Where Have All the Buffalo Gone? – an AXIS THEATRE production
Presented by Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe
"A total must see!”
Where Have All the Buffalo Gone? is a magical and enchanting story that follows two souls through seven different periods of Métis history. It is filled with stories about the Sun Traveler and the Callihoo family, incorporating a life-like buffalo puppet.
"...an intricately thought-out play with charm and knowledge"
This engaging and relevant play is inspired by historical events of the Métis people of Canada. An original play for families which explores the loves, the losses, and the fight of Treaty 6’s Métis people, and their love and kinship to the buffalo.
“Everyone should see this piece, for all ages.”
The show takes the audience through the emergence of the Métis Nation across the plains, then leads into the robust colonization that arises from the fur trade, the disappearance of the buffalo, as well as the political uprising of the Métis Association of Alberta in the 1930s. The story starts in creation among the stars and ends in 2024.
Free Preshow activity
Learn to Métis Jig
The Ottawa Public Library and Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe have teamed up for some preshow dancing fun!
Join us on Saturday, October 18 for the Cultural Video Series - Indigenous - How to Métis Jig in ROOM 1B (right beside the library), to learn the basic steps of Métis jigging.
Make sure to check out OPL’s display featuring books and booklists of indigenous topics (teen & children's fiction, nonfiction, picture books, folklore, etc.)
You have two chances to catch this activity fun with the first starting at 12:45 pm before the 1:30 pm performance and the second at 3:45 pm before the 4:45 pm perfomance.
See you there!
