Upcoming
What: Red Eagle Soaring Native Youth Theatre’s 13th annual SIYAP*, a free two-week performing arts intensive that concludes on the evening of August the 19th with a free, public performance created and staged by our audacious youth. Join us for ten days of contemporary theatre, traditional music, spoken word, graphic arts, creative play-writing… and Indian zombies. Every theatre also needs behind-the-scene-types to handle lighting, sound, costumes, make-up, and sets; don’t be shy! No experience necessary. Lunch is provided and all urban Native youth ages 11-19 from throughout greater Seattle are welcome.
When: 10-4 daily, Monday-Friday, August 8-19, 2011.
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center (http://www.unitedindians.org/daybreak.html) in Discovery Park, Seattle, WA.
How: email Managing Director Fern Renville at frenville@redeaglesoaring.org, or call her at 206/390-2603, to enroll your Native youth.
Why: Because you want to gain confidence, have fun, and make new Native friends. Plus you like zombies.
* Seattle Indian Youth Art and Performance. ‘Siyap’ means ‘esteemed friend’ in Lushootseed, the language of the Duwamish, Seattle’s first people.
Red Eagle Soaring gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Tulalip Tribe, the Potlatch Fund, the City of Seattle Human Services Department, and the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
Past Productions
Check out KPLU’s sensitive and intelligent story (http://www.kplu.org/post/play-tackles-fears-young-native-americans-after-woodcarver-killed) about our play that debuted Sunday, June 12th at 4PM at Rainier Valley Cultural Center (3515 S. Alaska, 98118) in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood.
Eagles Soar, Ravens Sing and Dance
Eagles Soar, Ravens Sing and Dance is the performance born out of Red Eagle Soaring’s fall 2010 The Art of Creative Storytelling class. Famed Tlingit storyteller Gene Tagaban joined RES youth onstage to perform Wacanga, a play celebrating the traditional stories from each of our young people’s respective tribes. Wacanga was also performed on Sunday, December 12th at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center.
Wacanga was written by Red Eagle Soaring teaching artist Drew Hobson (Pamunky).
Raven
A fanciful and physically dynamic Coast Salish-style interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ‘Qawqs’ was performed on August 13th, 2010 at the conclusion of Red Eagle Soaring’s 12th Annual SIYAP (“Seattle Indian Youth Arts and Performance”) two-week performing arts camp held at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in Seattle’s Discovery Park.
Resurrection City
Debuted on March 28th, 2010 at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, Resurrection City (the name given to the Indian encampment outside the gates of Fort Lawton) is the musical re-enactment of the 1970 Bernie Whitebear led takeover of Fort Lawton that resulted in the creation of Daybreak Star and the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation. The performance was part of the larger 40th anniversary celebration of Bernie Whitebear’s legacy and this seminal moment in the history of the Native struggle for rights and visibility. Resurrection City – traipsing through the music, politics, and fashions of 1971 - celebrates the activists who raised the public’s consciousness about contemporary Native existence and secured a spiritual home for generations of Seattle’s urban Natives to come.
