Toqaq mecimi puwiht/Delphine rêve toujours

Without the beating drum, words do not exist.

Delphine is a young Wolastoqey (Maliseet) girl, with a head full of dreams and a fierce determination. Since her father lost the drum of his deceased muhsums, Delphine has been dead set on finding it at all costs. One autumn day, as the wind picks up, Delphine is transported to the world of the forest spirits. There she meets the mischievous porcupine, the opera-singing owl, and Kiwahq, the terrible beast with a heart of ice! Will she manage to overcome the challenges of the forest to find her drum?

With his play TOQAQ MECIMI PUWIHT / Delphine rêve toujours, Wolastoqey playwright Dave Jenniss addresses the themes of transmission and identity and reclaims the language of his ancestors in order to make it resonate. This bilingual show in French and Wolastoqey is performed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists.

Ondinnok and La Vieille 17 are honoured to be able to create in Tio’Ta:ke and Odawa, magnificent territories where the Kanien’kehà:ka and Algonquin Anishinabe peoples have walked, dreamed and lived for millennia. Miigwetch! Nià:wen! Thank you!