 Archival photo from Emerging Storytellers Workshop during the Third Annual NISA Festival in 2007. How many faces do you recognize? |
Northwest Indian Storytellers Association (NISA) Advisory Council invites NISA members and potential new NISA members to this year’s Emerging Tribal Storytellers Workshop and Storytelling Festival being held on November 12-14 in Portland at Lewis and Clark College.
Tribal members from any community are encouraged to join NISA and attend the workshop which culminates in an Emerging Storytellers Matinee on Sunday afternoon, 14 November. If you are enrolled with a Native American or Alaskan Native tribal community, or self-identified as Native American, you are welcome to join NISA and register for this workshop. Membership in NISA is free. Registration for the workshop is $30 plus an auction item for our silent auction. This registration fee provides you with a free pass to two nights of the festival, Friday and Saturday, 12-13 November; the Emerging Storytellers Matinee on Sunday, 14 November; and 5 meals (3 meals on Saturday and 2 meals on Sunday).
This two-day Emerging Tribal Storytellers Workshop is on Saturday and Sunday, 13-14 November 2010. This workshop is part of the Northwest Indian Storytellers Festival. Sponsors include Northwest Indian Storytellers Association, Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. (WISDOM), and the host, Indigenous Ways of Knowing Program at Lewis and Clark College’s Center for Community Engagement. The workshop will be held on the Lewis and Clark Campus at 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, Oregon.
You will need to register for the workshop in advance so we have the correct meal count. Just fill out the our application. You can e-mail or mail it to WISDOM. More information on the weekend of festivities will be sent to you the week prior to the festival and workshop.
NISA was formed in October 2005 to encourage, preserve and strengthen traditional storytelling among tribes in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and to share tribal oral cultural arts with the entire regional community. Among American Indian tribes throughout America, winter is storytelling time. Knowledge and wisdom, traditional cultural values and spiritual qualities, as well as tribal oral history and prophesy, are all imparted to younger generations through storytelling from generation to generation during the winter months.
For a map to the campus location, go to http://legacy.lclark.edu/GENERAL/MAPS/. For more information on the festival and emerging storytellers workshop for tribal community members, you can go to our website at www.wisdomoftheelders.org or contact Emily Olson by calling (503) 901-1791 or by e-mail at emily@wisdomoftheelders.org.