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Friday, June 19, 2015 5:00pm VIP Golden Hour 6:00pm Dinner and Cultural Arts Program Save the Date! Make your reservation now for: The Fourth Annual An Evening with Wisdom of the Elders Includes salmon dinner, cultural arts presentations, and silent auction Friday,...
January Discovering Our Story TV
Our January 2015 guest was Linda Nilsen-Solares, MPA. Linda serves as Executive Director for Project Access NOW, which connects low-income, uninsured people to donated care across the Portland metropolitan area. Linda has had diverse experience in the world of health...
November Discovering Our Story TV
Bill Ray and Nico Wind discuss the upcoming Wisdom of the Elders Radio Program, Series Four: Indigenous Response to Environmental and Climate Issues.
Discovering Yidong Xinag documentaries, Radio Programs and Student Screenings:
Wisdom is preparing for 2015 film festivals with two documentary film entries: Athabascans: The Caribou People and Inupiaq: People of the Whale. These 30-minute productions feature Alaska Native elders and cultural leaders along with observations of unprecedented...
Discovering Our Story Television Program airs live on Sunday December 7:
Our December guest is Crow artist Wendy Red Star. Wendy is a practicing artist whose work explores the intersection between life on the Crow Indian reservation and the world outside of that environment. Her work has been shown at the Missoula Museum of the Arts,...
Wisdom accepting #GivingTuesday and end of year donations via PayPal:
When you become a Friend of Wisdom of the Elders by making automatic monthly donations through PayPal, you will receive an invitation to dinner in January with co-founder Rose High Bear at Wisdom's Kelly Butte House and Gardens. We appreciate your support which helps...
Northwest Indian Storytelling Festival starts Wednesday evening!
Wednesday Oct 8, 7 PM [Buy Tickets] Providence ElderPlace Gresham 2600 SE 170th Ave, Portland, OR 97236 Ed Edmo (Shoshone-Bannock, Nez Perce) Victor Mandan (Mandan, Hidatsa) Woodrow Morrison (Haida) Thursday, Oct 9, 7 PM [Buy Tickets] Parkrose Community United Church...
Ninth Annual Northwest IndianStorytelling Festival October 8-12, 2014
The Northwest Indian Storytelling Association (NISA) celebrated its ninth season of traditional tribal storytelling here in the Pacific Northwest. Friends and relatives joined us from around the region and generations of tribal storytellers gathered to listen to and...
Wisdom of the Elders Radio Series Four: Indigenous Responseto Environmental and Climate Issues
Wisdom's radio production team is getting ready to release the first two Wisdom of the Elders Radio Programs. Series Four will feature stories, songs, and science from indigenous elders and cultural leaders of the Inupiat and Athabascans of Alaska and their response...
2014 Ninth Annual NISA Storytelling Festival & Emerging Storyteller Workshops
The Northwest Indian Storytellers Association (NISA) 2014 NW Indian Storytelling Festival and Emerging Traditional Storytellers Workshops celebrated the ninth season of traditional storytelling in the Pacific Northwest. With friends and relatives joining us from...