Thurs April 26 to Sun April 29 | 5:00 pm

Single Tickets $18 | Full-time Students $12 

Legion of Memory

The Former Kitchener Legion, 48 Ontario Street North

Legion of Memory explores the stories of war refugees who have come to live in the Kitchener-Waterloo region from former Yugoslavia. A site-specific event, this performance attempts to animate the displacement of the refugee, while exploring the problem of war memorial in Canada today. Legion of Memory creates a link between the war veteran and the refugee by having them meet in an abandoned Legion Hall. Both the veteran and refugee are happy to embrace a life free from war, yet both are also haunted by memories of a life damaged by war. While the veteran seeks to forget the trauma by drinking himself into a stupor regularly at the Legion Hall, he also feels an obligation to memorialize by ensuring that war and its sacrifices are not forgotten. Similarly, the Refugee seeks to commit to a daily act of forgetting a life ripped from war, yet, there is a longing to preserve the memories of the family, career, history and culture left behind.