[New York, NY]

Big Fun: Indigenous Art & Performance as Resistance at The Museum of the City of New York
January 28, 2020, 6:30 pm
at The Museum of the City of New York

An evening of poetry, music, and art celebrating radical urban Indigenous resistance, resilience, and activism. The program will feature readings, performances, photos, video, and VR celebrating radical urban Indigenous resistance, resilience, and activism. Performers include: Tatiana Benally, Rosa Bordallo, Jolene Chee, Korina Emmerich, Lou Cornum, Irene Villeseñor, Regan de Loggans, Kristina Thomas Hamlin, Laura Ortman, and Roxy Romero. Beyond words + so thrilled to be able to say that we will be joined by very special guest, Britta Ninshonz Burns Ruona, Diane Burns’ daughter. Curated by Nicole Wallace.

Big Fun takes its name and shape from the title of a poem by Diane Burns (Anishinaabe/Chemehuevi), published in her 1981 chapbook, Riding the One-Eyed Ford (Contact II Publications). Connecting back and looking forward through the lens of Burns’ life and work as a poet and performer on what is now called The Lower East Side, this interdisciplinary evening will feature a series of performances by members of the Indigenous Kinship Collective as well as by other Indigenous folx who currently occupy and make their lives and work on the homelands of the Lenape, Lenapehoking.

More info here.