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Festival of Native American Culture
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The first Festival of Native American Culture will be held in a variety of locations and venues throughout Sedona and the Verde Valley. Featured events include a Native American film festival, invitational art show, special archaeology tours and cultural discussions, and culminating in a “Celebration of Native American Music and Dance.” In association with the Sedona International Film Festival, activities begin with a Native American Film Festival featuring documentaries, fiction, and music videos by Native American filmmakers. Friday, June 5, at 7 p.m., in the Clarkdale Memorial Clubhouse, two Navajo films entitled Turquoise Rose and A Gift From Talking God: The Story of the Navajo Churro will be featured. The Radisson Poco Diablo Resort will host a Dinner Theatre on Saturday, June 6, at 6 p.m., with special guest Michael Blake, the Academy Award® winning screenwriter and author of Dances With Wolves, who will show and discuss his film The American West: On The Road With Michael Blake. On Sunday, June 7, the Film Festival moves to the Harkins Theatre in Sedona for two shows. The 6:30 p.m. show will feature the Canadian Inuit film Before Tomorrow, which will be preceded by Sandpainting Healing with Walking Thunder. The 9 p.m. show will bring back two highly popular films from the Sedona International Film Festival earlier this year, American Outrage and CHE AH CHI: The History of Boynton Canyon. The Film Festival continues on Monday and Tuesday at the Canyon Moon Theatre in The Village of Oak Creek, with two unique events never before held in Arizona. Monday, June 8, will feature films by indigenous filmmakers from Latin America. The 3 p.m. matinee features films from Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador. The 7 p.m. show will feature films from Guatemala and Bolivia. The Film Festival concludes on Tuesday, June 9, at 7 p.m., with a series of short subjects by members of the Native American Producers Alliance. The Festival ends with a Celebration of Native American Music and Dance. On Friday, June 1,2 at 7 p.m., Canyon Records recording artist Gabriel Ayala will perform in concert at St. John Vianney Church in Sedona. On Saturday, June 13, the Tlaquepaque Arts & Craft Village will host the Yellow Bird Indian Dancers and Aaron White and Burning Sky for free concerts from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Yellow Bird Indian Dancers present a repertoire of authentic Apache, Southwest and Northern Plains Dances which are colorful yet educational. From the exciting Hoop Dance to the beautiful Apache Rainbow Dance, their dancing is enhanced by native sign language and enchanting flute music. Grammy-nominated Aaron White has been making music for 17 years and has toured for many years. The music White creates has been used in Indie films and documentaries for PBS, commercials and radio. The mixture of acoustic guitar and Native American flute has been Aaron's specialty for 15 years and counting. He received a Grammy Nomination for his work with Burning Sky for their CD “Spirits in the Wind.” An Evening of Native Dance will close the Festival on June 13, at 7 p.m., in the Tequa Ballroom at the Sedona Hilton Resort and Spa. The Halau Hula Napuaokalei’ilima troupe will perform Hawaiian dances as performed for the Heard Museum’s 50th Anniversary Celebration. They will be followed by the internationally-known Dancing Earth, a collective of performance artists representing the First Nations who create experimental yet elemental dances that reflect their rich cultural heritage to explore their identity as contemporary Native peoples. Tickets are now available for films and concerts at the Red Rock District Visitor Center south of the Village of Oak Creek and at the Sedona Visitor Center in Uptown Sedona. Tickets can also be purchased online. Other ticket outlets are being added. Details of the Festival events are available at www.festivalofnativeamericanculture.org, or by calling 928-284-4764. To view a full length article about this event visit Festival Event Schedule. |
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Where: Various locations in Sedona and the Verde Valley Phone: 928-284-4764 Contact: Ken Zoll Don't keep it to yourself. Tell everyone you know! Subscribe now! Get Sedona news and events delivered right to your email. (Your privacy is protected. No spam ever, and you can unsubscribe at any time.) |
