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Pink Man or The Only Indian in the Room
Oct
5

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.

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Voices of Change: First Storytellers – An Evening with Native American Playwrights
Oct
3

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.

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The Counting of the Heads & New Year’s Purun
Oct
1

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.

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