United Indians of All Tribes-SeaFair PowWow needs volunteers Fri. July 15th-Mon. July 18th

http://www.unitedindians.org/powwow/

Volunteers

The 26th Annual Seafair Indian Days Pow Wow is coming up quickly
(July 16-17)!
We are in need of volunteers more than ever to help us make this years Pow Wow a success. YOU can help! If you are interested please contact our Volunteer Coordinator at (206) 285-4425. All volunteers receive FREE admission, refreshments, loads of fun & other goodies!!
Thank You!
Pow Wow Volunteer Coordinator
& the rest of the Pow Wow Committee
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
Sign up form: 2011 PW Volunteer Signup
To volunteer please e-mail pwvolunteers (at) unitedindians.org

Draft of invite for 1st Annual Spaghetti Feed/Potluck/Open-mic/Unveiling Painting/Somatic workshop

1^st Annual Spaghetti Feed/Potluck/Open Mic/Somatic Workshop and Unveiling Tulalip Reads for Unity Mural

Who: NWIC-Tulalip and Cascadia Community College students, staff, faculty and Tulalip community members

When: June 15^th and June 16th

Wednesday: 2:00pm-3:30pm, room CC1-351-Potluck/Open mic

Thursday:    8:45am-11am room CC2-360 Potluck/Open Mic

                    10:30am-1:05pm, room UWB Drama classroom

1:15- 3:20 CC3 room 201 Unveiling the Tulalip Reads for Unity Mural 3:30-4:45 CC1 room 210 

Where: Cascadia Community College

    18345 Campus Way NE, Bothell WA 98011

·       From I-405 south take exit 24 turn right/east off freeway

·       Take a left at first light onto UWB/CCC campus.

·       Take left at first light/by bus loop and turn left into parking garage.

·       North Garage Parking $4.00 a day, metered parking or free parking on Beardslee Blvd street parking.

Why: To Honor and celebrate student, staff, community members and faculty cross campus and community efforts, Tulalip Reads for Unity, Diversity brings Unity,  Cascadia Drama and Painting classes and Spring Unity Projects 2011.

What to bring: Yourself, your family and friends and perhaps a story, poem or your thoughts on what you learned, experienced and did this term! Also feel free to bring a dish to share, yet we will have plenty of food, we just need your presence and appetite!

What did you do and/or create for the artistic response?

Hey All,

I look forward to seeing my English 102 student artisitc responses on Monday, yet I had a preview in class today.
The assignment was to respond to Sherman Alexie's work and/or the information and experiences they've had with this class from their perspective and if they did incorporate symbols and ideas from Native American communities they needed to explain why. They also had to post one page reflections on what their work represents to them as their response, what creating it was like and so forth.  My friend and colleague Debora was really clear on saying we need to do it from where we stand and not try to just imitate others.

There was quite a range from drawings, cartoons, scenes created by students, to objects they made. Debora's Painting class is finishing a mural and her Drama students have written and acted their own scenes as their response. Their work will be cool to see. Some of them will be performing at tonight's opem mic and we are really excited to see what the NWIC students and Tulalip community members have created!!!

So, would anyone reading this like to share what they've created or any other feedback about the Tulalip Reads for Unity overall?

Mid- community read check in and survey

Have you (anyone looking at this blog) filled out the brief 7 question survey for the folks at NWIC-Tulalip? It is anonymous and will just give us an idea of who participated and why:

Participant Survey:
We are asking participants to complete an initial survey. This will help us with reporting back to our funding sponsor, the Tulalip Tribes Charitable Fund.
www.surveymonkey.com/s/8L27NRT

Also, as we are somewhere in the middle of the academic term, what are your thoughts on The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, this read in general, the blogs, is it connecting to what you are reading/researching/learning in your classes, outside classes? Just some general impressions would be grand!

Beyond writing and talking about issues raised by Sherman Alexie

Since there are people creating artistic responses to Sherman Alexie's work for the Tulalip Reads for Unity on his The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, we thought it would be great to have a place for people to connect and share their work, struggles, ideas, etc.

Please feel free to post your work, links to your work, request for ideas, feedback, see if someone else wants to work with you to create an artistic response, etc.