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Theatre: Plays, Productions,
- Native Voices at the Autry | 
Native Voices at the Autry
| | Date: | Jan 10, 2008 4:45 PM | | Subject: | View "Our Voices . . . Our Stories" on our page | | Body: | We've added the mini-documentary featuring our Young Native Voices: Theater Education Project to our page and we hope to see you at the free Young Native Voices Festival on Saturday, January 26 at 2pm.
The ever-growing Young Native Voices Theater Education Project, now in its seventh year, inspires young Native Americans to explore their rich history and share personal experiences through the art of playwriting. This year’s program is the biggest yet, with fifteen participants ranging in age from nine to eighteen. The new plays will be read at the Young Native Voices Festival by professional Native American actors in a free performance on Saturday, January 26, at 2 p.m.
Sponsored by Native Voices at the Autry, the program consists of six classes over the course of three weekends in January. It pairs up the participants with theater professionals to teach them the basics of play development. The workshop focuses on such topics as writing for the stage, character development, and writing from personal experience, culminating in the debut of the students’ powerful and compelling scenes, stories, and monologues.
Added this year is an exciting musical element, which combines traditional Native American music with contemporary orchestral and choral music by high school–age Native American composers who are part of the Composer Apprentice National Outreach Endeavor (CANOE) of the First Nations Composers Initiative. Through collaboration between the theater and music programs, teenage playwrights and composers gain the confidence and inspiration to create performance art pieces. The opportunity to compose these works at a young age sets the groundwork for them to thrive as artists and writers well into adulthood.
In addition, Young Native Voices collaborates with local community partners such as the Southern California Indian Center, Central High School in Los Angeles, United American Indian Involvement, and the Torres-Martinez Tribal TANF, all of whom send their youths to participate.
“This festival is a forum for the voices of talented Native American youths from all over Southern California,” said Young Native Voices National Coordinator Bryan Davidson. “They come together to tell their stories, which is a powerful way to bring people together and increase understanding.”
Reservations for the Saturday performance are requested. Please call 323.667.2000, ext. 354, or e-mail your reservation to nativevoices@autrynationalcenter.org with “Reservations” in the subject line. |
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Hoop News on Theater -
 | | 'Thousand Roads': Paved With Good Intentions By Ann Hornaday
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 12, 2005; Page C02 The National Museum of the American Indian has produced a slick, high-end short film to play in its stateof- the-art auditorium. And from the looks of the 43-minute movie's pedigree and production values, it has spared no expense. "A Thousand Roads," which loosely connects a series of vignettes of Native life, not only looks great but hews faithfully to the museum's overarching ethos of celebrating the contemporary Native experience throughout the Western Hemisphere. For the full article, please click here to download the PDF. | |
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A Very Special “Occasion:” Breaking Bread With Drew Hayden Taylor - Happy
Good, Carole! And Drew Over at Native Vue A Very Special "Occasion:" Breaking Bread With Drew Hayden Taylor A Very Special "Occasion:" Breaking Bread With Drew Hayden TaylorOctober 28th, 2006 Drew Hayden Taylor is not what most people expect. No, not the fact that this tall, blue-eyed blond looks like a Swede but is Native to his core.
Drew Hayden Taylor is not what most people would expect from a playwright with 75 stage productions from Toronto, Venice to Los Angeles, and who has written more than a dozen […] Read the rest of this entry
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Drew Hayden Taylor - An Afternoon with Drew Hayden Taylor, Playwright Edited by Mike Gismondi
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Drew Hayden Taylor Adventures of the Blue-Eyed Ojibwa -  | | 400 Kilometres
This is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor’s hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, a thirty-something urban professional, must come to grips with the question of her "true identity." Her adoptive parents have just retired, and are about to sell their house to embark on a quest for their own identity by "returning" to England. Meanwhile, the Native father of her child-to-be is attempting to convince Janice/Grace that their new generation’s future lies with their "own people" at Otter Lake. (stageplay Cdn)
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This is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor’s ongoing zany, outrageous, often farcical examination of both Native and non-Native stereotypes in what is to become what he calls his "Blues Quartet." The Buz’Gem Blues is not a play about clichés with which we have become so familiar that we recognize them as stereotypes instantly, but rather about how our ritualized and institutionalized systems of maintaining and policing those clichés prevent us from recognizing our common humanity within each other. (stageplay Cdn) |  | | The Boy In The Treehouse and Girl Who Loved Her Horses
In these two plays about the process of becoming adults, Drew Hayden Taylor works his delightfully comic and bitter-sweet magic on the denials, misunderstandings and preconceptions which persist between Native and Colonial culture in North America. (stageplay Cdn)
"...one of Canada's 'hottest' young playwrights, and long recognized for his witty essays and journalism." -World Literature Today
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A fascinating gathering of dinner guests come together over dinner and a vast menu of cultural differences in this highly entertaining play about clashing ideologies. (stageplay Cdn)
"Drew Hayden Taylor has a deft touch for mixing comedy and commentary in an entertaining and all-Canadian form of social satire." -Vancouver Sun | Drew Hayden Taylor at the Whetung Ojibwa Centre
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Red Sky Production - 
| Red Sky has enjoyed a meteoric rise to international attention for its original creations. Founded in 2000 by Artistic Director Sandra Laronde, Red Sky is a dynamic company shaping contemporary Aboriginal performance in theatre, dance and music.
Red Sky creates and produces original works for adult and family audiences, and explores the artistic landscape where world Indigenous cultures merge. Red Sky seeks to nourish and strengthen the health, creativity and innovation of First Nations, world Indigenous, culturally diverse and mainstream communities. | | 
Red Sky is a registered Canadian charity that is an active member of the Toronto Theatre Alliance (TTA), Theatre Ontario and Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts. Red Sky engages professional artists who are members of the Canadian Actors' Equity Association, Canadian Alliance Dance Association, and Toronto Musician's Association.
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