaabeg and Inga communities—and, more broadly, with other Indigenous artists. This has inspired a new work currently in development. In Nigamon/Tunai, they explore what it means to be a good ally. At the intersection of friendship and the battle for land rights, these two women invite us to take part in a moment of sharing, founded on the living knowledge that connects Indigenous peoples from the North and the South.

Produced by Productions Onishka
Written, directed and performed by Émilie Monnet + Waira Nina
Collaboration to the directors Sarah Williams
Video Mélanie O’bomsawin
Sound Design Leonel Vasquez
Music and Sound Design Frannie Holder
Assistant Director and Stage Manager Wanderson Santos
Set Design Assistant Fernando Maya Meneses
Dramaturgy Yohayna Hernández
Sound Frédéric Auger
Outside Eye and Protocol Consultant (North) Floyd Favel 
Outside Eye and Protocol Consultant (South) Luciano Mutumbajoy
With the recorded voices of taita Luciano Mutumbajoy + Sonia Mutumbajoy + Charito Chikunque + Amanda Anik Sioui
Production Director Marie-Jeanne Beaulieu
Administration Onishka Jacinthe St-Pierre
Communications Onishka Jean-Matthieu Barraud