Savage Society

We tell our own stories sourcing myth, tradition and the contemporary Indigenous experience.

Savage Production Society is an Indigenous-led multidisciplinary producing company. It is an artistic incubator and home for Indigenous artists to create original work—both contemporary and traditional. The organization was established in 2008 as an ad-hoc organization by founding Artistic Director Kevin Loring (Nlaka’pamux Nation from the Lytton First Nation). We were incorporated as a registered not-for-profit society in 2013 to support organizational and artistic growth.

Artistic milestones include world premiere of Where the Blood Mixes (co-presented with the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company) during the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, co-production of the Pipeline Project (with Itsazoo), Savage Music Series, Skookum Series with The Massey Theatre, Songs of the Land: the annual community and artist collaboration project sourcing traditional stories and culture of the N’laka’pamux people, and multiple local, provincial and national festival presentations. The most recent milestone is the development support of the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund to support the large-scale/one-woman show: Quelemia Sparrow’s (Musqueam) Skyborn. The world premiere of Skyborn was at the 2020 PuSh Festival. Other current projects include the forthcoming premiere of Taran Kootenhayoo’s (Denesuline and Nakoda Sioux) White Noise, Kevin Loring’s Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer and the continued development of Tai Amy Grauman’s (Metis, Cree and Haudenosaunee) You Used to Call me Marie.