We are Wild Roots Theatre
(formerly Green Kids).
If you’re looking for sustainable theatre and workshops that address climate change and its causes, you’ve come to the right place.
Upcoming Event:
Bike and Circuses: Magic Hour
at Nuit Blance, September 26th, 2026
Bike and Circuses - Magic Hour offers a new twist on a signature Wild Roots event, stretching performances into the dark. Located on The Forks grounds, near the foot of L'Esplanade Riel, this circus offers acrobatic spin-class enthusiasts cycling through time, dancers navigating rock and tree, lively talk show hosts ready to chat, and a sensational circus barker to direct your attention. The event will offer equal parts spectacle and environmental awareness, with performances bringing to light themes related to climate change and sustainability.
This 45-minute show consists of 3 distinct performance pieces and repeats every hour. Come and go as you please or stay for a cycle!
Encouraging Creative Activism and Positive Change
Using performing arts as our medium, we allow audiences to imagine, empathize, and laugh, all while gaining a better understanding of environmental issues and their root causes. Inspiring families, kids and adults alike to be gentler on our planet, encouraging creative activism and positive change.
THEATRE THAT INSPIRES
Workshops that Educate
Since 1991, Wild Roots Theatre has produced professional theatre for families and young audiences, featuring a host of Winnipeg’s brightest performing artists and craftspeople.
ABOUT US
Founded in 1991, Wild Roots Theatre is a Winnipeg-based, incorporated charitable theatre organization dedicated to environmental education through performance—what we proudly call Theatre for the Planet. Starting out as activists, we have grown to offer programming for kids, families and the general public, creating participatory theatrical experiences that make environmental and community issues feel real, urgent, and personal.
We explore environmental science through theatre, allowing participants to imagine, empathize and laugh, all while understanding the serious issues we face. We inspire audiences and participants to be gentler on our planet, giving them both hope and accountability through meaningful yet simple changes in daily habits, with tangible goals. Our programming is informative, realistic, and optimistic, emphasizing community spirit and individual action, with the message that every little bit of help is an invaluable contribution.
We strive to inspire young people and their families to be gentler on our planet, giving them both hope and accountability through meaningful yet simple changes in daily habits, with tangible goals.
Our Mandate
Our mandate is to create artistic, engaging and memorable theatrical experiences that promote environmental stewardship and empower people of all ages to participate in climate protection. Grounded in sustainable practices, we are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in all the work we do.
Our Mission
Our artistic mission is to inspire positive change through performance, helping audiences imagine, empathize, and connect with the urgent environmental issues facing our planet.
Our Method
Through love of theatre -story, play, and emotional engagement- we elicit connection and real action.
Land Acknowledgment
Wild Roots Theatre operates on unceded land in Treaty One Territory. This is the home of Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, Long Plains First Nation, Peguis First Nation, Roseau River Anishinaabe First Nation, Sagkeeng First Nation, Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation, Swan Lake First Nation and the birthplace of the Red River Métis.
We acknowledge that the treaties were not signed in good faith by the colonial powers, nor were the agreements held on their end, which continues to harm Indigenous peoples and communities to this day.
We acknowledge that our drinking water in the City of Winnipeg is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, a community who from 1997 until just a few years ago lived under a boil water advisory, while Winnipeggers used this resource from their land with little thanks and no reciprocity. We also acknowledge that most of our hydro-electricity comes from Treaty Five Territory in northern Manitoba, where the building of hydro dams and their existence has created long-term ecological changes for plant and animal species and for the Indigenous communities who called the areas home. Tataskweyak Cree Nation is fighting to save the sturgeon impacted by Manitoba Hydro's Churchill River Diversion. They've started a petition that you can find on Wild Roots Theatre's Facebook page.
Wild Roots Theatre is working to educate and inspire future generations of environmental stewards, while following the lead of Indigenous knowledge keepers and water and land protectors, the original environmentalists on this land.
Funders
We are honoured to have project support from the following:
Partners
We are proud to have in-kind partnerships with:
Memberships
We hold memberships to these amazing organizations:
