By Laura Stradiotto Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Jonathan Fisher didn’t know it then but singing Stairway to Heaven for the WikyTV5 Christmas telethon in his last year of high school would be the beginning of a rewarding career in theatre. Fisher still calls Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory home but since that 1991 performance on his community’s television station, he has performed on stages across the globe, most recently with Native Earth Performing Arts in the role of Louis Riel in the all-Indigenous cast of the historical satire Women of the Fur Trade. After a sold-out premiere in January at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the production will continue at Aki Studio in Toronto from April 9-21. Women of the Fur Trade is described by the production company as a story…
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