What would it be like to walk 700km with someone?
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Green Light Arts presents 7th Cousins the final performance of our 2017-2018 season! Written and performed by Christine Brubaker and Erin Brubacher. This a 4 performance run, so make sure to come out and see the show this weekend! Tickets are $20 and the show is being held at the Conrad Grebel University Chapel at 140 Westmount Road North in Waterloo, ON.
When theatre creators Erin Brubacher and Christine Brubaker met, they decided to make something together, based on no more or less than a shared name.
After discovering the story of a common ancestor, who arrived in Ontario on foot in the early 1800s, these two secular women began plotting an adventure to walk the same 700 kms, through what's now the Bible Belt of Pennsylvania, tracing the migration of their Mennonite ancestors to Brubacher House, here in Waterloo Region.
The journey quickly became an active exploration of how to be together. In the evenings, Erin and Christine were welcomed into homes and treated with the care of family, despite the fact that they shared no obvious common ground with their hosts along the way. During the days, while the pair walked, they navigated their own relationship: Facing the challenges of being with another person for 32 days, all day and night.
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