Visiting Scholar Floyd Favel, band member of the Poundmaker Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, is joining the Ānako Indigenous Research Institute for eight months beginning in the 2023 winter term.
Favel is a fluent Cree speaker, traditionalist, cultural activist, theorist, playwright, essayist, journalist, actor, and theatre director. He is also the organizer of artistic events in his community and is the curator of the Chief Poundmaker Museum and the director of Miyawata Culture Inc.
Floyd Favel (photo by Alix Ven Der Donckt)
Favel studied at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, in Toronto, and internationally in Denmark and Italy.
Favel has an extensive list of productions and performances, including Ashes and Embers (2021), Antigone, Making Treaty 7, 60 Below, House of Sonya (1998), Lady of Silences (1998), Governor of the Dew (1999), The Sleeping Land (2004).
In 2022, a book of his essays on Indigenous theatre methods and Polish translations of some of his works was published in Poland, titled Piszący z ziemi (Writing from the Earth).
Favel is also teaching the Indigenous Storytelling as Research Methodology (CDNS 5003 B/INDG 4901 B) course with the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies.
He will be leading a research talk with the Ānako Indigenous Research Institute on March 27, titled “Storytelling; Towards an Indigenous Performance Process.”