CHRISTINE SOKAYMOH FREDERICK

Playwright

BIOGRAPHY

Christine Sokaymoh Frederick is Executive Artistic Director of the Dreamspeakers Festival Society and producer and presenter of their annual International Indigenous Film Festival and the Rubaboo Arts Festival. She is the first Indigenous Associate Artist of the Citadel Theatre and served on many artistic boards including the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton Arts Council and Alberta Foundation of the Arts. She is Cree-Métis with forty years of artistic experience and received the 2016 Mayor's award for Excellence in Artistic Leadership. Christine has written two plays, "Flint & Feather" about poet E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake performed for 2004 Edmonton Fringe Festival receiving 4 stars from the Edmonton Journal, and "Minosis Gathers Hope" a dance theatre piece that toured and was performed for over 2000 youth in Canada in 2018. She has written forward introduction for two published books, "A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism Tomson Highway" and "Bears" by Matthew MacKenzie, and included in the publication of "Configurations in Motion" concerning diversity in the arts.

PLAY DEVELOPMENT

Civil Rites

A multidisciplinary work that explores the intersection of the history and politics of Indigenous and Black civil rights movements in the 1960s and their impact on Canada’s Métis, America’s and Australia’s Black peoples. The inspiration comes from my grandparents, Stan and Christine Daniels who were historical figures in both Indigenous politics and cultural movements and a fateful meeting and mutual support of the Black Panthers, with lasting impact to Edmonton and Alberta, and possibly beyond.