Photo by Scott Gorman

For their 100th Anniversary season, Hart House Theatre opened with a limited run of Encounters at the “Edge of the Woods.” Curated and Directed by Indigenous educator and artist, Jill Carter, this presentation utilizes the Indigenous practice of story weaving to address the uncomfortable history of Canadian settlement.

This is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous creator/performers. In sharing and dramatizing their own personal stories, they strive to shed light upon the legacy of colonialism, from both the traumatic Indigenous experience and from a newly empathetic, conciliatory settler perspective.   Continue Reading