First Name
Lisa
Middle Name
Last Name
Cooke Ravensbergen
City
Country
State or Province
Job Title
Multi-Hyphenate Theatre Artist & Activator
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Biography
Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen is a tawny mix of Ojibwe/Swampy Cree and English/Irish. She is a mother, multihyphenate theatre artist and scholar working across Turtle Island as a performer, play-maker, director, writer, dramaturge, curator, consultant, space-holder, and teacher. Her work is rooted in Indigenous protocol, ontologies, and anti-colonial methodologies and is recognized nationally and internationally for its rigour and artistic excellence. Lisa is an Associate Artist with Full Circle: First Nations Performance and Playwright-in-Residence with Delinquent Theatre.
She started the Talking Stick Festival with Margo Kane and Full Circle and more recently, she founded the Maada’oonidiwag Canadian Anti-Racist Theatre Exchange, an IBPOC-centred resistance and anti-racist mobilization that focuses on disrupting the colonial project called 'Canadian theatre.’
As the next generation of colonial survivors, Lisa currently resides as a visitor and raises her family on the occupied and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations.
She started the Talking Stick Festival with Margo Kane and Full Circle and more recently, she founded the Maada’oonidiwag Canadian Anti-Racist Theatre Exchange, an IBPOC-centred resistance and anti-racist mobilization that focuses on disrupting the colonial project called 'Canadian theatre.’
As the next generation of colonial survivors, Lisa currently resides as a visitor and raises her family on the occupied and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations.
Language(s) spoken
English/ Anishinaabemowin (re-claiming)
Interested in freelance opportunities
Yes