New production upcoming
Northern Arts and Cultural Centre premiering new show in Inuvik
Shawn Giilck
Northern News Services
Published Thursday, October 9, 2014
INUVIK
Inuvik will be one of the first communities to see the premiere of a new offering from the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC).
Christine Fellows and Sherry Boyle are bringing their show "Spell to Bring Lost Creatures Home" to Inuvik Oct. 15. - photo courtesy of Marie Coderre
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A Spell to Bring Lost Creatures Home is a collaboration between NACC, visual artist Shary Boyle and songwriter Christine Fellows, said executive director Marie Coderre in an interview Oct. 6.
She said Boyle and Fellows have been working together since 2005.
The current offering, being commissioned by NACC, isn't that unsual, Coderre said, but it's not often such premieres are performed in the outlying communities of the NWT.
"We've done this in the past but mostly in Yellowknife for commissioning," she said. "It's rare to bring them to the communities."
"This is going to be an incredible show and a great night of entertainment," said Inuvik's Peter Clarkson, a NACC organizer.
Coderre said she chased the collaboration with the artists for several months before the arrangements were finalized.
"They've won two awards and they're very high-profile visual artists in Canda," she said enthusiastically.
"But at the same time they're almost underground artists.
"It took me six months to contact them and for them to decide to create the show."
The impetus for the new show came after a telephone call, Coderre said, from a Yukon arts group raving about the duo and their work, and a spreading word of mouth about the sensational shows the duo were creating.
The show, Coderre said, mixes visual arts with music.
"It's going to trace distance and alienation, childhood and aging, imagination and resilience in the face of a changing, challenging landscape."
The story will be told in a series of vignettes seen from a window dealing with themes from the North, Coderre said.
"It's going to be a very interesting and very creative night for Inuvik," she added. "Boyle and Fellows invite audiences on a mysterious, immersive journey through a richly described visual and aural landscape."
The opening act is Terry Pamplin, who is described by Coderre as "a versatile artist, writer and performer with a lot of experience in exhibition design, production, illustration and sculpture".
He will be performing the coming of age tale of Let the Children Be, a story of a boy born to be an artist, and his questions and struggles with this as he grows.
