Play About Indigenous Water Walkers Has Two Performances in Akron Area

Sat 5/18 @ 2PM

Sun 5/19 @ 2PM

 Playwright/environmental activist Sharon Day is an enrolled member of the Minnesota-based Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe and an indigenous “water walker,” a person who carries water from place to place to awaken people to the importance of protecting rivers, lakes and oceans. Her play, We Do It for the Water: Ziibin Bemidjiwan – The River Flows, uses narrative and music to tell the story of an Ojibwe water walker and offer a message of hope for reconnection to water, our environment and other people.

Directed by Dipankar Mukherjee, the play will be performed at Cascade Valley Metro Park on Saturday May 18 and at Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s Howe Meadow on Sunday May 19. Get tickets here for Saturday’s performance and here for Sunday’s.

1212 Cuyahoga St, Akron, OH 44313

4040 Riverview Road, Peninsula, OH 44264

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