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We Are Sacred: An Indigenous Peoples Celebration
The following description was submitted by the event organizer.
We Are Sacred: An Indigenous Peoples Celebration honors Indigenous culture, resilience, and community. The daylong event features Indigenous vendors and live music by BlueFlamez, a current Fields Fellow with Oregon Community Foundation, and winner of Best Music Video from the Tokyo Film Festival (2023) and recipient of a Native American Music Award for Best Music Video (2016). The day culminates with a performance of a new play by Blossom Johnson, Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) Or, A Boarding School Play.
Vendors include Many Stages LLC, a Black Seminole and Ojibwe-owned business that crafts handmade beaded jewelry and recovery goods and RRB Native Jewelry, a business run by Diné and Hopi artists that specializes in southwest-style jewelry and silver work, along with stickers. Wasco Fisheries is a Warm Springs entrepreneur who carries smoked salmon. A Diné business that specializes in Indigenized antiques and original jewelry designs, Love Adorned by Lori Tazbah also carries the work of Native pop artist Steven Paul Judd. Red Road is a business run by several generations of Lakota/Welsh/First Nations women. They specialize in traditional art made with bear, buffalo, moose, deer and Elk leather.
Native Theater Project is collaborating with Portland State University’s Native American Student and Community Center for We Are Sacred: An Indigenous Peoples Celebration. The daylong event is free, with tickets for the evening performance available at www.bagnbaggage.org or from the Bag&Baggage box office directly at boxoffice@bagnbaggage.org or (503) 345-9590×1.
Free tickets for Native people with the code Skoden.