UPCOMING EVENTS
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 THE NATIVE THEATER FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK CITY
DECEMBER 5 - DECEMBER 9
FREE EVENTS!
The Native Theater Festival is dedicated to supporting and presenting extraordinary theater from today’s Native artists. The festival will include 4 FREE readings, a FREE staged presentation plus one event at Joe’s Pub.
NATIVE THEATER FESTIVAL
From the New York Times, Friday, November 30, 2007 by Steven McElroy
A dedicated New York theater-goer might be justified in thinking that this town has plated host to every kind of theater featival possible, including not only those dedicated to genre (musical, fringe, clown) but also those devoted to artisitc identity (Latino, Asian, gay). But the Public Theater, which doggedly tends to uncover the new, is offering a festival next week featuring the work of American Indian artists from the United States and Canada. Oskar Eustis, the Public's artistic director, created a similar event when he was the artistic director of Trinity Repertory Company in Rhode Island, but this Native Theater Festival is his first time doing it in New York.
"There is clearly a significant number of Native theater artists in this country who are talented and original," Mr. Eustis said in a telephone inteview. "The stories of the Native experience are extraordinary, and yet we have no Native theater movement here."
The festival will include four play readings and one production: "Tales of an Urban Indian," written and performed by Darrell Dennis. It's the tale of an American Indian born on a reservation who is trying to find his way in a big city. the five-day festival also includes postshow discussions with teh authors and other invited guests and a concert by Joy Harjo, above, and the Arrow Dynamics Band at Joe's Pub.
In conjunction with the featival, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York and Washington and the American Indian Community Hose in New York are offering an art market, with original paintings, sculture, jewelry and other items for sale. "My hope is that we're going to start making people aware that there is an exciting boy of artists they don't know about," Mr. Eustis said. (Wednesday through Sunday, Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, 212-967-7555, publictheater.org; free for readings and "Tales of an Urban Indian"; tickets for Joy Harjo and the Arrow Dynamics Band are $12)
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Each reading will be followed by a post-show discussion with the playwright, director and special guests. All readings/staged presentation will be in the Anspacher Theater.
(Joy Harjo, Photo: Paul Abdoo)
Wednesday, December 5 at 7PM
IN A WORLD CREATED BY A DRUNKEN GOD
Written by DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR (OJIBWAY)
DIRECTED BY KENNETCH CHARLETTE (CREE)
While Jason packs up his Toronto apartment, looking forward to starting a new life by moving home to his family’s reserve, he is interrupted by an unannounced visitor who drags him into the past he had long ignored. A finalist for the prestigious Canada Council for the Arts Governor General’s Literary Award.
Post-show Discussion Guests: Terry Gomez (writer/director/actor), Jennifer Podemski (actor/writer/producer), and Randy Reinholz (Artistic Director, Native Voices at the Autry/Interim Director, School of Theatre, Television and Film at SDSU)
Wednesday, December 5 at 9:30PM
SPECIAL JOE'S PUB EVENT
JOY HARJO AND THE ARROW DYNAMICS BAND
Poetry-Rock-Jazz-Reggae Gone Native
Featuring Larry Mitchell, Keith Golden, Alex Alexander and Rober Muller!
Tickets $12. To listen to Joy Harjo’s music, visit joyharjo.com or myspace.com/joyharjo. Please note that Joe's Pub has a $12 food or 2 drink minimum per person. Click here to buy tickets.
Thursday, December 6 at 8PM
SALVAGE
Written by DIANE GLANCY (CHEROKEE)
Directed by SHEILA TOUSEY (MENOMINEE AND STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE)
This dark drama, about lives colliding in the aftermath of a car accident, is also part of the Fall 2007 Festival of New Plays at Los Angeles’ Native Voices at the Autry, where it will premiere next year.
Post-show Discussion Guests: Daniel David Moses (playwright/poet) and Randy Reinholz (Artistic Director, Native Voices at the Autry/Interim Director, School of Theatre, Television and Film at SDSU)
Friday, December 7 at 8PM
A STRAY DOG
Written by WILLIAM S. YELLOW ROBE, JR. (ASSINIBOINE)
Directed by PETER DUBOIS
Alec returns to his home on the reservation and has to fight the ongoing struggle of Tribal recognition with his family, like a stray dog returning to its pack. William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. is one of the leading Native playwrights in the United States.
Post-show Discussion Guests: Hanay Geiogamah (Director of Project HOOP at UCLA), Terry Gomez (writer/director/actor) and Yvette Nolan (Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts)
Saturday, December 8 at 6PM
WINGS OF THE NIGHT SKY, WINGS OF MORNING LIGHT
Written by JOY HARjO (MVSKOKE/CREEK)
Directed by LISA PETERSON
Join us for a sneak-peek at the first piece written for the theater by internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician Joy Harjo, who has performed on “Def Poetry Jam” on HBO, is recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, and has recently received the First Nations Composers Initiative composers grant.
