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FREE FILM SCREENINGS - SANTE FE
In honor of American Indian Heritage Month the New Mexico Film Office will hold free public screenings of the following Native American films on November 15th and November 16th, 2008:
Saturday, Nov 15th - SHORT FILMS
3:00pm Conversion (by Filmmaker Nanobah Becker)
3:30pm A Return Home (**followed by Q&A w/writer-director, Ramona Emerson**)
5:00pm Goodnight Irene (by Filmmakers Sterlin Harjo & Chad Burris)
5:20pm Dancing from the Heart (**followed by Q&A w/Marilyn Hunt and dancer Andrew Garcia of Ohkay Owingeh**)
Sunday, Nov 16th - FEATURE FILMS
2:00pm The Gift (by Director Gary Farmer)
3:15pm Pow Wow Highway (**followed by Q&A w/Director, Jonathan Wacks**)
5:15pm Smoke Signals (by Director Chris Eyre)
7:00pm Four Sheets to the Wind (by Filmmakers Sterlin Harjo & Chad Burris)
Screenings will be held for the public with no cost for admission.
Please join us in celebrating the contributions of creative work by and about Native Americans at these special screenings this month.
JEAN COCTEAU THEATRE
418 Montezuma (Montezuma & Guadalupe), Santa Fe, NM 87501
Contact the Film Office with any questions at: trish@nmfilm.com or (505) 476-5611
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NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
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CONTACT:
Eric Martin, emartin2@unl.edu or 402-472-3287
NAPT's NATIVE RADIO THEATER KICKS OFF THIRD SEASON
WITH ALL-NATIVE VARIETY SHOW RECORDED LIVE
LINCOLN, Neb._Native American Public Telecommunication's Native Radio Theater project is kicking off its third season of audio plays with a story of young love and a new variety show that includes music, poetry, comedy and more.
"This is Native entertainment and talent at its finest," NAPT Executive Director Shirley K. Sneve (Rosebud Sioux) said of the show being billed as A Prairie Home Companion for Native Americans. "This is the first time NAPT has done a variety show."
The 90-minute variety show features playwrights Jim Northrup (Ojibwe) and Rhiana Yazzie (Navajo), who each take a slice of Indian life and bring it to the stage. Northrup gives the game show world a spin with Shinob Jeopardy. Yazzie creates a spoof on reporting on the reservation in the Really, Real News from Indian Country.
In addition to the variety show, a play by Robert Vestal (Cherokee) is included in this year's mix of radio theater. Vestal re-creates an Eastern Band of Cherokee story of young love with The Bullfrog Lover. Vestal's re-creation, which was taken from the recordings by anthropologist James Mooney in the late 1800s, is performed by Eastern Band of Cherokee high school students.
Vestal's play is performed live in front of an audience in North Carolina, and the variety show is recorded live in Minneapolis.
Other acts and performers in the variety show include:
- Poetry by Ardie Medina and Marcie Rendon
- Traditional storytelling by Faith Bad Moccasin
- A drum group led by John Oakgrove
The Native Radio Theater project was created in 2005 with the Los Angeles-based Autry National Center's program, Native Voices at the Autry, to promote greater awareness of the range of talent in the Native American theater community. The goal of Native Voices at the Autry is to develop and produce new works for stage by Native American playwrights.
Native Radio Theater is the only Native American programming of its kind produced for public radio in the country, and is heard through tribal, public and community radio stations throughout the nation. The project is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The variety show, which can be broken up in an hour or half-hour segments, is being distributed to tribal and public radio stations by Native Voice One starting this month for Native American Heritage Month, and will be available on the satellite system from now until March 9, 2009.
The third season of Native Radio Theater also will be aired on AIROS.org, NAPT's online Native radio network, from November through February. Check AIROS.org for air dates and times. Encore shows of Native Radio Theater's 2006 and 2007 seasons are also set to air on AIROS.org during this time. Past plays produced include Super Indian, written by recording artist, actor and writer Arigon Starr (Kickapoo), and Melba's Medicine, written by Rose-Yvonne Colletta (Lipan Mescalero Apache).
To read more about NAPT's Native Radio Theater and learn about past projects, go to NAPT's Web site at www.airos.org. To learn more about Native Voices at the Autry, go to: www.autrynationalcenter.org.
