Theatre used to bridge divide between Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal students

About 100 teenagers from four schools in the Calgary area gathered on the Tsuut’ina reserve in November to use theatre to talk about First Nations history. The students, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, worked with local troupe, Trickster Theatre, to create their own plays about First Nation treaties. Four schools took part in the project: Tatsikiisaapo’p middle school, Strathmore high Sshool, Sir John Franklin middle school and Tsuut’ina middle and high school. “[Theatre] enables us to do is it enables us to viscerally kind of understand it and get a greater sense of empathy with what we are looking at,” said David Chantler, the founder of Trickster Theatre.