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 is a musical drama based on the life of Chickasaw sharpshooter and silent film actress, the unconquerable Wanda Savage.

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 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.

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.

“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.