Tonight! Native Americans and Education-Community Dialogue Series

Hello all,

Sorry for the short notice on this, but I just found my Baobab Cultural Center Newsletter and wanted to send this out to let you know about these awesome events - one of which is Tonight! I'm hoping to make it up for this one tonight myself, so maybe I'll see you there!

EVENT

Community Dialogue Series: Native Americans and Education
October 18, 2008 at 6:30 pm

Can Native Americans be Educated and Remain "Native"? This dialogue will explore this question. Peter Jemison, Director of Ganondagan State Historic Site leads discussion.

Jemison will discuss the educational experiences of Native americans in the USA. His talk will include an overview of themes in his art works, and excerpts from a documentary titled House of Peace. Jemison will engage the audience in a dialogue on what schools should teach about the Native American culture and what can be done to enable meaningful matriculation and integration of Native Americans in secondary and post-secondary education.

Details on documentary:

House of Peace tells the story of Ganondagan, a seventeenth-century Seneca village, now a New York State Historic Site, and documents the construction of a traditional bark longhouse there.

(1999, 29 min. Documentary) US; Producer: G. Peter Jemison (Seneca); Director: Cathleen Ashworth; Produced by: Friends of Ganondagan

Check out http://www.thebaobab.org/ for more information

Also coming up at The Baobab:

EVENT

Guest Speaker Event: Adobe: Down to Earth.
October 23, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Guest speaker Paul Rayar is the Director of Arcilla Research. Mr. Rayar is the originator of a technology for producing environmentally-friendly materials from waste streams. An artist by training, Mr. Rayar was a master at creating enameled jewelry, murals, and stoneware ceramics. A native of Florida, he set up his permanent workshop in the Netherlands, where he was sought out to decorate municipal buildings with sculptural ceramic relief and create public statuary.

More information on Paul Rayar is available at http://www.thebaobab.org/

EVENT

Community Dialogue Series: Race Relations: Seminole Indians and Blacks
October 25, 2008 at 6:30 pm

This dialogue will focus on the film "Black Indians: An American Story" that brings to light a forgotten part of America's past - the cultural and racial fusion of Native and African Americans. Discussion facilitated by Roberta Davis.