• Kiuryaq

    Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    The Northern Lights have always carried stories—frightening, spiritual, epic, and playful. Kiuryaq is a circumpolar performance exploring our relationship with the Northern Lights—“kiuryaq” in Inuvialuktun—created through collaboration among Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from Canada, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), and Sápmi (Norway). At its centre are two siblings born in the North: one raised beneath the Aurora with […]

  • Split Tooth: Saputjiji

    Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    From Polaris Prize and Juno award-winning singer Tanya Tagaq comes Split Tooth: Saputjiji, a performance expanding the elemental and poetic world of her beloved book Split Tooth. Neither adaptation nor concert, Split Tooth: Saputjiji is a new language of performance—gathering Inuit throat singers, musicians, and performers within a staged environment that blurs music and memory, landscape and breath. […]

  • Susan Aglukark and PIQSIQ

    Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Join us for a celebration of arctic sounds and Inuit artistry featuring legendary singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark and acclaimed throat-singing duo PIQSIQ. Susan Aglukark is a Canadian icon and is the first Inuk artist to ever win a Juno Award. Her seminal 1995 album This Child went triple platinum in Canada, aided by the runaway hit “O Siem.” […]