For more information about the radio theater feed and the satellite program service, contact Burt Poley, network manager at Native Voice One, at 505-724-3577 or bpoley@nv1.org. For more information about AIROS or the production of Native Radio Theater, contact Eric Martin, interactive media specialist at NAPT's AIROS.org, at emartin2@unl.edu or 402-472-3287.
NAPT shares Native stories with the world through support of the creation, promotion and distribution of Native media with offices in Lincoln, Neb., and Albuquerque, N.M.
NAPT support makes it possible for public television audiences to view such quality programs as Weaving Worlds, a new documentary about the economics of Navajo weaving, and the upcoming documentary about the aftermath of a $294 million damming project that submerged the Ft. Berthold Reservation, Waterbuster. Check your local PBS station for air dates and times.
Other NAPT products include VisionMaker Video, distributor of March Point, Waterbuster, Weaving Worlds, Oceti Sakowin, and other documentaries by and about Native Americans as seen on PBS.
NAPT is one of five members of the National Minority Consortia funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to provide diverse programming to PBS and other public broadcasting systems.
For more information on NAPT, go to www.nativetelecom.org.
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DEREK MILLER
Aboriginal Entertainer of the Year, Best Album Cover Design, Best Music Video, Best Producer/Engineer, Best Songwriter, Single of the Year
Ancestry: First Nations
Genre: Rock Language: English
Singer/Songwriter, Derek Miller, was born and raised on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario. His upcoming release, Music is the Medicine, is a perfect amalgamation of influences culled throughout his 14 years of performing. Blues based rock inspired by the likes of Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and Hank Williams Sr. is how his music is best described.
Derek's live performances strike a contrast between the dark, soul searching messages in his music and his light hearted enthusiasm and vitality. Derek performs his music with an air of feeling totally comfortable on stage, like he was born explicitly to write, sing and play.
Having performed at showcases, the occasional opening act solo slot and many shows in his own right, Derek has been brought to the attention of veteran and well respected musicians, such as Daniel Lanois, Robbie Robertson and Buffy Ste. Marie. He opened for Buffy on a series of theatre concerts where he wowed crowds with songs from his debut five song EP CD entitled Sketches.
In 1999, this EP won him a Canadian Aboriginal Music Award for Best Male Artist. During the same year, Derek moved to Arizona where he co-produced the Keith Secola and the Wild Band of Indians "Fingermonkey" release. This inadvertently won a Native American Music Award in 2000 for Best Independent Album. In the fall of 2002, Music is the Medicine collaboration with Juno Award Winning Producer Brandon Friesen will be released on Grammy Award Winning label Soar Records in the United States and Arbor Records in Canada. Music Is The Medicine has already won "Aboriginal Recording of the Year" at this years Juno Awards and the "Outstanding Music Achievement Award" from the First American In The Arts! Derek continues to tour in support of his new releases throughout Canada, USA. and Europe.
GARY FARMER SINGS THE BLUES
GF & THE TROUBLEMAKERS
"A seasoned group of 6 musicians and performers committed to blues and jazz standards of BB King, Etta James, Keb Mo, Dr. John, Ella Fitzgerald, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon. The Troublemaker's first CD, "Love Songs and Other Issues", was released in April 07'. Based
in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, the musicians include, Star Nayae on vocals, Nick Mendoza on guitar and vocals, Daniel Garcia on keyboards, John Longbow on bass, Robert Deane on drums and Gary Farmer on vocals, harmonica and washboard tie.
Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers are currently taking the Native Music Industry by storm with noted performances in the short time they have been together. They have performed at the Native American Music Festival in Toppenish, WA; Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM; Navajo Nation Fair, Window Rock, AZ; Gathering of Nations, Albuquerque, NM; and upcoming at Muscogee Creek Nation Fair in Muscogee, OK. These successful performances have lead to the recording of their CD with reinterpreted blues standards not often performed by Native American bands.
For their April 2007 recording The Troublemakers are comprised of Gary Farmer on Harmonica and Vocals, Neon Knepalm and Star Nayea on Vocals, Nick Mendoza on Lead Guitar and Vocals, John Longbow on Bass, Jake Fragua on Guitar, Robert Rambo on Guitar, and Mike Winston on Drums.
This latest CD compilation was recorded at Stepbridge Studios in Santa Fe, NM, where such artists as Robbie Robertson, Otis Taylor, and Randy Travis have laid down their tracks.
CD AVAILABLE: You can purchase the CD at www.myspace.com/garyfarmerandthetroublemakers OR e-mail gonzodriverecords@gmail.com
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