Debajehmujig Storytellers of Manitoulin Island has won a Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in the Arts Organization category.
Premier Kathleen Wynne is honouring exceptional contributions by artists and arts organizations from across Ontario.
Debajehmujig Storytellers is one of Canada’s foremost Indigenous creation companies and the country’s first, and only, professional theatre company located on a reserve, Wikwemikong Unceded Territory.
The company shares the Anishinaabek language, culture and heritage with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people through original creative expression.
Eleanor McMahon, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, announced the winners of the 2017 Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts at a ceremony earlier this week.
