10/21/2026
"Water Words", a play for kids aged 6 and up, featuring different forms of puppetry and live music has with only one performance this Friday, Oct. 23 at 6 pm at the Rossland Miners Hall.
Learn more about the amazing creators and performers of Water Words, A Djarma (Senegal) and Motus (quebec) production.
Mamby Mawine began her career in theater in 1994, and in 2005 she founded the DJARAMA association with her husband, Alessandro Fanni. DJARAMA is a youth arts center dedicated to research, training, and creation in the fields of circus arts, theater, and puppetry, located in Ndayane, near Dakar. Today she is the artistic director of the Djaram’Arts Cultural Center, a director, and a trainer for theater for young audiences.
Hélène Ducharme is the co-artistic and general director of her company Motus, founded 25 years ago.
As a writer, director, actress, and puppeteer, she has written, co-written, or co-adapted all of the company’s productions and directed the majority of them. She presents bold texts to young audiences and explores, through her productions, her passion for puppetry, dramatic performance, and shadow theater.
Dramane Dembélé, known as Popimane, comes from a family of griot musicians in Burkina Faso. At age 16, he discovered his instrument: the Peul flute.
In 2005, he moved to France, where he founded the Mandinka Afro-funk group Kalognouma with his collaborator Jérôme Jouanic. He also met Sotigui Kouyaté, one of Peter Brook’s favorite actors and griots. Since then, he has composed music for dance and theater, working with various directors and choreographers around the world. His solo album État d’esprit was released in April 2023 on the Asymetric Sounds label.
Tickets $16 kids, $20 adults.
Tickets are available online at purchase.trail-arts.com, by phone at 250-368-9669, and in person at the Rossland Miners Hall before the show. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
Presented by and the Trail Arts Council.
