The University of Colorado at Boulder will offer a variety of events in honor of Native American Awareness Week April 15-20 including a children's Pow Wow, a concert and a session with storyteller and magician Autumn Morning Star.
All activities are free and open to the public and were organized by Oyate, CU-Boulder's indigenous student organization. This year's events focus on the performing arts, according to Theresa Halsey, Oyate's community adviser.
The Visiting Artist Committee of the CU-Boulder fine arts department will feature an unprecedented roster of Native American artists at the Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building starting April 2. Each of the artists will conduct a free public lecture on Tuesday of the week they are in residence at 7:30 p.m. in Sibell Wolle room N141.
Native American Awareness Week events will include:
o April 3, 7:30 p.m., Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building room N141, lecture by Victor Masayesva, a Hopi-based video artist who repositions ethnographic interpretations of Hopis. Masayesva will be in residence April 2-6.
o April 15, noon to 5 p.m., Children's Pow Wow in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom
o April 15, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., concert featuring folk singer Annie Humphrey and the band The Atoll in the UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom.
o April 16, 7 p.m., presentation by A. Ross on "Crazy Horse and the Real Reason For the Battle of the Little Big Horn" in the UMC Forum Room.
o April 17, 7:30 p.m., Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building room N141, lecture by Charlene Touchette, a Metis painter who explores feminist-matriarchal themes as an artist, activist, writer and founder of Spiderwoman World Arts Networks. Touchette will be in residence April 16-20.
o April 18, 8 p.m., Autumn Morning Star, storyteller and magician, UMC Forum Room.
o April 19, 7 p.m., Native Art Show, UMC room 305. The show is dedicated to Leah Kelly, who died last summer. Kelly was a CU-Boulder alumna and the wife of CU-Boulder Professor Ward Churchill. She was a filmmaker and photographer.
o April 20, 7 p.m., Kevin Locke hoop dancing and flute performance, UMC Forum Room.
o April 24, 7:30 p.m., Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building room N141, lecture by Truman Lowe, an Obijiway-Winnebago who examines linear time constructions through materials that are suggestive of ancient ancestral effigies and ceremonial mounds. He is a professor of sculpture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a curator at the Smithsonian's Museum of the Native American Indian. Lowe is in residence the week of April 23-27.
Native American Awareness Week was organized by the CU Oyate Indian Club and sponsored by the Cultural Events Board, UCSU, CUPD, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, the Office of the Chancellor, the President's Fund for Student Affairs, the President's Fund for the Support of Diversity, the College of Arts and Sciences, Arts and Sciences Student Government, American Indian Advocacy, Dennis Small Cultural Center, fine arts department, Boulder Campus Staff Council, CU Bookstore and CU Housing.
For more information call Theresa Halsey at (303) 447-5074, e-mail indian_voices@hotmail.com or visit the Indian Voices Newsletter Web site at .