Friday, Sept 9, 7pm
$7($5 for Intermedia Arts and SASE members and youth under 17)

Moving images on the big screen fuse with spoken word performances onstage in this interdisciplinary program where literature and film/video speak to each other.
Words! Camera! Action! is presented in partnership with SASE The Write Place.

INDIGENAS
Films, Performances and Stories from Indigenous Perspectives

Indigenas features films, videos, and performances for, by and about the cross-cultural junctures between the Native American experience and the colonial experience of new immigrants from contemporary indigenous cultures.

Last March, local Karen dancers, singers and storytellers shared their stories, dance and music as part of Words! Camera! Action! – Matriarchs. Their stories were challenging to the storytellers and the listeners alike. By using artistic expression to catalyze better understanding of their indigenous experience, White Earth Anishinabe writer and performance artist Marcie Rendon is leading a writing workshop with local Karen immigrant women. Through Indigenas, they will weave an onstage/onscreen dialogue to ask questions, share histories, find commonalities around indigenous and immigrant stories.

The Karens are an indigenous cultural minority from the highlands near the Myanmar-Thai border who have had to struggle against human rights abuses and displacement. There are about 450 Karen refugees now living in Minnesota.

Matinee Shows
Free! Group reservations only, call Theresa Sweetland at (612) 874-2813 for reservations.