WE ARE STILL HERE
A multi-media exhibit on the historic American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island Exhibit Opening & Reception: Friday, November 19, 2010
Cesar Chavez Student Center Art Gallery November 19, 2010 to December 18, 2010
In 2009, a group of SFSU students, in collaboration with native leaders, faculty from San Francisco State University and students from California State University East Bay conducted interviews of historians, native scholars and activists and documented the 40th anniversary of the historic 19 month American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island. The multi-media exhibit contains photographs, an audio landscape, a collage of contemporary and archival footage; and original art.
12:00 p.m. | Art Gallery
Exhibit opens with a blessing by Ann Marie Sayers (Mutsun Ohlone), honor song by Dr. John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache) special guests and student exhibitors 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Jack Adams Hall
Richard Oakes Celebration with special guests, panel discussion and cultural performances 6:00 p.m. | Jack Adams Hall
Cultural program, MC L. Frank Manriquez (Tongva/Ajachmem), Morning
Star Gali (Achumawi band of the Pit River Nation) International Indian Treaty Council with Pomo Dancers, Jeremy Goodfeather (Mohawk), and Ras K’dee (Afro/Pomo) of SNAG Magazine, Hoop Dancer Eddie Madril (Yaqui) and All Nations Drum. 7:30 p.m. | Jack Adams Hall
Film program Alcatraz is Not an Island presented by James Fortier (Metis/Ojibwe) – a benefit for Fawn and Elijah Oakes (Kashia Pomo and Mohawk)
Sponsors & Supporters: Center for Sustainable Communities; Cesar Chavez Institute, SFSU; Department of American Indian Studies, SFSU; Department of Ethnic Studies, CSU East Bay; International Indian Treaty Council; Richard Oakes Multi-Cultural Center; SKINS; The Cultural Conservancy; and private donors. Photograph by: Salvador Sanchez-Strawbridge For more information contact: Phil Klasky:
[email protected] (415) 338-6806
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