Located in San Francisco, Calif. Targeted opening: From Business: California's history is archived here in a library, art collection and bookstore. From Business: Attractive neighborhood where you will find multi-colored Victorian homes. From Business: The Chinese Historical Society of America Museum is the oldest organization in the country dedicated to the interpretation, promotion, and preservation of the…. Co-hosted by The Cultural Conservancy in San Francisco, we are looking forward to expanding and deepening our conversation on the relationship between Indigenous performance and culture.
Indigenous performance often serves to embody and convey power: social, cultural, political, personal, and ecological. In this, we attribute power to performance, and we see performance as potentially empowering of Indigenous people s in terms that are both affirmational and activist.
As Diana Taylor fervently argues in Presente! Performance calls the land into being, and ourselves upon it. In the USA, we see the protests at Standing Rock and the Berkeley Shellmound, for example, as providing paradigmatic platforms for the meeting of the performative with the political.
Through performance, local, national, and global Indigenous movements find ways to take a stand on the land, to claim sovereignty, to assert a rightful place in history, marking the present as a culmination of the past in order to transform the future. What might it mean to perform the act of taking a stand on the land? What can contemporary Indigenous performance make present for us: socially, culturally, politically, personally, ecologically?
How, that is, is performance performative — constructive of memory and identity, of time and place? How does performance re-connect Indigenous peoples to the land? Conversely, how might performance serve to un-settle the colonial identification with and attachment to land? As the climate shifts and with it the earth on which we stand, how can Indigenous performance in the 21st century be seen to touch on commonalities across the differences and particularities of cultures, peoples and places worldwide?
As we gather our acts of performance, bringing our words and dances into the Ka Haka meeting space, how can we come together in celebration, rise from our own places into a place of unification? Friday 15 Nov - 9am Saturday 16 Nov - 9ampm - Conversations, Panel, Closing. Presenters and Topics See full Presenters and Abstracts here. When giving back the land is not enough! Our annual Fall Harvest Gathering will take place this year on October 5! Located at our Native Foodways Garden, we will spend the day harvesting, processing, and cooking the beautiful Native heirloom foods from across Turtle Island that we have stewarded this season.
Come to learn, share, celebrate, and feast with us as we enter a new season on the farm! Please join us for a day of special guests, indigenous teachings, agriculture, seeds, plant medicine, great food and more! A Native Foods lunch will be provided.
Join 30 Native Youth and Artists who express beauty, voice, struggle and claim sovereignty through various traditional and contemporary art forms A unique opportunity to support Native Art. Come enjoy both events! Registration am, Workshops 10ampm Lunch, Dedication and Performances pm.
Terrace level, Third Floor. Apapachandonos: Towards A Lasting Collectivity. In this workshop we will delve through the 13 airs that affect the body, soul and spirit according to Mexican traditional medicine practitioner Estela Roman. We will utilize oral tradition, drawing and creative writing for introspection and release and to get an in depth understanding of how to begin to unknot internalized systems of oppression.
Guardian Facilitator: V. In this workshop you will meet your dream weaver through hypnotherapy. Guardian Facilitator: Virginia Puc. What is your relationship to corn? Join us for an interactive storytelling workshop where we will discuss the hxstory of corn, share our own stories, and make corn husk dolls.
Through this mutual learning, we will remember the importance of corn for cultures across Turtle Island and Abya Yala. Guardian Facilitator: John Jairo Valencia. Together we will be cleansed and nourished for our well being while interacting respectfully with sacred waters. Sharing stories, we will discuss our responsibility in caring for the waters.
Please bring a yoga mat, towel or blanket. Guardian Facilitator: Maya Harjo. Stretch, breathe, dance, feel, and love your body in the now with an open-mind and heart. Feel grounded among the chaos and forget the routine for a while.
Guardians Facilitator: Sienna Ketari. A visual dialogue on the issues affecting us most as indigenous peoples. We bridge old and new media. We facilitate community media trainings and Native media distribution. We provide bridges for intertribal and global indigenous knowledge-sharing through digital archives, media collections and repatriation. This apprenticeship will focus on documentary video, audio, and web content with Native voices and visions.
This apprenticeship is a unique opportunity to work with digital media rooted in indigenous worldviews and processes.
Through hands-on work on real projects, you will participate in telling indigenous stories, spreading indigenous knowledge—such as traditional foodways practices—and using digital storytelling in service of biocultural diversity. The garden thrived for a couple of years, and then during the recession when funding dried up, they lost the space. The 5.
For the past year, TCC has been consulting with local Coastal Miwok, Southern Pomo and Wahpo tribes and elders about the potential layout of the one and a half acre garden, and which species to plant.
Plans for the garden include medicine plants, food plants, and those that are used for basketry. In addition they will be building social spaces and outdoor Tule structure classrooms into the garden. Melissa Nelson in the three sisters garden. This three sisters garden also includes a fourth sister—amaranth. This will be featured even more prominently in the plot of Andean crops that they are working on establishing.
Manzanita berries, one of the wild plants that will be encouraged in the ethnobotanical garden. The berries which look like tiny apples are crushed to make a traditional California Indian cider and jam. Photo by Angelo Baca. TCC has set up a seed bank in a warehouse adjacent to the farm, and is looking forward to providing opportunities for people to cultivate and share these native seeds.
The preservation of Native seeds and food ways has become a central focus of TCC work. Melissa has become involved in the issue on a policy level, delivering speeches at the international Terra Madre gathering, meeting with policy makers, creating manifestos and statements to protect native foods, all in an effort to protect them on a local, national, and international level. Jake, Melissa and John testing a peach with a refractometer to determine the brix, which is the percentage of dissolved solids in fruit, usually sugar.
This fall Melissa is teaching a native science course at San Francisco State University, and her students will be spending a lot of time at the farm. The Cultural Conservancy also received funding for a pilot project that purchases Community Service Learning CSA boxes from the farm, which are then distributed to urban Natives.
TCC is also in discussions with two Native American health centers in San Francisco that are also very interested in incorporating these CSA boxes into their health and nutrition and diabetes prevention programs. In addition, they would like to incorporate more Native food products, even ones traded for or purchased such as blue corn flour from New Mexico Pueblos and Tanka bars from the Lakota-run Tanka Bar company.
The India Free Peach. According to John the orchard manager, this black peach from the southeastern US was introduced by the French when they first attempted to establish colonies in Florida in the 16th century.
Native people quickly adopted them and traded them west to other tribes.
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