S2 E1: The Archivist's Tale

The Apocrypha Chronicles

The year is 2187. In the 31 years since the emergence of the Fungal Intelligence, Phe has travelled across Turtle Island to spread the FI’s message. The FI has helped advance x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓’s medicines, agriculture, and environment, and Phe is working to expand the benefits of the FI to the larger Cascadian region. But this Great Expansion carries a new threat, and the FI must again use the voices of the past to call Phe home, and warn of this danger to their collective future…

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Creative Team:

Rae Takei as Phe

Mela Pietropaolo as the Fungal Intelligence

Stephanie Wong as the Myconet Computer Voice

Original music by Benton Roark & Jessica McMann.

Directed by Stephanie Wong.

Written by Jessica Schacht & Paolo Pietropaolo with contributions from Melanie Yeats, Benton Roark, Stephanie Wong & Debi Wong.

Dramaturgy and Casting Direction by Melanie Yeats.

Sound Design by Rebecca Nolan.

Audio Producers, Rebecca Nolan and Olivia Quan.

Creative Producer, Stephanie Wong.

Executive Producer, Debi Wong.

Original concept by Debi Wong & Benton Roark.

Artistic Directors, Debi Wong & Benton Roark.

This project was produced by re:Naissance Opera.

https://reopera.ca/the-apocrypha-chronicles/

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Music from the Apocrypha Chronicles was performed and recorded by Jessica McMann and Benton Roark, with additional performances by Jae-won Bang on violin, Daniel Morphy on percussion, Ellen Marple on trombone, Carole Bestvater on violin, Kate Read on viola, Vernon Regehr on cello, and Bill Brennan on percussion and piano. Additional recording engineering by Michelle LaCour.Excerpts of original works by the following artists:

Renae Morriseau

Tarun Nayar

Desiree Dawson

PIQSIQ

Kyle Gryphon

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In E1 you heard the original song Ogitaadis by Renae Morriseau and Deborah Littlejohn. Ogitaadis is performed by M'Girl (Renae Morriseau, Deanna Gestrin, Kelsey Wavey & Michelle Bardach) and mixed by Adham Shaikh.

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Special thanks to the following people who contributed their stories about leaving to grow:

Waubgeshig Rice

Renae Morriseau

Tarun Nayar

Cassandra Blondin Burt

Angie Eckel

Debi Wong

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Very special thanks to Victor Guerin of Musqueam Nation for sharing his knowledge of the Hun’q’umi’num language and to Cassandra Blondin Burt for sharing their imagination.

This podcast was produced on the stolen lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

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The Apocrypha Chronicles was made possible through generous support from The Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of British Columbia.

This season is dedicated to the memory of Olivia Quan.