By Macarena Mantilla, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Wren Editor’s note: As a member of Discourse Community Publishing, The Wren uses quotation marks around the word “school” because the Truth and Reconciliation Commission found residential “schools” were “an education system in name only for much of its existence.” How is a language reclaimed? And what comes after? These are the main questions at the centre of Laura Michel’s Echoes of the Homesick Heart. What began as a research project funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council through the Community University Research Alliance (CURA), Echoes of the Homesick Heart is a verbatim theatre project, a type of documentary theatre created from words of real people. Based on over 40 in-person interviews across the Secwépemc Nation, the story focuses on…
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