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Indigenous comedy duo forms in B.C. out of community need for laughter – BC

Just a couple of “dirty old grannies,” is how Lilet and Soogah – or Bev Prince and Winnie Sam – describe their comedy duo. The grannies are from Nak’azdli Whut’en First Nation near Fort St. James, B.C. They grew up together, live two houses apart and say comedy sort of …

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How this all-Indigenous production of Grease brings Indigenous humour, culture to the 1978 classic

Crystle Lightning says she never saw people like herself reflected in the arts and media. So along with her husband, MC Redcloud, Lightning thought there was no better way to celebrate their identity, in spaces where they felt Indigenous representation was excluded, than by revamping one of their favourite musicals — Grease.   Their travelling …

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