Events
Native Youth Arts Education
Launching this fall, free classes for Native youth in Boulder Valley across traditional Native arts. More information on timing, programming and how to sign up coming soon!
Homelands: Reconnection
The "Homelands" art show is a profound tribute to the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute tribes, honoring their connection to their ancestral lands that now make up Boulder, Colorado. Launched in 2021 at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the show brings a long-overdue recognition and celebration of the Indigenous peoples whose presence shaped this region long before its current identity.
The Counting of the Heads & New Year’s Purun
The Counting of the Heads is an Osage romance. Will and Annie love one another, but is that enough to keep an Osage man and a white woman together in Oklahoma in 1906?
“Come on, just one dance!” 16-year old Taiel just needs one successful Purun dance in order to fulfill his duty of becoming a Mapuche tribe healer... and finally get the homophobic bullies at school off his back.
Savage
Savage is a musical drama based on the life of Chickasaw sharpshooter and silent film actress, the unconquerable Wanda Savage.
Voices of Change: First Storytellers – An Evening with Native American Playwrights
Boulder’s all-Indigenous led artists collective Creative Nations joins us for an evening featuring playwrights from their First Storytellers Festival. Excerpts will be performed live by Indigenous actors followed by a conversation about the challenges of telling Native stories. Co-presented with the Longmont Multicultural Action Committee.
Embers Borne West
Embers Borne West is a time-shifting tale about intergenerational resilience and identity, as two very different generations of a Cherokee family move to Los Angeles, in 1927 and in the present day.
Dibaajimo (s/he tells, tells a story)
Dr. Shannon Epplett (Ojibwe), devised theatre practitioner, will create a piece of new theatre with Boulder Native families throughout the festival that will be presented Saturday night free to the public.
Pink Man or The Only Indian in the Room
“I’ve been stuck in the middle my entire life. I’m afraid to be red. But, I’m not just white, either. I guess I’m...pink. Pink man.” Pink Man: or The Only Indian in the Room follows a young Ojibwe in a semi-autobiographical, semi-realistic journey of self-discovery as he battles tradition, stereotypes, and himself.
2024 Native Art Market
Join us for the fourth annual Art Market at The Dairy Arts Center!
Native artisans will be selling their work all the weekend, with performances by Native dancers and musicians throughout.
Weaving Prayers: Ocean's Edge to Mesa's Ledge
A journey of culture, prayers and hope for my people back home on the Navajo Reservation. I am of two Water Clans: Bitterwater and Zuni-Edgewater. Water is one of the four sacred elements and is essential for all living beings on earth.
Stone and Wood Sculptures
Bryan Valdez Redmoon started his art at the age of 9 years old with oil paintings. In 1983 Bryan apprenticed under renowned native American artists Robert and Bennet Morninggun for 4 years carving stone. Bryan’s reputation for exemplary pieces has proceeded him and the unique nature of his work has drawn an immense amount of business. Bryan has won many awards, on of his stone pieces “The Merrill Lynch Bull” is displayed inside the New York Stock exchange. Bryan started 13 years ago sculpting trees all over the state of Colorado, with his unique style. Bryan Redmoon owns Redmoon Art Studio in Erie Colorado.