Post-show Discussion Guests: Hanay Geiogamah (Director of Project HOOP at UCLA) and Daniel David Moses (playwright/poet)
Sunday, December 9 at 8PM
STAGED PRESENTATION
TALES OF AN URBAN INDIAN
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY DARRELL DENNIS (SECWEPEMC)
Darrell Dennis tells the tale of Simon Douglas, an Indian born on a reservation and named by the government who tries to find his way in the big city.
Post-show Discussion Guests: Hanay Geiogamah (Director of Project HOOP at UCLA) and Yvette Nolan (Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts)
PARTNER EVENTS:
THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN'S HOLIDAY ART MARKET
Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9, 10AM–5PM
National Museum of the American Indian, Rotunda
One Bowling Green
AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE’S 25TH ANNUAL INDIAN MARKET
December 1–9, 12PM–8PM
Judson Memorial Church
243 Thompson Street (between West 3rd Street & Washington Square South)
NATIVE CALENDARS FEATURE MEN, WOMEN, CULTURE
21st Century Skins, a Native Male Model Calendar with Tatanka Means, Bryan Whish, David Midthunder, Kalani Queypo, Annan Maxfield, Alex Meraz and Jeremiah Bitsui. Cost: $23 (includes $5 for shipping and handling) to: Mihio Manus, 311 N. Bonito St., Flagstaff, AZ 86001. Money orders payable to Mihio Manus. No checks please. You can also purchase by using Paypal (@> > www.paypal.com), and sending the same amount to mihio_manus@yahoo.com. Link: http://mihiomanus.com/21st.php
Women of the Navajo, on what else? No celebs but gals. Cost $21.94 (includes shipping) to Krista Thompson, POB 18244, Fountain Hills, AZ 85269 Link: http://www.swmarketing.net/order_info.html
Bilingual Calendar in Navajo and English. This calendar lists all months, days of the week, holidays, and moon cycles in Navajo and English. Additionally, important Navajo dates, such as Treaty Day, are indicated. (This publishes also has titles by author/painter Baje Whitethorne - my uncle). Cost $18.95 Link: http://www.salinabookshelf.com/store/2006-Bilingual-Calendar-P42C11.aspx
FIRST PEOPLES FUND: Artist-In-Business Leadership Call for Applications
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First Peoples Fund announces the 2006 Artists-In-Business Leadership Call For Applications . Fellowships are offered to members of Tribes from the Northern Great Plains and the Plateau Regions of the United States and Canadian First Nations that have historical and a cultural affiliation within our defined regions.
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NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
April 6-8, 2006
Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort
Operated by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858
The Native American Literature Symposium is the leading Native Studies conference, a Native-run event, at a Native venue. Scheduled to appear is Michelle St. John and "The Scrubbing Project."
Click here for more information.
Readings of Three New Plays Set by Native Voices
December 23, 2005
The release of New Line Cinema's The New World on 12-25-05 will be a little crowded considering that other films showing are Warner's Rumor Has It; Weinstein's Wolf Creek AND The Libertine; Buena Vista's Casanova; Dreamwork's Match Point. Not to mention Weinstein's Hookwinked AND The Matador; Fox's The Ringer; Sony's Cache and Spielberg's Munich which will be released 12-23.
Native Voices at the Autry presents A Continent of Stories, a series of free play readings:
- The Red Road by Arigon Starr on Friday, Nov. 18, 8pm.
- Tombs of the Vanishing Indian by Marie Clements on Saturday, Nov. 19, 8 pm.
- Stone Heart: Everyone Loves a Journey West by Diane Glancy on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2 pm.
Admission to all three readings is free. Reservations are recommended. To RSVP, call 323-667-2000, ext. 354. It will be held at the Museum of the American West - The Native Voices at the Autry's Equity production of Stone Heart is scheduled for a four-week run at the Autry National Center from February 17 through March 12, 2006, before it begins its national tour.
Raven Stories To Be Staged
November 8th-December 16th, 2005
Artistic Director PJ Paparelli and Director of Outreach Ishmael, Hope, both of Juneau's Perseverance Theatre, will journey across Alaska from November 8th to December 16th, 2005, researching and documenting the stories, cultures, and histories of the Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Haida, Inupiaq, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik people for a new theater production, entitiled The Raven Odyssey.
http://www.sitnews.us/1105news/110905/110905_raven.html
Tribeca Deadline Set
December 16, 2005
Connects brings underrepresented filmmakers and writers together with film Deadline: December 16, 2005 funders during the Tribeca Film Festival. 30 directors and screenwriters will be selected to participate in one-on-one meetings with key industry players including development executives, agents, grants managers and equity investors. Filmmakers and writers who identify as African American, Asian American, Latino/a, Native American or Pacific Islander are welcome to submit scripts and documentary proposals for consideration. Apply Now! Visit http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org for complete details.
