The Native American Rights Fund Presents
the 2nd Annual
Modern Day Warriors: Empowering the Young Voices of Native America
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
St. Julien Hotel Ballroom, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, CO
Free Admission & Open to the Public
(For Full Event Detail See Below)
Celebrate Native American month through a compelling and provocative look at contemporary Native America by some of the next big names to watch in Native American art.
5-7PM: Special Screening of Award-Winning 2007 Sundance Film "Four Sheets to the Wind"
7-10PM: Reception & Art Show
Also Official National Launch Party for NARF's New Art Book "Visions for the Future" (Fulcrum Press); Silent Auction & Live Musical Performances by Quese Imc & Meghan Meisters
NARF's nationally acclaimed art show, the subject of a new book by Fulcrum Press, is based on a national competition for young Native American artists ages 15-35. This dynamic event will be a virtual feast of the senses with the exhibition of Native American visual art, live music, a reception, silent auction and much more! The event will be an unparalleled experience of some of the best and brightest that contemporary Native America has to offer. All Proceeds will benefit NARF's non-profit legal and advocacy work on behalf of the rights of Native Peoples. For full event details see below. For More Information Contact NARF: 303.447.8760/800.447.0784 or Email: crystal@narf.org
Event Sponsors:
The Native American Bank, Inez C. Moss Family of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, Aine Ungar & John Bevan
Event Information:
Modern Day Warriors Art Show: Saturday, November 10th, 2007
St. Julien Hotel Ballroom, 9th & Walnut St., Boulder CO
5-7pm: Special Screening of Award-Winning Film "Four Sheets to the Wind" (Sundance Film Festival) and Q & A with Director Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek). Click Here to View Trailer.
Sundance Film Festival 2007 Special Jury Prize Acting-Tamara Podemski
"enchanting and decidedly idiosyncratic dramatic entrant, "Four Sheets to the Wind." A captivating crowd-pleaser..."
-Duane Byrge, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Like its shy hero, "Four Sheets to the Wind" is so low-key it risks making little impression -- until you realize it (and he) has stealthily won viewer sympathy and affection. "
-Dennis Harvey, VARIETY
"wonderfuly oddball comedy while also being a very heart-felt statement about expanding on the person you are and finding your true voice."
-Zach Haddad, FILM Threat
7-10PM: THE MAIN EVENT...
MODERN DAY WARRIORS ART SHOW:
EMPOWERING THE VOICES OF YOUNG NATIVE AMERCA
ART SHOW, RECEPTION, SILENT AUCTION & LIVE MUSIC
Modern Day Warriors: Empowering the Voices of Young Native America is a compelling and provocative look at 21st century Native America through the eyes of young Native American artists. NARF's nationally acclaimed 2nd annual art show will feature 40 visual works of art by Native American artists ages 15-35. Artists have been selected from a national competition sponsored by NARF.
All selected artists and their works will be featured in Volume II of the NARF Art Show Book to be published in 2008 by Fulcrum Press. Three best-in-show winners to be announced at the show with finalists winning a trip to attend the Modern Day Warriors art show and cash prizes. All works will be available for sale with proceeds benefiting the non-profit legal and advocacy work of NARF on behalf of the rights of Native peoples.
Also taking place from 7-10pm....
Official National Book Launch: "Visions for the Future: A Celebration of Young Native American Artists, Volume I" by the Native American Rights Fund (Fulcrum Publishing).
“Art is a weapon…It’s about telling stories that have not been told. It’s about reclaiming visual space.”
-Thomas Ryan Red Corn (Osage), Artist
Visions for the Future, a new book by Fulcrum Publishing and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF),
celebrates contemporary Native American artists and shares their unique views on the twenty-first century. These provocative works capture the vivid emergence taking shape in the Native American art world. Each piece is accompanied by the young artists’ perspectives on art, identity, and the future of Indian Country. A portion of the proceeds will benefit NARF, the oldest and largest nonprofit law firm dedicated to asserting and defending the rights of Indian tribes, organizations, and individuals nationwide. Copies will be available for sale at the art show and may be signed by cover artist, Bunky Echo-Hawk, and NARF Executive Director John Echohawk. Available in bookstores nationwide in November 2007.
LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCES BY...
Quese Imc (Pawnee/Seminole)-Los Angeles, CA
Click Here to Hear Quese Imc's Music
Quese Imc is an award-winning Hip Hop Emcee, independent music producer, and cultural activist. Quese’s artistic style mixes the modern substance of freestyling, Hip Hop, and Funk with strictly traditional Native American forms and traditional values. His lyrical style is a unique, cultured-eclectic, soulful, and moving way of expressing his idea of Hip Hop music. Quese also performs traditional Seminole and Pawnee songs-showing that this young Native performer can easily flow between different worlds and genres of music.
Quese Imc is a 2006 "Album of the Year" Award from First Americans in the Arts and has also appeared on MTV’s “Def Jam.” Some of acts that Quese has opened for include: Snoop Dogg; Ludacris; Tyrese; Cee-Lo; Grandmaster Flash; The Pharcyde; Hieroglyphics; Atmosphere; and Kumbia Kings. Quese also serves as a promotional spokesperson for NARF and appeared and wrote the music for in its recent national PSA Campaign "The Indian Wars Never Ended."
Meghan Meisters (Dene), Winnipeg, Manitoba-Canada/Los Angeles, CA
Click Here to Hear Meghan Meister's Music
This Dene Aboriginal Canadian R & B/Acoustic Soul Singer has been described as a cross between Alicia Keys, Nelly Furtado & Norah Jones. Nevertheless, Meghan has a distinctive sound all of her own and will be making her Colorado-debut at NARF's Modern Day Warriors Art Show. She has played throughout Canada and has had recent appearances in Los Angeles at the House of Blue's "Foundation Room."
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