EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS CAlendar JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2013
FEATURED PUBLIC PROGRAMS
INDIAN SUMMER SHOWCASE CONCERT: RANFERI AGUILAR Saturday, June 8 5 p.m.
Outdoor Welcome Plaza
Ranferi Aguilar and his band, Hacedores de lluvia (“The Rainmakers”), hail from Guatemala and perform ancestral Maya music fused with guitars, pre-Hispanic wind instruments and vocals. Aguilar was a co-founder of Guatemala’s most famous rock band, Alux Nahual, who went in search of his Mesoamerican Mayan roots, as well as authentic instruments which continue to inspire his musical career.
CERAMICA DE LOS ANCESTROS: A CENTRAL AMERICAN POTTERY FESTIVAL Saturday, June 8 – Sunday, June 9 10:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Potomac Atrium, imagiNATIONS Activity Center, Firepit
Learn more about Central America through food demonstrations by the museum’s Mitsitam Cafe. Take a closer look at the animals, flutes and pottery in the museum’s latest exhibition and create a clay medallion based on designs found in the museum’s collection. Learn how various pottery flutes are played, including one filled with water. Enjoy a Maya pottery-dance performance by Aval. Enjoy the creations of Carlos Chaclan, a Quiche Maya ceramicist from Guatemala who specializes in recreating pre-Hispanic musical wind instruments.
This festival is inspired by the exhibition, Ceramica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed, which was co-organized by the National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center and received federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithso- nian Latino Center.
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DINNER & A MOVIE: PEOPLE OF THE KATTAWAPISKAK RIVER Saturday, June 15 Dinner from 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Mitsitam Cafe Screening at 7 p.m. Rasmuson Theater, First Level
Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River (2012, 50 min.) Canada, exposes the housing crisis faced by 1,700 Cree in Northern Ontario, a situation that led Attawapiskat’s band chief, Theresa Spence, to ask the Canadian Red Cross for help. With the Idle No More movement mak- ing front page headlines, this film provides background and context for one aspect of the growing crisis.
NATIVE FESTIVAL: CHOCTAW DAYS Friday, June 21 – Saturday, June 22 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Potomac Atrium and various museum locations
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma celebrates its tribal history and heritage with two days
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