Lisa C. Ravensbergen is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer of

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and

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/ Irish descent, based in

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. Ravensbergen is a Jessie-nominated actor,

dramaturge A dramaturge or dramaturg (from Ancient Greek δραματουργός – dramatourgós) is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and pr ...

, director and dancer. Ravensbergen is an Associate Artist with Full Circle First Nations Performance Group and Playwright-in-Residence with Delinquent Theatre. She holds undergraduate degrees from

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and

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and an MA in Cultural Studies from Queens University.

Theatre career

In 2019, Ravensbergen wrote a play titled ''The Seventh Fire'' produced by Delinquent Theatre and in association with the Neworld Theatre company. The ''Seventh Fire'' looks at sourcing traditional, oral

Anishinaabe The Anishinaabe (alternatively spelled Anishinabe, Anicinape, Nishnaabe, Neshnabé, Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek, Aanishnaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region of C ...

stories and societal roles as a way to explore ceremony in the everyday. Set in the present, past, and future, it tells the story of a woman's return to the Ojibwe community she believes has rejected her. In 2018, she was featured in an experimental performance titled ''Hearing, finding, translating Kiyoko'' by Julie Tamiko Manning at the Tableau D'Hôte Theatre in

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, QC as well as the Powell Street Festival in Vancouver, BC. In March 2018, she directed a play titled ''Daughter Cafe'', which took place at the

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, in

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, BC. In 2017, she worked as dramaturge for the play titled ''In the Shadow of the Mountains'' by Valerie Sing Turner, which took place at Studio 1398, Festival House, in Vancouver, BC. In 2009, she performed in the Western Canadian Theatre's production of ''

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'', playing the name character Rita Joe.

Artistic career

In June 2001, Ravensbergen co-curated the show Taking Stick Cabaret with Daina Warren at

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, in Vancouver, BC. In September 2020, Ravensbergen was featured in ''Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts'' curated by

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and Dylan Robinson which exhibited at The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College in Gambier,

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Agnes Etherington Art Centre The Agnes Etherington Art Centre is located in Kingston, Ontario, on the campus of Queen's University. The gallery has received a number of awards for its exhibitions from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Association of Art Galleries ...

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, ON, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery,

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, the

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, Vancouver, BC and Kamloops Art Gallery,

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, BC. In February 2021, Ravensbergen participated in an online group exhibition project titled ''PushOFF 2021: Speculative Futures'' in collaboration with Theatre Company and Company 605.

Co-Authored Publications

* Marshall, Mariel and Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen. "The Doing that can Undo: Decolonizing the Performer-Audience Relationship in Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen's Citation." ''Canadian Theatre Review'' 179, (2019): 80–82. * Robinson, Dylan, Kanonhsyonne Janice C. Hill, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Selena Couture, and Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen. "Rethinking the Practice and Performance of Indigenous Land Acknowledgement." ''Canadian Theatre Review'' 177, (2019): 20–30.

Filmography

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