Native Voices
NATIVE VOICES at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, a literary event, will be held November 18 from 7-8:30 pm in the auditorium at SebArts and will feature Native poetry from Lucille Lang Day, Dave Holt, Linda Noel, Kurt Schweigman and a panel discussion offering an indigenous perspective on the environment, followed by a discussion with the audience, drumming and more.
Panelists, "Indigenous Perspectives on the Environment":
Olivia Dancel (Comanche/Yaqui) is an artist whose work reflects who she is as a Native American woman with deep connections to the natural world and her cultural traditions.
Dr. Brenda Flyswithhawks (Tsalági Eastern Cherokee) is an environmental activist, professor of psychology at Santa Rosa Junior College, and traditional dancer, singer, drummer, and storyteller.
Rose Hammock (Pomo and Wailacki) is a Native American leader, activist, and educator. She dances with her community and serves as a tutor and mentor for Native American youth.
Poetry reading by contributors to Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016).
Lucille Lang Day (Wampanoag) is the author of eleven poetry collections and chapbooks, most recently Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place, and a coeditor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California.
Dave Holt (Ojibwe), originally from Canada, is a musician and songwriter in addition to being a poet whose book Voyages to Ancestral Islands received an Artists Embassy International Literary/Cultural Arts Award.
Linda Noel (Koyoonk’auwi), former Poet Laureate of Ukiah, has work in Joy Harjo’s When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (2020) and many other anthologies.
Kurt Schweigman (Oglala Lakota), coeditor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, has been a featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and was the first spoken-word poet to receive an Archibald Bush Foundation individual artist fellowship.
NATIVE VOICES at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, a literary event, will be held November 18 from 7-8:30 pm in the auditorium at SebArts and will feature Native poetry from Lucille Lang Day, Dave Holt, Linda Noel, Kurt Schweigman and a panel discussion offering an indigenous perspective on the environment, followed by a discussion with the audience, drumming and more.
Panelists, "Indigenous Perspectives on the Environment":
Olivia Dancel (Comanche/Yaqui) is an artist whose work reflects who she is as a Native American woman with deep connections to the natural world and her cultural traditions.
Dr. Brenda Flyswithhawks (Tsalági Eastern Cherokee) is an environmental activist, professor of psychology at Santa Rosa Junior College, and traditional dancer, singer, drummer, and storyteller.
Rose Hammock (Pomo and Wailacki) is a Native American leader, activist, and educator. She dances with her community and serves as a tutor and mentor for Native American youth.
Poetry reading by contributors to Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016).
Lucille Lang Day (Wampanoag) is the author of eleven poetry collections and chapbooks, most recently Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place, and a coeditor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California.
Dave Holt (Ojibwe), originally from Canada, is a musician and songwriter in addition to being a poet whose book Voyages to Ancestral Islands received an Artists Embassy International Literary/Cultural Arts Award.
Linda Noel (Koyoonk’auwi), former Poet Laureate of Ukiah, has work in Joy Harjo’s When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (2020) and many other anthologies.
Kurt Schweigman (Oglala Lakota), coeditor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, has been a featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and was the first spoken-word poet to receive an Archibald Bush Foundation individual artist fellowship.
NATIVE VOICES at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, a literary event, will be held November 18 from 7-8:30 pm in the auditorium at SebArts and will feature Native poetry from Lucille Lang Day, Dave Holt, Linda Noel, Kurt Schweigman and a panel discussion offering an indigenous perspective on the environment, followed by a discussion with the audience, drumming and more.
Panelists, "Indigenous Perspectives on the Environment":
Olivia Dancel (Comanche/Yaqui) is an artist whose work reflects who she is as a Native American woman with deep connections to the natural world and her cultural traditions.
Dr. Brenda Flyswithhawks (Tsalági Eastern Cherokee) is an environmental activist, professor of psychology at Santa Rosa Junior College, and traditional dancer, singer, drummer, and storyteller.
Rose Hammock (Pomo and Wailacki) is a Native American leader, activist, and educator. She dances with her community and serves as a tutor and mentor for Native American youth.
Poetry reading by contributors to Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016).
Lucille Lang Day (Wampanoag) is the author of eleven poetry collections and chapbooks, most recently Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place, and a coeditor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California.
Dave Holt (Ojibwe), originally from Canada, is a musician and songwriter in addition to being a poet whose book Voyages to Ancestral Islands received an Artists Embassy International Literary/Cultural Arts Award.
Linda Noel (Koyoonk’auwi), former Poet Laureate of Ukiah, has work in Joy Harjo’s When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (2020) and many other anthologies.
Kurt Schweigman (Oglala Lakota), coeditor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, has been a featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and was the first spoken-word poet to receive an Archibald Bush Foundation individual artist fellowship.
