Kristi Hansen is a disabled Edmonton Amiskwaciwâskahikan / ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ artist who works in the realms of acting, creating, teaching, directing, and producing.
Kristi was born missing her right fibula and with a short right femur which resulted in several complex surgeries including a Van Nes rotationplasty and a leg-lengthening procedure. Their right foot was eventually amputated when Kristi was 12 years old.
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Kristi is the co-Artistic Director of The Maggie Tree: an ad-hoc theatre collective dedicated to providing opportunity for women artists and artists of underrepresented genders, and the former
co-Artistic Producer of Azimuth Theatre: a professional theatre company dedicated to producing and presenting original Canadian performance that examines society with a critical gaze. She is currently the Associate Artist at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton.
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It is an honour to live and work on Treaty 6 territory: the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations including the Cree, Saulteaux (Ojibway/Anishinaabe), Blackfoot (including Piegan, Blood, Siksika), Métis, Dene Nakoda, Nakota Sioux, Iroquois, and other nations I am still learning of. I’ve lived on Treaty 6 my entire life, growing up in sâskwatôn / ᓵᐢᑲᐧᑑᐣ or Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and then moving to Amiskwaciwâskahikan / ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ or Edmonton, Alberta. I am grateful to the original caretakers of this land for making a treaty of friendship with my Settler ancestors. In the spirit of truth and reconciliation I want to uphold that treaty of peace and friendship, and I believe that must include the reclamation of this land to its original Indigenous caretakers. #LandBack