Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Larry Guno's Bunk #7, September 28 and 29

Late Nisga’a playwright’s partially autobiographical work centres 1960s residential school riots

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Bunk #7.

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Bunk #7, a powerful portrayal of cultural strength against adversity, on September 28 and 29 from 7 to 8:30 pm.

Bunk #7 is the true story of six boys and the student-led riot of 1960-61 at the Edmonton Indian Residential School in St. Albert, Alberta. When their favourite English supervisor is suddenly fired, a perfect storm ignites, causing the boys to rise up and revolt against the institution’s conditions and the incidents occurring.

The play was written in the early 2000s by late Nisga’a residential school survivor Larry Guno. Directed by Marianne Brørup Weston, Bunk #7’s central image is cultural resilience—the capability of a cultural system to absorb adversity, deal with change, and continue to develop.

A political figure and lawyer as well as a playwright, Guno served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1987 to 1991.

Tickets to the show are available here.

Post sponsored by Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.