Red Earth Descendants hosts its 6th Annual Native Storytelling Conference at the Bellview Grange in Ashland on Saturday, December 17, 2011, kicking the afternoon storytelling session off at Noon. Esther Stutzman of the Kalapuya Tribe of Oregon will be the featured Storyteller, along with other regional storytellers from a variety of traditions.
The Conference will also include music, drumming, a Silent Auction, local craft vendors and a community feast (potluck please!) at 4:30 p.m., with an evening storytelling session starting again at 6 p.m.. Red Earth Descendants welcomes the public, FREE of charge, to attend this special annual event and learn about the sacred indigenous tradition of storytelling--what role storytelling has played in the continuation of cultural survival for Native Peoples and how this is passed along to the inter-tribal community in a way that connects old stories to present day.
Schedule
10 a.m. ~ Noon ~ Event and Vendor Set-Up
Noon ~ 4:30 p.m. ~ Storytelling
4:30 p.m. ~ 6 p.m. ~ Community Potluck Feast
6 ~ 8 p.m. ~ Storytelling
8 ~ 9 p.m. ~ Community clean-up
A Silent Auction will be hosted during the Conference, along with several vendors. At this point we are still welcoming vendors, so if you are interested in having a table space, please contact us at: redearthdescendants@gmail.com. Vendors' tables are $10 for the entire day/evening, with a suggested donation of one item to the Silent Auction.
The Community Feast is a potluck ~ we have plenty of refrigerator and stove/oven space in the kitchen. Please feel free to use the kitchen as needed.
As always, our events are FREE of charge to the public. We are also drug and alcohol free, and we ask that you respect this, please.
For more information, call:
541-890-3529
541-941-5989
or Email:
redearthdescendants@gmail.com
Visit our website at:
www.redearthdescendants.org
Esther Stutzman is Coos and Komemma Kalapuya, and is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz. The Kalapuya people lived in the Willamette Valley from the Clackamas River area near Oregon City down the valley to the Umpqua River near Roseburg. Esther and her family still remain in this beautiful region, their homeland for centuries. Esther is a storyteller and history keeper for her people, carrying on the sacred tradition of keeping her tribal stories, as passed down from her grandmother. In her storytelling, she teaches the audience the importance and value of HOW indigenous culture is kept alive in the old stories, and WHY it is such a responsibility to keep telling those stories. Please come and enjoy stories from this land and beyond, with many other storytellers as well; hear the various histories of the Native Peoples.
Feel free to print copies of the poster and help us spread the word!
Thank you and we hope to see you at the Storytelling Conference
~Red Earth Descendants
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