Nigamon/Tunai

Nigamon/Tunai is a powerful poetic manifesto by Émilie Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) and Waira Nina (Inga Nation, Colombian Amazon). This immersive performance places the audience on stage alongside the artists, surrounded by living trees, pools of water, and copper instruments that resonate with flowing water.
The work confronts the environmental destruction of water and land in the Colombian Amazon caused by Canadian mining companies extracting copper—a mineral sacred to Anishinaabe culture. Through voice, breath, movement, and song in Spanish, French, English, Anishinaabemowin, and Inga, the artists create a ceremonial experience that embodies Indigenous resistance.