EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS
CAlendar DECEMBER 2018/JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019
Talibah Begay (Navajo).
WINTER BLAST: A FAMILY WEEKEND OF NATIVE GAMES Friday, Jan. 25: School program and teacher workshop Saturday, Jan. 26 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Join us for a family-friendly event celebrat- ing Indigenous games from the Arctic to Argentina. Join Talibah Begay (Navajo) as she shares a traditional Nashoe game, test your skill with Leihua Stewart (Native Hawaiian) and traditional Hawaiian games and learn to play Bolivian games with Julia Garcia (Amayra).
CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL Saturday, Feb. 9 and Sunday, Feb. 10 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Do you love chocolate? Don’t miss the Museum’s popular event dedicated to the history of chocolate. Enjoy tastings, cooking demonstrations and hands-on activities while listening to songs played on a traditional wooden harp.
MOTHER TONGUE FILM FESTIVAL Opening Night with Edge of the Knife (2018, 105 min.) Canada. Thursday, Feb. 21 The third annual Mother Tongue Film Festival opens on the United Nations’ Inter- national Mother Language Day. Directed by Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown, Edge of the Knife presents a compelling story about friendship, redemption and com- munity. Notably, it is the fi rst feature fi lmed in two dialects of the Haida language. This festival of feature- and short-length fi lms celebrates the importance of Indigenous language around the world and focuses on the topic of language revitalization and the quest to teach younger generations languages that are rapidly disappearing.
The Mother Tongue Film Festival is presented by the Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices Initiative.
42 AMERICAN INDIAN WINTER 2018
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
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