• The show was presented as part of Hart House Theatre’s 100th Anniversary season.
• The Collective Encounter is comprised of Indigenous and non-Indigenous storytellers, researchers, and designers (self-identified in their bios).
• Part script, part documentation of process: restoryation analysis is rare and important.
• Lee Maracle’s teachings, mentoring, and oratory are crucial foundations upon which Encounters at the “Edge of the Woods” was built.
• Lee was a seminal figure in the community and died in 2021.
• First produced by Hart House Theatre in 2019.

The Collective Encounter is comprised of a courageous group of scholar-artists who came together in July 2019 to create a survivance intervention that would effect an Indigenous reclamation of territory, placing the settler and Indigenous body, alike, into direct confrontation with a difficult history that has been written over by colonial occupation and invention. This intervention, Encounters at the “Edge of the Woods,” opened Hart House Theatre’s centenary season in September 2019.

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Jill Carter (Anishinaabe/Ashkenazi) works in Tkaron:to with many Indigenous artists to support the development of new works and to disseminate artistic objectives, process, and outcomes through community-driven research projects. Her scholarly research, creative projects, and activism are built upon ongoing relationships with Elders, scholars, youth, artists, and activists positioning her as witness to, participant in, and disseminator of oral histories that speak to the application of Indigenous aesthetic principles and traditional knowledge systems to contemporary performance.

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• Winner, Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy