Lisa C. Ravensbergen

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Lisa C. Ravensbergen is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer of Ojibwe/Swampy Cree and English/Irish descent, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Ravensbergen is a Jessie-nominated actor, dramaturge, director and dancer. [1] Ravensbergen is an Associate Artist with Full Circle First Nations Performance Group and Playwright-in-Residence with Delinquent Theatre. [2] She holds undergraduate degrees from Trinity Western University and Simon Fraser University and an MA in Cultural Studies from Queens University. [2]

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Theatre career

In 2019, Ravensbergen wrote a play titled The Seventh Fire produced by Delinquent Theatre and in association with the Neworld Theatre company. [3] [4] The Seventh Fire looks at sourcing traditional, oral Anishinaabe stories and societal roles as a way to explore ceremony in the everyday. [3] Set in the present, past, and future, it tells the story of a woman's return to the Ojibwe community she believes has rejected her. [3] In 2018, she was featured in an experimental performance titled Hearing, finding, translating Kiyoko by Julie Tamiko Manning at the Tableau D'Hôte Theatre in Montreal, QC as well as the Powell Street Festival in Vancouver, BC. [5] [6] [7] In March 2018, she directed a play titled Daughter Cafe, which took place at the Belfry Theatre, in Victoria, BC. [8] [9] [10] In 2017, she worked as dramaturge for the play titled In the Shadow of the Mountains by Valerie Sing Turner, which took place at Studio 1398, Festival House, in Vancouver, BC. [11] [12] In 2009, she performed in the Western Canadian Theatre's production of The Ecstasy of Rita Joe , playing the name character Rita Joe. [13] [14]

Artistic career

In June 2001, Ravensbergen co-curated the show Taking Stick Cabaret with Daina Warren at Grunt Gallery, in Vancouver, BC. [15] In September 2020, Ravensbergen was featured in Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson which exhibited at The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC and Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC. [1] [16] [17] In February 2021, Ravensbergen participated in an online group exhibition project titled PushOFF 2021: Speculative Futures in collaboration with Theatre Company and Company 605. [18] [19] [20]

Co-Authored Publications

Further reading

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2010ShatteredHeatherTV series
2010CravenRitaShort Film
2014 The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story Hair PersonTV movie

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  2. 1 2 "Lisa C. Ravensbergen". HowlRound Theatre Commons. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  3. 1 2 3 "The Seventh Fire". Neworld Theatre. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  4. ↑ "The Seventh Fire". delinquent theatre. 2019-01-20. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  5. ↑ Manning, Julie Tamiko (2018-09-19). "Hearing, finding, translating Kiyoko". Tableau D'Hôte Theatre. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  6. ↑ "With Spatial Poetics XVI, a unique show celebrates a singular woman". The Georgia Straight. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  7. ↑ christine. "Powell Street Festival Society - The 2017 Season". Powell Street Festival Society. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
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  15. ↑ "Talking Stick Cabaret | The Activation Map" . Retrieved 2021-03-10.
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