Price:
$55.00 – Tier 1
$42.00 – Tier 2
$30.00 – Tier 3
Membership program discounts available.

Date and Time:
March 12, 2027 – 7:30 pm

This is not a tale of apocalypse, but of perseverance. Of memory that survives and endures. Of land that remembers how to heal.

Cameron sinkʷə Fraser-Monroe returns with his newest work, Cikilaxʷm: Controlled Burn, a full-length narrative ballet that blazes across time and tradition. Featuring an original commissioned score by Cree cellist and composer Cris Derksen, the work is brought to life through projections by Euro/Omushkego Cree artist Andy Moro and costumes by Navajo/Cherokee designer Asa Benally, each layering the stage with history and meaning. Set in a dystopian future of endless wildfire seasons, the ballet follows a young Indigenous firefighter whose beliefs are challenged when he meets Mothkʷ, a fierce guardian of ancestral knowledge who practices cultural burning. The word cikilaxʷm [tseekiLAHkwum] means “prescribed fire” in nsyilxcən, the language of the syilx (Okanagan) People, referring to traditional land practices that nourish the land and community through healing and renewal.

Presenting Sponsor: Emil Anderson