Storyweaving Sharing event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nRIG funds were specifically requested and used as honorariums to assist tribal community members in participating in Muriel Miguel\u2019s residency and workshop on May 16. RIG funding allowed nine members of Oregon tribal communities to travel to UO and participate in the day-long workshop by helping provide for travel expenses. Tribal participants included two members of Grande Ronde, one member of Karuk, and six members of Warm Springs. Members of the Klamath, Siletz, and Coquille tribes were also invited but were unable to attend.<\/p>\n
RIG funding also provided for the design and printing of a poster to advertise the week\u2019s events and to list and network promotion of the events to UO community, tribal communities, and other local and regional groups. RIG funding helped provide for video documentation of Muriel Miguel\u2019s keynote \u201cSpiderwoman Theater Retrospective\u201d and video and photography of the Storyweaving Workshop. Finally, RIG funding provided for a dinner with Spiderwoman Theater guests, guest scholar Jean O\u2019Hara, RIG members, and other guests.<\/p>\n
The main events of the Spiderwoman Residency were well attended and generated excitement at the intersection of Native\/queer identities, Native theatre and storytelling, and Native presence on the UO campus. Dr. O\u2019Hara and Muriel Miguel\u2019s scholar\u2019s talk on May 12 in the Many Nations Longhouse drew over 45 people, including students from classes in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Theatre Arts, as well as faculty, staff, and community members. The discussion following the presentation was electric and engaging. The Spiderwoman Retrospective Lecture on Friday evening May 15 likewise included a diverse intersection of community audience, students, faculty, and staff.<\/p>\n
The culminating event, the Storyweaving Workshop on May 16, was both intergenerational and represented a remarkable intersection of constituencies. About one third of the group were UO students and staff, about one third were tribal members, and about one third were people from the Eugene\/Springfield community. All ages were represented, including tribal elders and young people, older community members, graduate and undergraduate students, and UO staff. Tribal participants came from across the state, including Ashland and Warm Springs. The workshop represented a rich sharing of stories and storytelling methods, and a collaborative learning opportunity and exchange between UO students and staff, community, and tribal members. Participants expressed a desire to have more such forums for creative exchange and appreciated that the university had hosted an inclusive (and free) event of this kind.<\/p>\n
Taken together, the events of the Spiderwoman Residency brought focus to the power of Native Theatre and Native storytelling, and increased visibility of Native presence on the UO campus. Muriel Miguel was interviewed as part of an article in the Daily Emerald that same week on Native identity on campus. The Residency brought attention to Native and women\u2019s issues and concerns, particularly in a KLCC interview with Muriel Miguel, which aired on May 14: http:\/\/klcc.org\/post\/spiderwoman-theater-bringing-light-native-american-and-womens-issues. \u25a0<\/p>\n
More History<\/h6>\n
In spring 2009 CSWS helped fund the Native Theatre Panel at the EMOS Symposium. The panel preceded a staged reading of a community-based play about the salmon crisis on the Klamath River, developed by Theresa May with Karuk, Hupa, and Yurok community members.\u00a0 In spring 2011, the Department of Theatre Arts will produce Salmon Is Everything <\/em>on the Robinson Stage on campus. The RIG will sponsor a guest artist or scholar to give a public presentation and lead a discussion following a performance of Salmon Is Everything<\/em>.<\/p>\nThis small beginning will lead, in the future, to national and international exchanges of artists, scholars and others.\u00a0 For example, recently Theresa May brought First Nations playwright and filmmaker Marie Clements to campus for the production of her play Burning Vision<\/em>. While she was at UO, members of this (yet unformed) RIG met with Marie Clements and discussed her newest performance piece, the Edward Curtis Project<\/em>. This large-scale multimedia performance serves as a dialogue between Curtis\u2019s representation of indigenous people of North America, and the self-representation of Clements.\u00a0 We have discussed bringing this performance to campus as the centerpiece for a symposium or exhibition on (for example) representation and re-representation of indigenous women.<\/p>\nConcurrently, the RIG coordinator is working on a long-term project entitled \u201cWomen and Rivers,\u201d which develops a stage performance by and about indigenous women and their role in the health of the Northwest\u2019s rivers.\u00a0 The RIG anticipates other projects and\/or speakers that may interface with this project, or the ongoing projects and research interests of other RIG members.<\/p>\n
Contact for more information:<\/h6>\n
Theresa May, Theatre Arts
\ntmay33(at)uoregon.edu; (541) 346-1789<\/p>\n
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<\/a>CSWS Research Matters<\/em>, Winter 2011: \u201cSalmon, Women, and Rivers: Community-Based Performance Research\u201d<\/a> by Theresa J. May, assistant professor, Theatre Arts<\/p>\nYou can watch an interview with Theresa May on UO Today at this link: http:\/\/media.uoregon.edu\/channel\/?p=622<\/p>\n
UO Today #410 Theresa May<\/p>\n
\u201cThis episode features Theresa May, assistant professor of Theatre Arts and director of \u201cEarth Matters on Stage: An Ecodrama Playwrights Festival and Symposium on Theatre Ecology.\u201d Theresa is the co-author of the book Greening Up Our Houses: A Guide to a More Ecologically Sound Theatre (1994), and is currently working on a book entitled, Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology in American Theatre (2010). Through her work, she explores how playhouses across the country can be more ecologically friendly, thus helping and nurturing our natural resources.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Indigenous Women of the Northwest: Culture, Community, and Concerns RIG aims to develop research projects with indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest that will serve as models for collaboration between university and community, and among scholars, artists, and activists.…<\/p>\n
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The Indigenous Women of the Northwest: Culture, Community, and Concerns RIG aims to develop research projects with indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest that will serve as models for collaboration between university and community, and among scholars, artists, and activists. Indigenous women are leaders in their communities, working in areas of ecological and human health and healing, education, and arts and culture. This RIG is interested not only in documenting and reporting on the significant role that women play in the vitality of their communities, but in developing collaborative projects\u2014scholarly, creative, and practical\u2014that strengthen those roles and build ongoing partnerships between indigenous communities, the university, and the larger society.\u00a0 The RIG recognizes and privileges situated knowledge, self-representation, and multi-vocal approaches to knowledge production.<\/p>\n![\"Fall_14_CSWS_RM\"](\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fall_14_CSWS_RM.jpg\")
<\/a>In May 2015, Theresa May\u2019s Women and Rivers Project [see