Introduction
Inose/Field Trip is available in its original audio format, as well as in an ASL video version that was produced by the CoMotion Festival with support from Common Boots Theatre.
Inspired by a prompt provided by Yolanda Bonnell, four intersectional artists were asked to respond by creating short digital pieces. These are presented here in a number of accessible formats. The artists are: Natasha ‘Courage’ Bacchus, Yousef Kadoura, Viv Moore, Tara Sky.
Funding for this project was provided by TD Bank Ready Commitment.
The following teaser video features project curators Alex Bulmer and Derek Kwan introducing the project and the commissioned artists. This video contains spoken English with open captions.
Inose/Field Trip
Original Audio Version
- Instructions – read by Natasha Greenblatt (1 min)
- Inose/Field Trip – read by Yolanda Bonnell (26 min)
- Open Captioned Video (includes Instructions, and Inose/Field Trip) (27 min)
- Downloadable Transcript (PDF)
ASL Version
This ASL version was produced by CoMotion Festival (2022) with support from Common Boots Theatre.
ASL performer: Amy Ireland
ASL consultants/coaches: Thurga Kanagasekarampillai, Tamyka Bullen
Video: Amy Siegel
ASL interpreters: Amanda Hyde, Marcia Adolphe
Closed Captioning: Suchiththa Wickremesooriya
About Inose/Field Trip
Inose/Field Trip is a 25-minute sound walk created by the award-winning Anishinaabe-Ojibwe playwright Yolanda Bonnell in consultation with Dr. Jesse Popp, a Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science at the University of Guelph, produced and dramaturged by Natasha Greenblatt, with soundscapes by Dawn Matheson.
Inose [Ee-no-say] means to walk in a certain way, to a certain place. Commissioned by Imagining Climates (a project of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research), in collaboration with the Arboretum and with support from the College of Arts, Inose/Field Trip encourages participants to connect with their surroundings, awakening curiosity and the potential for new relationships in the natural world.
Commissioned Pieces
Everchanging (Tara Sky)
- Original video version with closed captions
- Extended audio described version with closed captions
- Transcript
Creator: Tara Sky
Improvised by: Jani Lauzon, Alexandra Nunez, Susan Hookong-Taylor
Closed Captioning: Suchiththa Wickremesooriya
Audio Description by Superior Description Services.
Written and Voiced by Janis Mayers with Consultation by Vivian Chong and Audio Engineering by Reagan Hicock
The Marches of Divine Chaos (Viv Moore)
- Original video version with closed captions
- Extended audio described version with closed captions
- Transcript
Concept, Performance, Poem, Sculpture: Viv Moore
Videographer: Dave Wilson
Sound Design: Joseph Snook
Editor: Ed Sinclair
Closed Captioning: Suchiththa Wickremesooriya
Audio Description by Superior Description Services.
Written by Rebecca Singh and Janis Mayers with Consultation by Vivian Chong and Audio Engineering by Reagan Hicock
This Land What I Learn (Natasha ‘Courage’ Bacchus)
- Original video version with closed captions
- Extended audio described version with closed captions
- Transcript
Directed and Created by: Natasha “Courage” Bacchus
Filmed and Edited by: Alexandra Hickox
English text edited by: Cassie-Hope Aubin
Closed Captioning by: Suchiththa Wickremesooriya
Audio Description by Superior Description Services.
Written by Rebecca Singh and Janis Mayers with Consultation by Christine Malec and Audio Engineering by Reagan Hicock
3 Letters to the Land (Yousef Kadoura)
Written and Performed By: Yousef Kadoura, Erik Berg, Silvae Mercedes, and Parya Heravi
Open Captioning by: Suchiththa Wickremesooriya
Audio-Prioritized Versions of All Pieces
Inose/Field Trip – Original Version
- Instructions – read by Natasha Greenblatt (1 min)
- Inose/Field Trip– read by Yolanda Bonnell (26 min)
- All versions of this piece
Everchanging (Tara Sky)
The Marches of Divine Chaos (Viv Moore)
This Land What I Learn (Natasha ‘Courage’ Bacchus)
3 Letters to the Land (Yousef Kadoura)
Visual-Prioritized Versions of All Pieces
Inose/Field Trip– ASL Version
Everchanging (Tara Sky)
The Marches of Divine Chaos (Viv Moore)
This Land What I Learn (Natasha ‘Courage’ Bacchus)
3 Letters to the Land (Yousef Kadoura)
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Alex Bulmer
Co-Curator: What Can You Learn From The Land You Are On?
