2024-2025 Season
Baba and the Gift of the Kohkum Scarf
A Dancing Sky Theatre Collective Creation
December 6-22, 2024
Dancing Sky Theatre is thrilled to invite you to our 12 th Prairie Panto, BABA AND THE
GIFT OF THE KOHKUM SCARF.
The series started back in 2005 with FARMER JOE AND THE MONEY TREES and has
become a treasured family Christmas tradition for many of our audience members, who
come to our beautiful space every year with kids, grandkids, grandparents and friends
to share food, laughs and festive warmth together. All of the Prairie Pantos are set in a
mythical Saskatchewan past, full of wonderful, crazy characters, and they all feature
music, laughter and often talking animals.
This season’s creation picks up many of the threads and characters from last year’s
celebrated BABA’S MAGIC MITTEN. We will continue to celebrate the culture and
contributions of Ukrainian immigrants to our communities, but we will also explore a
little-known connection. When the first Ukrainian immigrants arrived here to homestead
and turn the prairie soil for the first time many received help, friendship and support
from the indigenous people who had been here for millennia and knew how to survive in
the harsh climate. That connection exists to this day; when Russia invaded Ukraine in
2022 many Indigenous people showed solidarity by wearing their ‘Kohkum scarves’
which were a cultural gift 100 years before.
This year’s panto will be family fun that celebrates the simple gift of caring that is the
heart of Christmas.
Paper Wheat
by 25th Street Theatre
April 25-May 14, 2025
PAPER WHEAT is the collective creation of a group of artists brought together by 25th Street Theatre in 1977. The first performance was at the Memorial Hall in Sintaluta, Saskatchewan.
PAPER WHEAT is staged by arrangement with 25th Street Theatre.
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Dancing Sky Theatre is proud and honored to be making art on the great plains of North
America, also called Turtle Island and many other names. We strive to reflect rural realities in
an urban-centric culture. We recognize that we share this landscape with various indigenous
peoples (many signees to Treaty #6), members of The Metis Nation, several generations of
settlers, as well as new immigrants to these lands. We also seek to share the space with the
more than human world, both indigenous and immigrant. We aim to respect, and work in
harmony and balance with all the diversity of life that surrounds us.