Elapultiek-“we are looking towards”

ELAPULTIEK (ehl-ah-bool-dee-egg)

Performing Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Place: Annapolis Valley First Nation

Elapultiek (“we are looking towards”) is a 2-person play written by Bear River First Nation (L’sitkuk) playwright Shalan Joudry. Commissioned by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre, the show was a huge success as an outdoor performance last summer at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts.
Now, Elapultiek begins its journey as a touring indoor production, continuing its effort to inspire acts of Reconciliation. 

In the time of Idle No More, a young Mi’kmaw drum singer and a Euro-Nova Scotian biologist meet at dusk each day to count a population of endangered Chimney Swifts. As the relationship deepens over time, they struggle with their differing views of the world. Each ‘count night’ reveals a deeper complexity of connection to land, history, and ecology, and of reconciliation on a personal level.

Actors Shalan Joudry and Matthew Lumley. Photo credit Malachy Schwartz