‘We’ve been tokenized’: Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s entire Indigenous advisory circle resigns
Members of an Indigenous advisory committee at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet say they’re cutting ties with the organization after seven years.
The Indigenous advisory circle — comprising lawyer Danielle Morrison, two-spirit elder Albert McLeod and University of Winnipeg professor Kevin Lamoureaux — resigned en masse along with a board member via letter on Friday afternoon.
The advisory circle, formed in 2018, was intended to make Canada’s oldest ballet company “a more equitable, diverse and inclusive organization,” the ballet’s website says.
What the Hell? Why is cultural appropriation always a one-way street?
