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Voices of the silenced

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dc.contributor.authorGordey, Gordon
dc.contributor.authorGanert, Dave
dc.contributor.authorLilley, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorKochan, Alexis
dc.contributor.authorDunn, Maria
dc.contributor.authorPugh, Ryan
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-13
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-28T00:36:25Z
dc.date.available2022-05-28T00:36:25Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractVideo performance excerpt of a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Voices of the Silenced, conceived and directed by Gordon Gordey. This dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Voices of the Silenced is a contemporary Ukrainian Canadian narrative folk dance theatre work with video exploring the unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians as “enemy aliens” in Canada during WWI. These “enemy aliens” were subjected to having to carry registration identity papers, often pay monthly registration fees, and were under constant surveillance. Of the 80,000 who were registered under the authority of the Act, 8,579 were deemed: “enemy aliens”. The majority of “enemy aliens” were Ukrainians and were arrested and interned in 26 makeshift encampments located mostly in Canada’s frontier hinterlands. They were forced into hard labour clearing land for roads, building bridges, and building the railway.
dc.format.extent23.35 MB
dc.format.mimetypeMP4
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/633
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectCanadian War Measures Act of 1914
dc.subjectUkrainian Shumka Dancers
dc.subjectWorld War I
dc.subjectCastle Mountain
dc.subjectBanff
dc.subjectCanadian dance
dc.subjectinternment camps
dc.subjectcontemporary Ukrainian dance
dc.subjectenemy aliens
dc.titleVoices of the silenceden
dc.typeCreative Work
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