Omote (面): Shion Skye Carter + Miya Turnbull
Omote (面): Shion Skye Carter + Miya Turnbull
Omote (面): Shion Skye Carter + Miya Turnbull
October 30
7 PM – 8:30 PM
Casa Community Room
$12.58 for Students | $23.76 for General Admission
Omote (面) is a co-creation between Vancouver dance artist Shion Skye Carter and Halifax mask maker Miya Turnbull.
Miya and Shion explore their mixed Japanese Canadian heritage with a myriad of deeply expressive hand-crafted and personalized masks. The choreography serves to collate and contrast their experiences and family histories, while evoking the intimate and ritualistic nature of Japanese traditions.
Their performance challenges traditional ideas of beauty, while gestures and tableau articulate the Japanese concept of ‘honne’ (a person’s true feelings) and ‘tatemae’ (their public face). Omote (面) translates to both ‘surface/face’ and ‘mask’, and explores multitudes of layers of being and the self, manipulating what is revealed and what is hidden, honing in on the churning, transitory nature of identity with over one hundred handcrafted masks.
2 performances will take place at Casa Arts Centre (Community Room), Lethbridge, Alberta.
Thursday, Oct 29th, 2026: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Friday, Oct 30th, 2026: 7:00pm-8:30pm
General Admission and Student Pricing available (*Note: Artists and underwaged folks can also use the student pricing) No one turned away for lack of funds.
Buy your tickets online HERE.
Date:October 30th, 2026
Time:7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Fee:$12.58 for Students | $23.76 for General Admission
Location:Casa - Community Room
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