On the Road with Theatre Projects Manitoba

This series of 4 radio plays takes 4 stories inspired by the land in between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba and travels the sound waves into YOUR ears. SS Keenora, Arborg Fire, Colorado Low, and Stories From Our Elders were performed and recorded with community members and performers who voice the characters and build a soundtrack from household items!

Colorado Low is conceived and written by Marsha Rasmussen Knight and Jo MacDonald and directed by Marsha Rasmussen Knight. It features performances and live foley by Rylen Campbell-Stovell, Sue Green, barb janes, Sage Stoyanowski and Harvey Wasuita. Photo by Shayna Pollock.

A Foley Full Community Radio Series was produced & presented by Theatre Projects Manitoba for Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail 2021. It was recorded safely at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg, MB in the summer of 2021.

Theatre Projects Manitoba creates and connects on Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 Territory and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples for their traditional stewardship of this land.

Theatre Projects Manitoba is a professional theatre company with a 30 year history of producing plays that are catered to our local audience, animating stories of interest to Manitobans and supporting local artists and communities. Follow us on socials to see how you can tune in!

Instagram: @tpmwinnipeg

Facebook: facebook.com/TPMwinnipeg

Twitter: @TPMwinnipeg

And check out our YouTube as well to watch performances and digital content from Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail - Theatre Projects Manitoba - YouTube

Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail tour is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba 150, RBC Emerging Artists Project, and Roll with It Rentals.

This series of 4 radio plays takes 4 stories inspired by the land in between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba and travels the sound waves into YOUR ears. SS Keenora, Arborg Fire, Colorado Low, and Stories From Our Elders were performed and recorded with community members and performers who voice the characters and build a soundtrack from household items!

Stories From Our Elders is conceived and written by Marsha Rasmussen Knight and Jo MacDonald and directed by Marsha Rasmussen Knight. It features performances and live foley by Rylen Campbell-Stovell, Sue Green, barb janes, Sage Stoyanowski and Harvey Wasuita. Photo by Shayna Pollock.

A Foley Full Community Radio Series was produced & presented by Theatre Projects Manitoba for Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail 2021. It was recorded safely at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg, MB in the summer of 2021.

Theatre Projects Manitoba creates and connects on Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 Territory and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples for their traditional stewardship of this land.

Theatre Projects Manitoba is a professional theatre company with a 30 year history of producing plays that are catered to our local audience, animating stories of interest to Manitobans and supporting local artists and communities. Follow us on socials to see how you can tune in!

Instagram: @tpmwinnipeg

Facebook: facebook.com/TPMwinnipeg

Twitter: @TPMwinnipeg

And check out our YouTube as well to watch performances and digital content from Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail - Theatre Projects Manitoba - YouTube

Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail tour is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba 150, RBC Emerging Artists Project, and Roll with It Rentals.

This series of 4 radio plays takes 4 stories inspired by the land in between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba and travels the sound waves into YOUR ears. S.S. Keenora, Arborg Fire, Colorado Low, and Stories From Our Elders were performed and recorded with community members and performers who voice the characters and build a soundtrack from household items!

S.S. Keenora is conceived and written by Marsha Rasmussen Knight and Jo MacDonald and directed by Marsha Rasmussen Knight. It features performances and live foley by Rylen Campbell-Stovell, Sue Green, barb janes, Sage Stoyanowski and Harvey Wasuita. Photo by Shayna Pollock.

A Foley Full Community Radio Series was produced & presented by Theatre Projects Manitoba for Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail 2021. It was recorded safely at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg, MB in the summer of 2021.

Theatre Projects Manitoba creates and connects on Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 Territory and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples for their traditional stewardship of this land.

Theatre Projects Manitoba is a professional theatre company with a 30 year history of producing plays that are catered to our local audience, animating stories of interest to Manitobans and supporting local artists and communities. Follow us on socials to see how you can tune in!

Instagram: @tpmwinnipeg

Facebook: facebook.com/TPMwinnipeg

Twitter: @TPMwinnipeg

And check out our YouTube as well to watch performances and digital content from Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail - Theatre Projects Manitoba - YouTube

Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail tour is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba 150, RBC Emerging Artists Project, and Roll with It Rentals.

This series of 4 radio plays takes 4 stories inspired by the land in between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba and travels the sound waves into YOUR ears. SS Keenora, Arborg Fire, Colorado Low, and Stories From Our Elders were performed and recorded with community members and performers who voice the characters and build a soundtrack from household items!

Arborg Fire is conceived and written by Marsha Rasmussen Knight and Jo MacDonald and directed by Marsha Rasmussen Knight. It features performances and live foley by Rylen Campbell-Stovell, Sue Green, barb janes, Sage Stoyanowski and Harvey Wasuita. Photo by Shayna Pollock.

A Foley Full Community Radio Series was produced & presented by Theatre Projects Manitoba for Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail 2021. It was recorded safely at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg, MB in the summer of 2021. 

Theatre Projects Manitoba creates and connects on Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 Territory and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples for their traditional stewardship of this land.

Theatre Projects Manitoba is a professional theatre company with a 30 year history of producing plays that are catered to our local audience, animating stories of interest to Manitobans and supporting local artists and communities. Follow us on socials to see how you can tune in!

Instagram: @tpmwinnipeg

Facebook: facebook.com/TPMwinnipeg

Twitter: @TPMwinnipeg

And check out our YouTube as well to watch performances and digital content from Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail - Theatre Projects Manitoba - YouTube

Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail tour is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba 150, RBC Emerging Artists Project, and Roll with It Rentals.

On the Road with us this week is Marsha Rasmussen Knight! We chat about teaching theatre during the past year, radio-dramas, foley, reading scripts and more! This episode was recorded much earlier in 2021 - Marsha has partnered with Jo MacDonald to write 4 radio-plays with stories inspired by the 4 host communities of Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail: Selkirk, Eriksdale, Riverton and Arborg. She collaborates with community members to bring these scripts to life! You can check out some of this work on TPM's YouTube, and stay tuned for these shows later this fall! 

Theatre Projects Manitoba creates and connects on Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 Territory and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples for their traditional stewardship of this land.

Theatre Projects Manitoba TPM is a professional theatre company with a 30 year history of producing plays that are catered to our local audience, animating stories of interest to Manitobans and supporting local artists and communities. Follow us on socials to see how you can tune in!

Instagram: @tpmwinnipeg

Facebook: facebook.com/TPMwinnipeg

Twitter: @TPMwinnipeg

And check out our YouTube as well to watch performances from Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail LIVE! Theatre Projects Manitoba - YouTube

Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail tour is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba 150, RBC Emerging Artists Project, and Roll with It Rentals.

On the Road with us this week is Joseph Pilapil of @thetravellingsignpainters - we chat about creative process, inspirations, swing dance and more! This episode was recorded pretty early on in 2021 - Joseph has since completed the mural in Selkirk, MB which you can see HERE and he has collaborated with schools and community in St. Laurent, Arborg and Riverton and will be painting murals in each of these communities this fall!

Theatre Projects Manitoba creates and connects on Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 Territory and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples for their traditional stewardship of this land.

Theatre Projects Manitoba TPM is a professional theatre company with a 30 year history of producing plays that are catered to our local audience, animating stories of interest to Manitobans and supporting local artists and communities. Follow us on socials to see how you can tune in!

Instagram: @tpmwinnipeg

Facebook: facebook.com/TPMwinnipeg

Twitter: @TPMwinnipeg

And check out our YouTube as well to watch performances from Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail LIVE including Joseph! Joseph Pilapil Chautauqua Spotlight - YouTube

Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail tour is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba 150, RBC Emerging Artists Project, and Roll with It Rentals.

Welcome back to On the Road, after a brief hiatus of ACTUALLY being on the road recording and creating content as part of Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail - we have more conversations coming at you, including this one with community member from Arborg, Manitoba and artist, Sage Stoyanowski! We chat about learning, connecting and collaborating over digital platforms, percussion and celebrating community spirit through artful events!

Theatre Projects Manitoba creates and connects on Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 Territory and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples for their traditional stewardship of this land.

Theatre Projects Manitoba TPM is a professional theatre company with a 30 year history of producing plays that are catered to our local audience, animating stories of interest to Manitobans and supporting local artists and communities. Follow us on socials to see how you can tune in!

Instagram: @tpmwinnipeg

Facebook: facebook.com/TPMwinnipeg

Twitter: @TPMwinnipeg

And check out our YouTube as well to watch performances from Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail LIVE including Sage! Theatre Projects Manitoba - YouTube

Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail tour is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba 150, RBC Emerging Artists Project, and Roll with It Rentals.

This week we chat with Shayna Pollock about industrial design, living in Selkirk and karaoke! It's also the first time Tanner and Shayna safely met after talking back and forth since last year! Check out Shayna's website: shaynapollock.com 

With years of self directed art and design experience Shayna Pollock started off sketching and painting still lifes and portraits; having her first work of a Ukrainian Cossack displayed as a young child. Choosing to expand on her talents she spent many years honing her soft design skills through clothing design, pattern making and upholstery. Deciding to further pursue design she obtained a Bachelor of Design degree in Industrial Design at Emily Carr University in 2020 while exploring other various art forms. There she discovered how therapeutic and tactile ceramics could be, and realized her love for expression and exploration through installation, sound art and photography.

