[nativestudies-l] Gary Farmer & Joy Harjo at University of Connecticut

[Colin Neary]

Greetings enthusiasts of indigenous art,

The University of Connecticut is proud to announce it's "Native Art Series"
for the month of October, featuring award-winning Cayuga actor and director
Gary Farmer and Mvskoke (Creek) poet Joy Harjo.

*Friday October 14, 2011 5-8 PM *
*An Evening with Gary Farmer Featuring Screening of Short Films and Feature
"One Dead Indian"*
*Konover Auditorium: Thomas J. Dodd Center Library 405 Babbidge Road,
Storrs, CT 06269*
*FREE ADMISSION*
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Join us for an evening with film actor and director Gary Farmer at the
University of Connecticut on Friday October 14.  He is predominantly a
character actor who has been featured in over a hundred film and television
productions, winning Independent Spirit Awards for his roles as Nobody in *Dead
Man *(Jim Jarmusch, 1995) and Arnold Joseph in *Smoke Signals *(Chris Eyre,
1997). Gary will open festivities by introducing the audience to the films,
followed by a screening of the short *Bear Tung* (Travis Shilling, 2011).
 Dabbling in direction as well, Gary will also screen *Powerball *(Farmer,
2009) shot on-location in his home city of Santa Fe.  The next gem will be
the feature *One Dead Indian *(Tim Southam, 2006), a portrayal of the clash
between the unarmed Kettle and Stoney Point Indian Bands and the Ontario
Provincial Police, which left some severely wounded and one Dudley Anthony
George dead. This film has only been screened on Canadian television and won
the Gemini Awards for best direction, writing, and sound in a dramatic
mini-series for 2006.  Gary will conclude the performance by opening
questions to the audience.  Copies of the new album by Gary Farmer and the
Troublemakers titled *Under The Water Tower* will available for autograph
after the show.   It will be a true pleasure, and all are invited to attend.

*Thursday October 20, 2011 5-7 PM*
*Poetry Reading Featuring Joy Harjo*
*Student Union Ballroom: Suite 330 Student Union 2110 Hillside Road, Storrs,
CT 06269*
*Admission $5.00*
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Musician and poet Joy Harjo of the Mvskoke Nation will be making an
appearance at the University of Connecticut on the evening of October 20 for
a poetry reading and performance.  Her seven books of poetry, which include
such well-known titles as *How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems *
(2002), *The Woman Who Fell From the Sky *(1994), and *She Had Some
Horses *(1983) have
garnered many awards.  These include the New Mexico Governor’s Award for
Excellence in the Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native
Writers Circle of the Americas, and the William Carlos Williams Award from
the Poetry Society of America. *For A Girl Becoming*, a young adult/coming
of age book, was released in 2009 and is Harjo’s most recent publication.
     She has released four award-winning CD's of original music and in 2009
won a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year
for* Winding Through the Milky Way*. Her most recent CD release is a
traditional flute album: *Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears *(2010). She
performs nationally and internationally with her band, the Arrow Dynamics.
She also performs her one-woman show, *Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning
Light*, which premiered at the Wells Fargo Theater in Los Angeles in 2009.
 She has received a Rasmusson US Artists Fellowship and is a founding board
member of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Harjo writes a column
“Comings and Goings” for her tribal newspaper, the *Muscogee Nation News*.
She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  We are very excited to see what
performance Joy has planned for UConn!

Kind regards,

Colin R. Neary
Chair - Subcommittee on Diversity & Multi-Cultural Affairs
Division of Student Affairs
University of Connecticut
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