IRSHDC : Archival File : Ora Pro Nobis, Pray for Us: British Columbia Pen to Pen Tour 1995 [IRSHDC_LBF

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Ora Pro Nobis, Pray for Us: British Columbia Pen to Pen Tour 1995

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1995

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Creators and Contributors

Larry Loyie; Constance Brissenden

Description

Contains materials related to a production tour as well as other readings and performances of Larry Loyie's work for theatre, Ora Pro Nobis.

Larry Loyie and Constance Brissenden met with producer, Trude Huebner, for the first time in November of 1994 to discuss touring Ora Pro Nobis (Pray for Us), to various prisons within British Columbia. What resulted was the Ora Pro Nobis “Pen to Pen” tour of 5 federal prisons across the Lower Mainland from February 14-16, 1995. The months prior to the tour were busy with rehearsals, tour meetings, as well as prop and costume organization; all in addition to Loyie’s other work and travel related to the Literacy Movement. The tour preparation period was such a busy time that Brissenden marked in her day timer on December 11th that “Larry fell asleep at 7pm.”¹

The tour engaged the following contributors:
Playwright: Larry Loyie
Director: Constance Brissenden
Actors: Evan Tlesla Adams, Marie Humber Clements, Leith Harris, Wayne Lavallee, Mark Prior, Marianne Sundown, Sophie Merasty
Musical Director Amy Eusterguerling
Producer: Trude Huebner
Tour Manager: Tim Cardinal
Publicity: Trude Huebner
Poster: Ron Woodward

Includes:

Writer’s Fest 1999 program
Invitation to the first reading of Ora Pro Nobis
Pen to Pen Tour program
Directions to the institutions performances were held at
Performance evaluation from Correctional Service of Canada
Fax correspondence from Hebner
Receipt for borrowed props and costumes
Tour schedule
Van Dusen grant application
Draft program with corrections
Correspondence from BC Attorney General regarding funding request from the Corrections Branch
Letters notifying actors of tour

¹Constance Brissenden and Emily Larson, "Larry Loyie Timeline" (Loyie-Brissenden Collection, Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, 2020), 12.

Language

English

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Alternate Title(s)

A-62b Ora Pro Nobis Tour 1995 British Columbia - Pen to Pen Tour ’95 program for Kent Mission Elbow Lake Regional Psychiatric Centres

Holding Repository

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre

Extent and Medium

1 cm of textual materials

Archival History

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Archivist Notes

Description written by Kira Vandermeulen; edited by Naomi Lloyd and Clea Hargreaves. The Loyie Brissenden Collection was processed in close collaboration with Constance Brissenden.

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