Haskell Film Fest
December 2-3, 2005
The Stories-N-Motion Film Club here at Haskell Indian Nations University will host it's 2nd Stories-N-Motion Film Festival on the weekend of December 2nd and 3rd, 2005. We are currently seeking submissions and the submission form or just information on the film festival in general can be found on our website: www.stories-n-motion.com
The first one was very successful, selling out a 500 seat venue on opening night and we anticipate the second one to be even bigger.
Seattle Puppet Play Features Raven Story
November 20, 2005
As winter sets in and it seems as if it's dark most of the time, the story of "Raven & the Box of Daylight" seems especially appropriate. Produced by Carter Family Marionettes at the Northwest Puppet Center, in collaboration with Nuu-chah-nulth artist George David, "Raven" tells the story of a greedy Native American chief who steals the sun and keeps it inside a box.
"As they say in the story, life was very difficult to do your chores and get through life without the sun," explains co-director Chris Carter.
Please click here for more information (Adobe PDF Document)
One-Man Play Runs in Los Angeles Through November 19th
Enlightening, witty, energetic and poignant are what I can described in seeing Robert's Greygrass' plays. Well, there's not much time left -- the run ends Nov. 19 in Noho. Invite your students, young people and of course, your friends. The LA Weekly has indicated it's a "GO" to see his works.
http://www.backstage.com/bso/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001348337
The American Indigenous Epiphany Presents:
GHOSTLANDS OF AN URBAN NDN
WALKING ON TURTLE ISLAND
Theatre Unlimited
10943 Camarillo St.
North Hollywood, CA 91020
Reservations: 323-960-7782 or www.plays411.com/ndn
Film Fests
AFI Fest 2005 - Hollywood November 3-13
Link: http://www.afi.com/onscreen/afifest/2005/
8th Annual Native American Film Festival, Columbia SC
Link: http://www.nickelodeon.org/
30th Annual American Indian Film Institute Festival November 5-12, 2005
Link: http://www.aifisf.com/filmfestival.htm
Native American Women in Western Films
Link: http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/
Native Peoples and the New World Study Group/Seminar
As part of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and the Early Modern Studies Institute, the Native Peoples and the New World study group/seminar has been formed to provide an arena for the broad discussion of topics related to Native American history and culture. We hope to include participants from representative disciplines within the humanities, social sciences, law, and environmental studies. Quarterly meetings will vary in topic, ranging from pre-contact to the present, as well as in format, to include guest speakers, discussion of papers, journal articles and books, and symposia, in addition to presentations on the rich availability of research resources from throughout southern California.
If you are interested in being listed as a participant please reply and include any additional contact information. Another email will follow shortly regarding the date and time of our first meeting -- to be held on a Saturday, likely in early September.
website: http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/huntington/working_groups/
Sixth Native American Symposium
November 10-12, 2005
Call For Papers: Abstracts are invited for the Sixth Native American Symposium to be held November 10-12, 2005 at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma. Our featured speakers this year will be Buffy Sainte-Marie and Winona LaDuke. The symposium's theme is Native Women in the Arts, Education, and Leadership, but papers and presentations welcome on all Native American topics and issues, including history, literature, autobiography, film, cultural studies, education, religion, politics, the social sciences, and fine arts. Send one-page abstracts by June 15, 2005 in either hard-copy or electronic form to Dr. Mark B. Spencer, Department of English, Humanities, and Languages, Box 4121, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK 74701-0609, mspencer@sosu.edu.
Spiderwoman Theatre
May 21-September 04, 2005
Spiderwoman Theatre will be opening a career retrospective in May, as part of the "New Tribe, New York" exhibit at the New York site of the National Museum >of the American Indian.
For more information, go to: http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/newtribe/
Click on the words "New Tribe New York" to enter the site.
RED EAGLE SOARING - Summer workshop for teens starts August 15 in Seattle
 
August 15th-26th, 2005
New students especially welcome! We need Native teens who love to perform, (or who are shy and hate to perform), who keep journals and write all the time, who are visual artists and love to paint, who are musicians or dancers. You can share your skills and learn new ones, and help put together a great show for family friends and community
Come join us for our exciting two-week summer workshop for Native teens age 13 - 19 at Daybreak Star. August 15th through 26th with a performance on the 26th.
We also need volunteers, and car-pool drivers, and food contributions, so let us know how you can help!