Alex Bulmer (She/Her), Award winning writer, actor, director and educator, was named one of the most influential disabled artists by UK’s Power Magazine. She has over thirty professional years’ experience across theatre, film, television, radio and education. She is fuelled by a curiosity of the improbable, dedicated to collaborative art practice, and deeply informed by her experience of becoming blind. Alex is co-founder and co-Artistic Director of The Fire and Rescue Team, is former Artistic Director of Common Boots Theatre, and recently curated CoMotionFestival 2022, an international disability arts festival with Harbourfront Centre. Alex has worked with numerous companies around Canada and beyond. She earned best actor at the Moscow International Disability Film Festival and was Friar Lawrence in R+J at the Stratford Festival in 2021. Currently, Alex is launching a blind-led digital arts space called Perceptual Archaeology, and is gearing up for her upcoming theatre production Perceptual Archaeology (or How To Travel Blind) at Crows Theatre in June 2023.
Yolanda Bonnell
Creator: Inose/Field Trip
Prompt: What Can You Learn From The Land You Are On?
Yolanda Bonnell (She/They) is a Bi/Queer 2 Spirit Anishinaabe-Ojibwe, South Asian mixed storyteller from Fort William First Nation, ON. Her play bug was nominated for four Dora awards, while the published version was shortlisted for a Governor General Literary Award. Yolanda was the first Indigenous artist recipient of the Jayu Arts for Human Rights Award for her work and won the PGC Tom Hendry Drama Award for My Sister’s Rage. Yolanda has taught/facilitated at schools like York University and Sheridan College and proudly bases her practice in land-based creation, drawing on energy and inspiration from the earth and her ancestors.
Natasha Greenblatt
Producer/Dramaturge: Inose/Field Trip
Natasha Greenblatt (She/Her) is a writer, performer, educator, and the co-artistic director of Two Birds Theatre. Selected acting credits include: Audrey Dwyer’s Calpurnia (Nightwood/bCurrent), Alice Through the Looking Glass (NAC and Charlottetown Festival) and Jordan Tannahill’s Get Yourself Home Skyler James (Roseneath, Dora Award). Her plays include The Peace Maker(Next Stage Festival, Playwrights Canada Press), Two Birds One Stone, written and performed with Rimah Jabr (Riser Project, Tarragon Workspace, Impact Festival, and the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre) and The Election, a play she wrote with Yolanda Bonnell (Common Boots Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, and Theatre Direct). Natasha is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph, working on a book of creative non fiction.
Natasha “Courage” Bacchus
Creator: This Land What I Learn
Natasha “Courage” Bacchus (She/Her) is a former 3 times Deaf Olympian Sprinter. She began working
as an actress in 2019 – and since then she has performed in: The Black Drum, The Two Natashas, 21 Black Futures, and season four of The Coroner on Netflix. She has participated as an artistic collaborator with numerous theatre and film productions in Canada. She has held multiple positions including interdisciplinary visual artist, arts accessibility consultant, Deaf theatre
interpretation, and activist for the IBPOC Deaf art community in terms of expanding IBPOC Deaf artists’ representation.
Yousef Kadoura
Creator: 3 Letters To The Land
Originally from Dearborn Michigan and raised in Ottawa Ontario, Yousef Kadoura (He/Him) is a Lebanese Canadian actor, writer and curator, as well as a right leg below knee amputee. Yousef is a graduate of the Acting (2017) program at the National Theatre School of Canada, and since graduation Yousef has spent his time as an actor between Toronto and Montreal. Yousef is also a founding company member of Other HeArts, a Toronto based performance collective. As an artist Yousef seeks to draw from a plurality of experiences and disciplines to expand the boundaries of performance in pursuit of accessibility, presence, and shared experience.
Viv Moore
Creator: The Marches of Divine Chaos
Born in England, Viv Moore (She/Her) started dancing when she was 4 and hasn’t stopped. Besides being a performer, she is a choreographer, teacher, movement director and actor. Viv loves solo work and collaborations, and values the richness the creative process provides. Her past movement practices have ranged from jazz, ballet, bouffon, modern, butoh, stage combat, Latin, ballroom and Englis step. Viv is led by her heart, passion and spiritual teachings in order to continue to resonate with her truth. She is presently exploring visual art through textiles and calligraphy, and working towards a solo show.
Tara Sky
Creator: Everchanging
Tara Sky (She/They) is an actor, singer, and beader. They grew up in Tkarón:to/Toronto, but their family is mostly from BC. They identify as Mixedblood Indigenous as they have Haisla, Métis, Scottish, French, and Finish in them to name a few. They also Identify as 2Spirit and Genderqueer. They grew up as a second generation artist and are a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada for acting in 2019.