As a multidisciplinary artist and designer who enjoys working within various mediums, she creates visually contextual work, mainly focused on photography. To Shayna, photography is a way to speak, express, explore, engage, and understand an experience as a whole. Subject matter changes as she explores her thoughts based on experiences and interactions from the past and present. As an industrial designer she finds it isn’t about making something completely new, it’s about reevaluating how we currently create, interact and how it affects the world around us. It is important to her to create meaningful, intentional products, feeling an empathic eye is needed to conduct research and consider the needs of each item as it is designed. She tends to offer up a different view due to a multiple chemical sensitivity with a desire to create objects of substance for the public sector. As a Metis person hailing from a small town in Manitoba and growing up with endless fields surrounding her, she feels very strongly linked to the plains land she is from.

Theatre Projects Manitoba creates and connects on Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 Territory and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples for their traditional stewardship of this land.

Theatre Projects Manitoba TPM is a professional theatre company with a 30 year history of producing plays that are catered to our local audience, animating stories of interest to Manitobans and supporting local artists and communities. Follow us on socials to see how you can tune into Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail!

Instagram: @tpmwinnipeg

Facebook: facebook.com/TPMwinnipeg

Twitter: @TPMwinnipeg

On the Road is edited by Tanner Manson, and features the musical talents of Duncan Cox.

Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail tour is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba 150, RBC Emerging Artists Project, and Roll with It Rentals.

On this episode of On the Road we're in conversation with Ian Ross about road trips up and down Highway 6 in Manitoba and why he started writing and storytelling! 

Ian Ross was born in McCreary, Manitoba. He calls the First Nation of Pinaymootang, the Métis community of Kinosota and the city of Winnipeg, home. His play, fareWel, won the Governor General’s Award for English Drama in 1997. His commentaries as Joe from Winnipeg CBC Radio and television, as well as NCI, were very popular. Ian has also been a drama instructor and educator for several years. He continues to write and live in Winnipeg.

Theatre Projects Manitoba creates and connects on Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 Territory and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples for their traditional stewardship of this land.

Theatre Projects Manitoba TPM is a professional theatre company with a 30 year history of producing plays that are catered to our local audience, animating stories of interest to Manitobans and supporting local artists and communities. Follow us on socials to see how you can tune into Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail!

Instagram: @tpmwinnipeg

Facebook: facebook.com/TPMwinnipeg

Twitter: @TPMwinnipeg

On the Road is edited by Tanner Manson, and features the musical talents of Duncan Cox.

Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail tour is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba 150, RBC Emerging Artists Project, and Roll with It Rentals.

On this episode of On the Road we chat with Claire Thérèse Friesen about collaborative arts practice and community during isolation, the beauty & importance of connecting to nature and talk some lovely thoughts on art-making this past year! 

Content Warning: this episode talks of death near the tail-end of this conversation. 

Claire Thérèse Friesen is a multi-disciplinary artist from Treaty One Territory who lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  She loves performing and collaborating in new works of theatre, including Embargo (One Trunk Theatre/MayWorks), I Dream of Diesel and Mission Potluck (One Trunk Theatre), Broken Wings (take me home productions), and Dionysus is Getting Impatient (Theatre Incarnate). Claire is a singer-songwriter, performing with her band Claire Therese and the Lockdown.  They are about to release their first full-length album. She is also a member of the Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir.  When she is not on stage, Claire is the Community Engagement Coordinator at Mount Carmel Clinic, and facilitates and designs arts programming for a number of organizations, including Shakespeare in Stony Mountain (through Shakespeare in the Ruins), a program that offers high school drama credits to incarcerated men.

Theatre Projects Manitoba creates and connects on Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 Territory and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples for their traditional stewardship of this land.

Theatre Projects Manitoba TPM is a professional theatre company with a 30 year history of producing plays that are catered to our local audience, animating stories of interest to Manitobans and supporting local artists and communities. Follow us on socials to see how you can tune in to Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail!

Instagram: @tpmwinnipeg

Facebook: facebook.com/TPMwinnipeg

Twitter: @TPMwinnipeg

On the Road is edited by Tanner Manson, and features the musical talents of Duncan Cox.

Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail tour is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba 150, RBC Emerging Artists Project, and Roll with It Rentals.