The Last Sunday – March 30, 2021

Lancelot Knight is a Plains Cree, singer songwriter from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He has toured in Germany, travelled to New Zealand and across North America. Spanning genres and all forms of artistry, He also plays guitar for his fathers band Chester Knight and the wind, and toured with Joey Stylez. Lancelot Knight Recently co-created the play Reasonable Doubt. 

Janelle "ecoaborijanelle" Pewapsconias (she/her) is a nehiyaw spoken word artist, mother, and social innovator based in Little Pine First Nation. As an artist she practices, organizes and continues on the cultural tradition of oral and spoken word storytelling about Indigenous survivance and connection to land.
Poetry Instagram: @_ecoaborijanelle
More Information: www.linktr.ee/ecoaborijanelle 

Troy Cooper, M.O.M.
Chief of Police, Saskatoon Police Service

Chief Cooper joined the Prince Albert Police Service in 1987 and graduated as the top academic recruit in 1988. After 31 years with Prince Albert, Chief Cooper was sworn to the office of the Chief of Police for the Saskatoon Police Service on February 28, 2018.

In addition to being awarded Exemplary Service and Protective Services medals, he is the recipient of the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and is a Member of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces.

Chief Cooper has a certificate in Police Leadership Administration from Dalhousie University, a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Criminal Justice from Athabasca University and a Masters of Business Administration focused on policing and security from Charles Sturt University. Chief Cooper is a graduate of the Canadian Police College Executive Development Program and the Senior Management Institute for Police at Boston University.

Chief Cooper is a Member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and the Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of Police. He sits on the National Police Services National Advisory Committee, is the Chair of the Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of Police Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Committee, the Chair of the Saskatchewan Chapter of the Interoperability Interest Group and a member of the Restorative Action Program Board of Directors.

Roy Challis - Born outside a famous racetrack in Surrey, England; emigrated to Canada just before the launch of Sputnik into orbit; been running in circles ever since trying to avoid manual labour and the inevitable taxman …

Father of three grown children, grandfather to six, author of several plays, poetry, and short fiction; presently living in North Battleford with his wife Donna where he writes, directs, produces, and teaches theatre performance. 

Melanie was last seen in The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood, directed by Yvette Nolan. Previously she appeared in Where it Hurts by Wendy Lockman and has often read for Last Sunday put on by Sum Theatre. In the Short Cuts Festival, she has worked both as a director and actor in plays by Todd Devonshire, Terry Jordan and Lauren Holfluer.

Melanie has also worked in theatre and film in Vancouver and Montreal and holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University and works as an Early Childhood Educator. Other interests include gardening and playing the mandolin.

After six years in Edmonton it's nice to be back in Saskatoon for awhile, hanging out with my sister and reconnecting. I'm happy for this chance to be a small part of sum theatre. Keep walking, and give each other a hand. Spring is here.

Madeleine Blais-Dahlem was born and raised in Saskatchewan, in the shadow of the Eagle Hills west of Battleford. She studied at the University of Saskatchewan and after a joyful career in teaching French and English at the secondary level, she eased into her childhood dream of become a writer. She formed a theatre company with her high school students (Les Calembours) and for ten years, competed annually in a theatre festival, always with an original play. She then developed a relationship with La Troupe du Jour, Saskatchewan’s only professional French language theatre, that produced three of her adult plays : Foyer (Almost Home) in 2005, Les vieux péteux (Old Farts) in 2008 and La Maculée(sTain) in 2011. In 2012, La Maculée received a SATA for Exceptional Playwrighting, it was invited to WPIC in Stockholm, Sweden and was showcased in Ottawa at a Festival of New Plays. Madeleine had her first novel, La voix de mon père /My Father’s Voice published in 2015 in a bilingual format. It was awarded Le prix du livre français by Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2017. It was recently produced as an audio book, the first Saskatchewan publication in French or English to receive that treatment.
Photo credit to Lightline Photograph