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Book Launch, Screening and Discussion – Ashes and Embers
By Indigenous Studies Department
Free Lecture for Alumni, Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff, Undergraduate Students
Overview
Ashes and Embers
Join us for a book launch, screening, and discussion with Floyd Favel, of the Documentary Short and book Ashes and Embers. Ashes and Embers tells the story of the fateful night in January 1948 when the Delmas Indian Residential School was destroyed in a fire and was written and directed by Floyd Favel. There are a limited number of seats available. Registered participants will receive a free copy of the book, “Ashes and Embers, Stories of the Delmas Indian Residential School.”
Speakers
Mr. Floyd Favel is a theatre theorist, director, essayist, based in Saskatchewan. He studied theatre in Denmark at the Tukak Teatret, a school for Inuit and Sami People and in Italy with Jerzy Grotowski, a Polish theatre director and one of the more influential theatre figures of the 20th century.
He is the curator of the Chief Poundmaker Museum (winner of the 2018 Indigenous Tourism Award). He is the director of the Poundmaker Indigenous Performance Festival, a global Indigenous festival that is multi-cultural in presentation. The premise of the festival is that Indigenous theatre is an artistic genre that is open to all People and not defined by ‘colonial identities.
He produced the documentary ‘Ashes and Embers’, a film about the Delmas Indian Residential School, directed by Alix Van Der Donckt Ferrand, in 2021, which was premiered at the Presence Autochtone International Film Festival in Montreal. It was screened at the Imaginative Film Festival in Toronto.
His book of collected essays on theatre methods and journalism was published by UNIWERSYTET SLASKI w Katowice in 2022 in Poland in the Polish language. This is the first book published that articulates and outlines an Indigenous theatrical method.