"Honoring Spiderwoman Theatre / Celebrating Native American Theater"

February 19-22, 2007
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Schedule of Performances and Conference Presentations

Monday, February 19, 2007.

• 1:00 p.m. Registration opens. Marcum Center.

• 7:15 p.m. Hall Auditorium
  Opening Remarks by Prof. Joseph Leonard

• 7:30 p.m. Hall Auditorium
  Dianne Yeahquo Reyner, Weaving the Rain
  --Directed by Pat Melody, cast of American Indian Repertory Theatre (with Thunderbird Theatre)
  --Tickets at the Box Office and door. Adults $5; students free but need tickets.
  --Reception to follow.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007. 320 King Library

• 8:00 a.m.- . Registration, Coffee, and Pastry.

• 8:45 - 9:00. Welcoming Remarks.

• 9:00-10:15
  JudyLee Oliva, Christy Stanlake, and DeLanna Studi, "Native Drama in Mainstream Theatre: The Te Ata World Premier."

• 10:30-11:30
  Theater, Community, and Audience: Panel of Directors
  --Pat Melody, Randy Reinholz, Marcie Rendon, Shawn Termin.

• 11:30-12:30
  Vincent Scott and Jana Rhoads, "Thunder Road Theater (Tulsa, OK) in Conversation with the National Museum of the American Indian."

• 12:30-1:15. Lunch on Site

• 1:30-2:30
  Diane Glancy, "Pushing the Bear": A Staged Reading.
  --Kelli Lyon Johnson, Introduction and Q & A with Diane Glancy

• 2:45-3:45
  Monique Mojica, "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way."

• 4:00-5:15
  Native American Theater studies: Papers
  --Jill Carter, "Blind Faith Remembers: Princess Pocahontas as Transformative Ritual."
  --Katy Young, "Always Traveling Home: Transnational Migration in the Performances of Spiderwoman Theater."
  --Theresa Saxon, "Dramatic Contexts: Native American Drama on the Nationalist Stage."
  

• 5:30-7 p.m. Campus Ministry Center
  Conference Dinner
  --Marie Baker, Poetry Reading.

• 7:30 p.m. Hall Auditorium
  Spiderwoman Theater, The Persistence of Memory
  --Tickets in advance at the Box Office and at the door. Adults $10; seniors $8; students free but need tickets.
  --Reception following.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007. Great Room, Macmillan Hall

• 8:00- . Registration, Coffee, and Pastry

• 9:00-10:00
  Cultural Performance and the Politics of Representation: Papers
  --Vessela Warner, "Dancing with Traditions: Two Generations of Quileute Dancers in the Preservation of the Culture's 'Spirit Power.'"
  --Maryrose Casey, "Positioning the Cultural Interface of Reception and Indigenous Theatre."
  

• 10:00-10:45
  Ric Knowles and Monique Mojica, "Performing Transformation, Bridging Cosmologies."

• 11:00-11:45
  Ines Hernández-Avila, "Native American Literature in Performance."

• 11:45-12:15
  Maura Walz, "Alexander Street Press's North American Indian Drama database."

• 12:15-1:15. Lunch. Room 336, Shriver Center
  

  Honoring Spiderwoman Theater

• 1:30-2:45
  Murielle Borst, "Spiderwoman Theater's Legacy."
  Remarks from the Audience.

• 2:45-4:00
  Interview with Spiderwoman Theater: Lisa Mayo, Gloria Miguel, Muriel Miguel.
  --Interviewer: Ann Haugo.
  

• 4:00-5:00
  Conference Reflections.

• 5:30-7:00. Dinner in Heritage Room, Shriver Center
  Provided by Department of Theatre and Alexander Street Press.

• 7:15-7:45. Souers Recital Hall, Center for Performing Arts
  Conversation with Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl.

• 8:00 p.m. Studio 88 in Center for Performing Arts
  Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu
  --Dir. Ann Elizabeth Armstrong.
  --Tickets in advance at the Box Office. $6.
  --Reception to follow

Thursday, February 22, 2007. 320 King Library

• 7:30 p.m.
  Loriene Roy (White Earth Anishinabe). President-elect American Library Association.
  Prof., Univ. of Texas School of Information, and Director. Public talk, "Collaborations to Further Library Services for Indigenous Peoples"
  --Reception following.
  --Free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact Bill Wortman, wortmawa@muohio.edu or 513-523-1240.