Quelemia Sparrow

About the series Ursula, an AI instructor from the future, encourages listeners to study the turbulent 2020s. Mixing speculative fiction and documentary, leading sci-fi authors bring us three futures that seem like fantasy: animals are people, capitalism is banned from outer space and humans and AI have become kin. We meet the writers who dream of these futures and the activists, scientists and thinkers who are turning fiction into fact.

Lysistrata was adapted for Bard on the Beach in 2018 by Lois Anderson and Jennifer Wise. In this article, Anderson discusses how the production, which was performed in Vanier Park on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish nations, had to open up to include the voice of Musqueam actor Quelemia Sparrow. Sparrow, an Indigenous actor working in Canadian theatre, writes about finding agency working in Canadian colonial culture.

The Pipeline Project is a provocative and personal account of the ongoing cultural battles over pipelines in BC. Three actor writers – two Indigenous and one white – come together to create a play about the political conflicts surrounding Canada’s oil industry, confronting their own prejudices and hypocrisies along the way.