On this episode of On the Road we chat with Claire Thérèse Friesen about collaborative arts practice and community during isolation, the beauty & importance of connecting to nature and talk some lovely thoughts on art-making this past year!
Content Warning: this episode talks of death near the tail-end of this conversation.
Claire Thérèse Friesen is a multi-disciplinary artist from Treaty One Territory who lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She loves performing and collaborating in new works of theatre, including Embargo (One Trunk Theatre/MayWorks), I Dream of Diesel and Mission Potluck (One Trunk Theatre), Broken Wings (take me home productions), and Dionysus is Getting Impatient (Theatre Incarnate). Claire is a singer-songwriter, performing with her band Claire Therese and the Lockdown. They are about to release their first full-length album. She is also a member of the Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir. When she is not on stage, Claire is the Community Engagement Coordinator at Mount Carmel Clinic, and facilitates and designs arts programming for a number of organizations, including Shakespeare in Stony Mountain (through Shakespeare in the Ruins), a program that offers high school drama credits to incarcerated men.
Theatre Projects Manitoba creates and connects on Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 Territory and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples for their traditional stewardship of this land.
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On the Road is edited by Tanner Manson, and features the musical talents of Duncan Cox.
Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail tour is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba 150, RBC Emerging Artists Project, and Roll with It Rentals.
