Artist, folklorist and performer Shayna Jones has just completed a series of performances about Black lives in rural Saskatchewan.
The effort is part of her national storytelling project about Black and rural experiences in Canada.
A: I live rurally in B.C., outside of a teeny tiny town of 800 people. And two years ago in 2020, Black life was suddenly put on centre stage after the murder of George Floyd. Suddenly, Black life was the topic of the day for everybody. And I found myself reflecting, in my tiny little mountain home, on what my own heritage means to me. What does my own sense of being Black mean to me?
You know, we predominantly associate rural Saskatchewan with a white settler experience, but those are not the only voices in these towns. And until the other voices are acknowledged and are given space to be heard, it will be very easy to malign their stories or to consider them as not important and push through as if they don’t matter. I want to challenge that.A: When I did the first performance, the audience was, of course, predominantly white and predominantly over 50 in age.
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