Bøger af Tomson Highway

Une histoire drôle et loufoque accompagnée de chansons jazzy en cri!Il était une fois un jeune lapin nommé Weeskits qui gambadait dans la forêt à la périphérie de Kisoos, une petite ville peuplée exclusivement de lapins, considérée le nombril du monde. Il avait des nouvelles très importantes à annoncer: Salamoo Cook, le grand chef de tous les lapins de la planète, était en route pour annoncer un mystérieux concours. Le prix qu'on pourrait gagner ? Un approvisionnement d'un an en jus de waaskee-choos fraîchement pressé à partir de cônes d'épinette. Weeskits arrivera-t-il à aider son frère Keegach en gagnant cette panacée qui guérirait sa femme souffrante du vilain manchoos ? Cette histoire drôle et loufoque est suivie d'un glossaire cri-français à la fin du livre. Un code QR imprimé dans le livre, qui mène vers les principales plateformes de musique en continu, donne accès à la narration du conte en français et des neuf chansons en cri. Once upon a magical time, a young rabbit named Weeskits hurried home to Kisoos--a town known as the Earth's belly button--to deliver some thrilling news. Salamoo Cook, the Grand Chief of all rabbits in the world, was on his way to announce a mysterious contest. The prize? A year's supply of all-healing waaskee-choos juice fresh from spruce cones that have just fallen. Would Weeskits be able to help his brother Keegach win the juice to rid his wife of the dreadful manchoos? Le grand chef Salamoo Cook arrive en ville ! is a laugh-out-loud riot of a tale in French, interspersed with eight jazzy songs performed in Cree. The book includes a glossary of words in Cree and the accompanying recordings can be accessed with a QR code printed in the book.

An outlandish musical tale featuring a town full of rabbits and eight jazzy songs in Cree! Once upon a magical time, a young rabbit named Weeskits hurried home to Kisoos--a town known as the Earth's belly button--to deliver some thrilling news. Salamoo Cook, the Grand Chief of all rabbits in the world, was on his way to announce a mysterious contest. The prize? A year's supply of all-healing waaskee-choos juice fresh from spruce cones that have just fallen. Would Weeskits be able to help his brother Keegach win the juice to rid his wife of the dreadful manchoos? Grand Chief Salamoo Is Coming to Town! is a laugh-out-loud riot of a tale, interspersed with eight jazzy songs performed in Cree. The musical picture book includes a glossary developed by the Cree Literacy Network. A free pronunciation manual, teaching guide, and activity sheets are available at www.thesecretmountain.com. Scan the QR code to listen to the narrated story and songs online.

"Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing" tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, also the setting for Tomson Highway's award winning play "The Rez Sisters." Wherein "The Rez Sisters" the focus was on seven "Wasy" women and the game of bingo, "Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing" features seven "Wasy" men and the game of hockey. It is a fast-paced story of tragedy, comedy, and hope.

"Highway's text has a graceful simplicity, evoking the deep pleasure of brothers at play in a serene, remote setting." -- Horn Book "At once a celebration of heritage, the wilderness and imagination, this book is a breath of fresh northern air." -- Kirkus Reviews Dragonfly Kites is a brilliant evocation of the very essence of childhood as Thomson Highway weaves a deceptively simple story about the power of the imagination. Joe and Cody, two young Cree brothers, along with their parents and their little dog Ootsie, are spending the summer by one of the hundreds of lakes in northern Manitoba. Summer means a chance to explore the world and make friends with an array of creatures. But what Joe and Cody like doing best of all is flying dragonfly kites. They catch dragonflies and gently tie a length of thread around the middle of each dragonfly before letting it go. Off soar the dragonflies into the summer sky and off race the brothers and Ootsie too, chasing after their dragonfly kites through trees and meadows and down to the beach before watching them disappear into the night sky. But in their dreams, Joe and Cody soar through the skies with their kites until it's time to wake up.

"Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world's most treasured Indigenous creators. Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap lunatic. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have one blast of a time, to laugh ourselves to death. Ever the trickster, Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death. A comparative analysis of Christian, Classical, and Cree mythologies reveals how they have given form and substance to Western thought, life, and culture. Yet Indigenous mythologies provide unique, timeless solutions to our modern problems. Tomson Highway offers generous personal anecdotes, including of his beloved accordion-playing father, and plentiful Trickster stories as guides through such crises as climate change, economic disparity, racial intolerance, and all-out unhappiness. Laughter is medicine. Within the endless circle of life in Indigenous mythologies, the Earth is a garden of joy unlimited. A world we must protect as the birthright of future generations. Laugh with the legendary Tomson Highway as he illuminates a healing, hilarious way forward."--

"Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play Nominated for the Governor General's Award" This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. And not just any bingo. It is THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD and a chance to win a way out of a tortured life. The Rez Sisters is hilarious, shocking, mystical and powerful, and clearly establishes the creative voice of Native theatre and writing in Canada today.

A lyrical tale of survival in a strange, hostile world

Retells one of the most tragic cases of cultural genocide among Native peoples of British Columbia. Cast of 4 women.

A musical set on the Wasaychigan Hill Reserve in 1992. Cast of 10 women and 7 men.

"Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only..." From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist of the world, playwright, pianist, polyglot, storyteller, and irreverent disciple of the Trickster, Tomson Highway rides roughshod through the languages and communities that have shaped him. Cree, Dene, Latin, French, English, Spanish, and the universal language of music have opened windows and widened horizons in Highway's life. Readers who can hang on tight--Highway fans, culture mavens, cunning linguists, and fellow tricksters--will experience the profundity of Highway's humour, for as he says, "In Cree, you will laugh until you weep."

Tomson Highway is one of Canada's foremost playwrights and novelists. In this title, he addresses a theme that is central to much of his work: the ways that Canadian culture today is shaped by the mixture of Aboriginal and Western mythologies.