{"id":121654,"date":"2022-10-20T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=121654"},"modified":"2022-10-20T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:30:42","slug":"six-nations-play-blood-sport-explores-indigenous-identity-highlights-pretend-ians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/six-nations-play-blood-sport-explores-indigenous-identity-highlights-pretend-ians\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations play &#8216;Blood Sport&#8217; explores Indigenous identity, highlights &#8216;pretend-ians&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Six Nations poet and media producer's play is being shown at a festival in New York City this month.<\/p>\n<p>January Rogers' <em>Blood Sport <\/em>recently had a reading on Oct.1 at the Rattlestick Theater in the west village New York City, as part of the Northeastern Native Arts Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The play deals with the topic of Indigenous identity and \u201cpretend-ians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Using a game show as the basis for her play, Rogers says pretend Indians, or \"pretend-ians,\" is having a \u201cmoment.\u201d Rogers is the artist who also brought the community the play <em>NDN\u2019s on the Airways<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Blood Sport<\/em> will be having a second reading in Canada on Nov. 4 in Hamilton at 7:30 p.m.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To learn more about the play and tickets, visit Theatre Aquarius or Red Beti theatre's websites for information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the Compelling Conversation with host David Moses and January Rogers for CKRZ FM below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Six Nations poet and media producer&#8217;s play is being shown at a festival in New York City this month. January Rogers&#8217; Blood Sport recently had a reading on Oct.1 at the Rattlestick Theater in the west village New York City, as part of the Northeastern Native Arts Festival. The play deals with the topic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":121644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,16830],"tags":[758,1890,2150,980,7743],"radio":[13053],"origine":[267,13048,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121654"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122708,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121654\/revisions\/122708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121654"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=121654"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=121654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}