The Eighth Fire Part 1: The Great Migration and Part 2: Bagosenim / Have Hope

The Eighth Fire play series is an odyssey told in two parts by eight different archetypal storytellers who come from the stars. 

Part One: The Great Migration tracks a thousands year old Anishinaabe prophecy called The Seven Fires, which is really a migration story of the Anishinaabek leaving the east coast, traveling west. This story bounces back and forth between tales of the Anishinaabek migration to a group of Indigenous Queer, Trans activists in the not so distant future.

Part Two: Bagesenim/Have Hope picks up where we left and continues on. It will follow the same ancestors struggling with contact and the group of future activists that we’ve met as they try and pick up what their ancestors left behind during the migration and use it to propel us forward, to where the final and eighth fire - the fire of revolution and freedom - can finally be lit and as in the prophecy from Abya Yala, the eagle and condor can fly together again. The story asks if there’s a way to travel in time to warn our ancestors of what’s to come? 

These stories are told by eight Indigenous actors and includes dance, song, Anishinaabemowin, traditional creation tales told through puppetry and mask and so much absurd, meta humour. The migration and prophecy are stories in their own right and stories - how we tell them, is medicine.