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7th Cousins : An Automythography, Paperback / softback Book

7th Cousins : An Automythography Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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From July 7th to August 6th, 2015, we walked 700 kilometres, from Pennsylvania to Ontario.

A stranger asked if we were walking to learn how to work and be together.

This was certainly part of it. In July 2015, Erin Brubacher and Christine Brubaker, two politically left, secular, Canadian women traced the migration route of their Mennonite ancestors by walking from Pennsylvania to Ontario, through the American Bible Belt.

Along the way they were hosted by a series of people with whom they had next to nothing in common.

They were welcomed into strangers' homes and treated as family.

On their journey they encountered folks with religious and political beliefs very different from their own and learned to question what conversations to enter and how far to take them.

They accomplished this and so much more while navigating their own relationship and the challenges of being with another person, on foot, for 32 days. 7th Cousins: An Automythography documents the walk itself and the performance text they generated afterwards.

Included throughout are photo essays from the journey and commentaries from their collaborators Christopher Stanton, Andrea Nann, Kaitlin Hickey and Erum Khan. Praise for 7th Cousins:"7th Cousins is a sharp, very personal and insightful work of documentary theatre that embodies a kind of honest female friendship that is so important to experience in our current moment, as well as a journey into the U.S. that gives trenchant insights far beyond what I was expecting." —Jacob Wren, author of Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART and Rich and Poor

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