The Savage Society’s 2025 Annual Report highlights a highly successful year of storytelling and community engagement rooted in traditional and contemporary Indigenous perspectives.

 

Operating on multiple unceded traditional territories, the organization remains dedicated to core values like story sovereignty, community activation, and cultural embodiment.

Actors of The Council of Spider, Ant & Fly

Justice, S. (2025). [Actors of The Council of Spider, Ant & Fly] [Photograph]. Savage Society.

Key highlights from the report include:
    • Theatrical Successes: Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer reached 5,500 audience members across Kamloops, Vancouver, and Oliver, while You used to call me Marie… brought in 3,986 audience members across a six-city tour.
    • Public Art Presentations: The Largest Coast Salish Welcome Figure, a unique light projection installation by visual artist Brandon Gabriel, was commissioned by the City of New Westminster.
    • Community-Led Works: Songs of the Land, our annual community-based project, featured the story “The Council of Spider, Ant & Fly” with participants from the Lytton First Nation.
    • Financial Growth: Total revenue represented a 27% increase from 2024 driven by increased guarantee fees and touring grants.

 

Read the 2025 Annual Report here.