Send in the registration form right away, or send it back by e-mail. Call with questions 206-323-1868. Click here for the registration form and brochure (PDF Documents).
20TH Annual UCLA POW WOW
May 21-22, 2005
Please join us at the 20th Annual UCLA POW WOW at the UCLA north Athletic Field. All drums and dancers welcome. Drum and dance contest. Dance registration opens Saturday at 9am. Bring your own set-up.
Head Staff: Northen Drum - Stoney Creek Singers (Hollister, NC), Souther Drum - Sizzortail (Shawnee, OK), Arena Director - James Red Eage (Sioux/Assiniboine), Master of Ceremonies - Randy Edmonds (Kiowa/Caddo), Head Woman - Ruth Bayhylle (Pawnee/Choctaw), Head Man - Phil Hale (Navajo), Head Judge - Lambert Yazzie (Navajo), Color Guard - Golden State Gourd Society, Head Gourd - TBA
Saturday, Gourd Dancing at 11am; Grand Entry at 1pm & 7pm; Sunday, Gourd Dancing at Noon, Grand Entry at 1pm. FREE Admission/Open to the Public; Parking in Lot 4 for $7. For more information, please contact the UCLA POW WOW Committee, powwow@ucla.edu, 3201 Campbell Hall, Box 951548, Los Angeles, CA 90096-1548 (website: http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/americanindian)
The Buz'Gem Blues
May 13, 2005
American regional premiere of romantic comedy from Canadian Native writer Trinity Repertory Company is proud to present The Buz'Gem Blues by Drew Hayden Taylor, May 13th through June 19th. Kennetch Charlette , artistic director of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company, will direct. Tickets are on sale at the Trinity Rep box office, (401) 351-4242 and online at www.trinityrep.com . Critics are invited to review on Press Night on Wednesday, May 18th at 7:00PM. For more information, please click here.
Calling From The Smoke
April 12-13, 2005
The Thunderbird Theatre presents Calling From The Smoke by Bruce King at 8:00 p.m. Lawrence Arts Center.
"CALLING FROM THE SMOKE" is a comedy written for the Thunderbird Theatre by Oneida playwright and theatre artist Bruce King. Performances begin at 8:00 pm each evening at the Lawrence Arts Center. General admission is $10.00; Seniors are $8.00; Students are $6.00.
In "CALLING FROM THE SMOKE," the Henhawk family must come to terms with the illusions of the dreams that separate them from their family, community, and history. Nano Bush, a traditional trickster figure from the Northeast calls the family together to present his idea for the next Hollywood blockbuster. Drawn by the allure of "easy money" as a means to happiness, Nano Bush pitches his inspired drama; however, as with many of Nano Bush plans, things don't always turn out as expected.
The play is produced by the Thunderbird Theatre of Haskell Indian Nations University in cooperation with the Lawrence Arts Center, and funded, in part, by a FIPSE grant through Project HOOP, an organization of American Indian theatre professionals and educators based at UCLA.
Questions? Call the Thunderbird Theatre, 749-8433.
Stories-N-Motion Film Club at Haskell Indian Nations University
April 8-10, 2005
The Stories-N-Motion Film Club at Haskell Indian Nations University will be hosting it's first film festival on April 8-10, 2005. All the details of the film festival and how to contact them can be found on their new updated website: www.stories-n-motion.com
Performing "Heritage" - Contemporary Indigenous and Community-Based Practices
March 11-20 , 2005
Since 2000, our Encuentros have been a meeting place for artists, scholars, students, and activists investigating the relation between performance and politics in the Americas. Gathering roughly 300 participants, each Encuentro is part academic conference, part performance festival, part workshop series, and wholly interdisciplinary: it is a concentrated space of experimentation, dialogue, and collaboration, featuring lectures, performances, installations, roundtable discussions, exhibits, video screenings, work groups, and hands-on performance workshops. This next Encuentro on Performing Heritage will explore the production and circulation of notions of identity, traditions, authenticity, rights, cultural access and ownership in the age of globalization. These issues will be clustered under three large umbrella topics that will conceptually frame the keynotes, roundtables, performances, and work groups: 1) Intangible Heritage (the many embodied practices that define a sense of communal or national identity); 2) Cultural Agents (the many ways in which the arts make an intervention in social/political life), and 3) Arts and Markets (the circulation of arts through mass media, scholarship, government venues, etc…). For more details, see the conference website at:
http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/eng/seminar/brazil2005/
Better -n- Indins
January 26-February 26 , 2005
Perishable Theatre presents Better -n- Indins by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. Directed by Bob Jaffe. "It is now 8:00pm. Are you sure the person sitting next to you is not Native?" Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire St., Downtown Providence, RI.
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