Candace Brunette-Debassige

Researcher | Storyteller | Speaker

Arts


Performing Arts

Flight: A play-in-progress

Situated on a fictitious university campus on Turtle Island, Flight explores two Indigenous women leaders' journey as they set out to transform the colonial nature of the academy using policy. In this paradoxical world, Weesakeechahk (in goose form) shows up with a niskak (goose) aunty trio who help guide the women and have some fun in the process. Moving in between the Sky world and Earth plane, the story takes place on two fictitious university campuses - the University of Manitou and the University of Canada during the fall of 2017 and spring of 2018. Other scenes are staged during goose flight with bodies suspended in mid air along with the blending of song, image and movement.

Poetry and Writing

Brunette, C. (2008). Daisy’s Hips. Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought. Winter issue. 48-49.
Brunette, C. (2008). Acorn Offerings. Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought. Winter issue. 50.
Brunette, C. (2008). Echoes of Tamarack. In Marilyn Dumont (Ed.) Initiations: A Selection of Young Native Writing. Theytus Books. 65-66.