Saturday, February 4th, 2012
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JOHNSON THEATER
Friday – Sunday, January 27 – February 5
Friday – Saturday at 8pm, Children’s Matinees Saturday & Sunday at 3pm
All Tickets $10 Adults, $1 Children Under 12 (Matinees only, must be accompanied by paying adult) Proceeds for the Thunderbird Scholarship Fund
THUNDERBIRD AMERICAN INDIAN DANCERS
Annual Dance Concert & Pow-wow
Thunderbird American Indian Dancers will hold their 37th annual Dance Concert and Pow Wow at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, from January 27 to February 5, 2012. The troupe’s appearances benefit college funds for needy Native American students. The company’s Pow-Wows have been presented annually as a two-week event by TNC since 1976, with the box office donated to these funds. There will be dances, stories and traditional music from the Iroquois and Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast, the Southwest, the Plains, and the Arctic regions. Between 15 and 20 dancers will assemble for the event.
Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago) is Master of Ceremonies at Thunderbird American Indian Dancers’ annual Dace Concert and Pow-Wow at Theater for the New City. Photo (2011) by Lee Wexler/Images for Innovation.
Highlights will include Storytelling by Coatlique Theatre (Elvira and Hortensia Colorado, from the Chichimec tribe), a Hoop Dance performed by Marie McKinney (Cherokee), a Caribou Dance (from the Inuit people of Alaska), a Buffalo Dance (from the Hopi people), a Grass Dance and Jingle Dress Dance (from the Northern Plains people), a Stomp Dance (from the Southeastern tribes), and a Shawl Dance (from the Oklahoma tribes). Featured performers will include the Heyna Second Son Singers (various tribes). In the final section of the program, the audience will be invited to join in the Round Dance, a friendship dance.
Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Annual Dance Concert and Pow-Wow at Theater for the New City, NYC. (L) Carlos Ponce/Eagle Feather (Mayan) and (R) Alan Browne/Shooting Star (Delaware/Dutch). Photo by Lee Wexler/Images for Innovation (2011).
After matinees, the cast will remain in the theater to personally meet the children attending and be photographed with them. This component of the show was inspired by the troupe’s school residencies. Says Louis Mofsie, the Thunderbirds’ artistic director, "Educators try to supplement the kids’ knowledge of Native Americans and to teach them about different cultures. But the emphasis is on how we used to live, in the past tense. The kids are never taught how to relate to us in the present. Now they can meet us, and be photographed with us, and it’s present tense. It’s more than just seeing us on stage." He adds, "Learning about different cultures is important to enlarging the kids’ perspective, particularly in light of what’s going on in the world. We’re in trouble today because we don’t understand different cultures."
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
February 11 and 12, 2012
Native American singing, dancing, arts, crafts and foods
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
Little Creek Casino Resort presents the 4th annual Sa’Heh’Wa’Mish Days Powwow.
February 18th & 19th at the Skookum Creek Event Center
EVERYONE WELCOME! Over $38,000 in prizes
Grand Entry Times: Saturday 1pm & 7pm, Sunday 1pm
Dance Competitions: Prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd
DRUM CONTEST: 1st-$5000, 2nd-$4000, 3rd-$3000
MC: Ray Fryberg (Tulalip), Arena Directors: Sonny Eaglespeaker (Blood) & Casey Mac Wallahee (Yakama)
Head Dancers: Nathan Nez & JoVelle Pacheco
SATURDAY SPECIALS: Owl Dance, Switch Dance, 7-12 Boys & Girls and Tiny Tots
Vendor Space Available call 360-432-3841
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Jul 14, 2012 – Jul 15, 2012, Prescott, AZ – Fine traditional and contemporary artwork. An all-Indian artist jury chooses participants on the basis of quality in both traditional and contemporary styles.
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Jun 16, 2012 – Jun 17, 2012, Pinetop, AZ – More than 50 of the Southwest’s finest American Indian artists will display and sell their handmade jewelry, paintings, rugs and other authentic Indian artwork. This is a juried event.
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
May 26, 2012 – May 28, 2012, Prescott, AZ – Arizona’s premiere outdoor western fine art show and sale featuring more than 120 of the very best western artists from around the country.
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
May 19, 2012 – May 20, 2012, Morrison, CO – Award winning Native American artists show and sell their fine arts at this quality juried show. Artists share their arts with visitors throughout the day in impromptu and planned demonstrations.
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Mar 3, 2012 – Mar 4, 2012, Phoenix, AZ – The Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market is a world-acclaimed festival that draws nearly 20,000 visitors and more than 700 of the nation’s most outstanding and successful American Indian artist
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Feb 17, 2012 – Feb 19, 2012, Carefree, AZ – Juried All Native American Art Market consisting of up to 100 exhibitors.
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Feb 10, 2012 – Feb 12, 2012, Litchfield Park, AZ – Award winning festival showcases 80 of the finest Native American, Western and Southwestern Artists in a stunning outdoor gallery.
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