Tantoo Cardinal's Tap Root Actors Academy

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Tantoo Cardinal's Tap Root Actors Academy

Tap Root Actors Academy is a Métis focused, community based acting & filmmaking academy located in Kikino Métis Settlement.

Tap Root is designed to give youth the experience of telling their own stories. A constant flow of Guests and Knowledge Sharers will guide them in acting, storytelling, language, and culture while they spend the summer creating for the stage and screen. Tap Root invites Parents, Relatives, and Community members to help replenish the artists of our communities by offering their time, stories, and spaces for storytelling and volunteering.

04/20/2025

Day 7 (Final Day) of our Puppet Week with Patrick Zung & Nora Rogers.

We send a heartfelt thank you to Nora & Patrick for taking the time to travel all the way to Kikino from North Carolina for the week! Your mentorship and support is appreciated beyond measure.

Thank you to Donna & Jack Lynis for the tasty catering all week.

04/19/2025

Day 6 of our Puppet week with Nora Rogers & Patrick Zung with Amanda Strong joining.

Our youth begun dressing their puppets in costumes they spent the week creating and started sculpting heads & hair for their armatures.

Thank you to Jack & Donna Lynis for the tasty catering.

04/18/2025

Day 5 of our Puppet Workshop Week with Patrick Zung & Nora Rogers with Amanda Strong joining us today!

Our youth spent the day building hands and heads for their armatures & created all kinds of costume pieces for their puppets.

Thanks to Jack & Donna Lynis for the tasty catering.

04/16/2025

Day 4 of our Puppet Workshop with Patrick Zung & Nora Rogers.

Today our youth continued working in their puppet armatures and costumes.

Our youth had the best day, learning, laughing and dancing with Patrick & Nora.

Thank you to Jack & Donna Lynis for the tasty catering.

04/16/2025

Day 3 of our Puppet Workshop with Patrick Zung & Nora Rogers.

Today our youth focused on building their armatures up with foam/ glue and sewing puppet costumes by hand.

Our youth did incredible focused work & leaned heavily on their creativity.

Thank you to Jack & Donna Lynis for catering our week of workshops.

Thank you to both Nora & Patrick for the amazing support and encouragement.

04/15/2025

Day 2 of our Puppet Workshop with Patrick Zung & Nora Rogers.

Our youth had hands on mentoring with the creation of puppets & puppet costumes.

Everyone did amazing tackling a whole new skill today.

Thank you to our wonderful facilitators for taking the time to share your creativity, knowledge and skills with our youth.

04/14/2025

Today we gathered with guest mentors Patrick Zung & Nora Rogers who are joining us for a week of Stop Motion Animation Puppet Creation.

Our youth learned about what it takes to create a puppet, how to design a puppet based upon a script and what supplies to utilize to build a puppet.

Thank you to our incredibly talented Creators & Designers Patrick & Nora for dedicating their time and energy to mentoring our youth this week.

04/07/2025

Today we gathered with our youth for a drop in day.

Thanks to Sophia & Adelle for mentoring our youngest youth, focusing on improv and games.

Our oldest youth met to discuss their future programming wishes and to share ideas on stories they hope to tell.

Thank you to Leigha White for the tasty homemade buns.

04/03/2025

We Thank you.

A major thank you to our parent fundraising committee: Joni White, Parker Cardinal, Kim Poitras, Danielle & Adam Lynis, Lois Thompson, Phyllis Erasmus.

These parents did all of the fundraising work. They organized a bingo, a dine and dance, square boards, cooked all of the food & organized the kitchen & concessions (Phyllis & Cadence) and sought out donations. They also donated tons of prizes, decorations, food, etc.

They did a fantastic job fundraising for their children and themselves to participate in our journey to Maoriland Film Festival.

Thank you to Kikino Metis Settlement Council: Chad Cardinal, Scott Cardinal, David Thompson, Lee Thom & Randy Hardy for supporting our delegation on this journey.

Thank you to Administration: Roger Littlechilds & Karen Bellerose White for supporting our delegation on this journey.

We thank these folks for helping and donating their time to support this journey: thank you to Lindsay McLintock, Gerald Brereton, Lynda Dwyer, Brad White, Delilah Potts, Melvina Thompson, Chasity Desjarlais, Zoey & Chloey White, Tracy White, Shelley & Tim Cardinal.

We thank these folks and businesses for donations provided to the fundraising efforts: Jack’s on 2nd (Jack & Donna Lynis), Lee’s Burger Baron, Incredi-Bull Rodeo, Bulls-Eye, Lac La Biche Home Hardware, Lac La Biche Co-op Gas, Bess & Dave Bliss, Karen White Bellerose, Jay Poitrais & Doreen Lavallee, Lindsay McLintock.

Thank you to Capo on 2 (Danielle & Adam Lynis, Dean & Darlene Thompson, Barbi & Donald Cornelius, Karen Bellerose White, Brad White) for donating your set time for our fundraising event.

Thank you to Edcon Power Tongs & Oilfield Services Ltd. (Jay Hawrysh) for making a fiscal donation to the fundraising efforts.

Thank you to Chedkor Contracting Ltd. (Barry & Blake Chwedorak) for donating Oilers tickets to be raffled off towards our fundraising efforts.

Thank you to all of the friends, family and community members who showed up to the fundraising events, bought tickets to the squares, raffles etc. We couldn’t do this without you.

To anyone we may have forgotten, just know we’re incredibly grateful and thankful for your support.

Thank you to our youth, for putting in all of the hard-work, dedication and commitment to telling these stories that are the heartbeat of all of the experiences we’re all so fortunate to share and celebrate.

-The TRAA Team.

03/29/2025

Yesterday we had our premiere of our short film Last Summer.

Congratulations to all of our youth on such an amazing achievement, having your films presented to New Zealand audiences.

Thank you to the festival team for supporting our time at and for hosting such incredible events. We have had such a blast at the festival.

We spent the day meeting so many indigenous storytellers. Watching so many incredible films. Congratulations to all who have had films in the festival.
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03/28/2025

TRAA Delegation takes on
Today our short film Culture Shock premiered to New Zealand audiences. We were so proud to showcase Culture Shock to local community, other filmmakers and maoriland festival team members.

We invited a Māori elder (he asked us to call him mātua) to our showcases and he showed up to support our youth and their films. We were all so grateful to hear his experience of watching our film.

It’s been a real deadly day!

03/28/2025

HĀ Kokowai Workshop today with our TRAA delegation at the

Thank you to the organizers and the team for hosting the beautiful event & welcoming our delegation so warmly.

We graciously thank you for sharing your stories with us.

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Kikino, AB

Website

https://www.taprootactorsacademy.com/

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