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May 3, 2007
CONVERSATIONS TO REMEMBER
what: Moderated Discussions with Leading National Figures
when: May 18, June 21, July 12 (all @ 7pm)
where: IAIA Museum, 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe
cost: $3 adult admission, Museum members free.
Conversations to Remember will periodically present dialogue on a range of topics of interest to both Native and non-Native audiences, part of the museum’s purpose of create a meeting place between the Native and non-Native worlds, a place where education and dialogue can take place in a humane and respectful atmosphere. The Conversations to Remember format is simple: several speakers – Native and non-Native – representing diverse point of view will engage in unrehearsed conversation in front of an audience. Audience q&a concludes each conversation.
May 18
Topic: Pollution, Politics & Patrimony: Environmental Justice in Indian Country
Panel: Winona LaDuke (Director of Honor the Earth), and John Trudell (Performing Artist & Activist)
Moderator: Stephen Wall (Chairman, IAIA Department of Indigenous Liberal Studies)
June 21
Topic: Appropriation of Imagery in Cowboy & Indian Art
Panel: Seth Hopkins (Director, Booth Western Art Museum), Paul Chaat Smith (Assoc. Curator, National Museum of the American Indian), and Steven Carr (Curator, Southwest Museum of the American Indian)
Moderator: John Grimes (Director, IAIA Museum)
July 12
Topic: Branding the Native Artist: What does it Cost to be Famous?
Panel: Tammy Garcia (Artist), Leroy Garcia (Artist), and others TBD
Moderator: TBD
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