Four days of events are planned to commemorate Indigenous Peoples Day. Urban Native Collective in Northside is hosting its annual Indigenous Peoples Day Convergence Oct. 10-13.
“It’s really quite important for people to come out and view the artwork, understand contemporary Native identity as it juxtaposes with what they have historically learned or historically (understood) of Native people, and just really sort of sit with and understand and broaden their knowledge about what the Native experience is, especially the contemporary Native experience,” says Briana Mazzolini-Blanchard, executive director of Urban Native Collective.
Events include contemporary Indigenous artwork exhibits, food, dance presentations, a speaker series, a community feast, and new this year, traditional CHamoru weaving workshops led by an artist from Guam’s CHamoru community…