Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
September 26, 2018
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A Public Safety Picnic
Casting
for NW
Native
American
talent
The Warm Springs Public Safety Branch hosted a Sunday picnic,
including a barbecue, and sack races, and McGruff the Crime Dog
and Sparky the Fire Dog.
Jayson Smith photos/Spilyay
Museum: New executive director on board in Dec.
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Her paternal grandfather’s clan
is Ma‘ii deeshgiizhinii (Coyote
Pass–Jemez clan).
A renowned poet, author, essay-
ist and visual artist, Ms. Woody is
also an educator, mentor, collabo-
rator and community leader.
She earned a Master of Public
Administration degree through the
Mark O. Hatfield School of
Government’s Executive Leader-
ship Institute of Portland State
University; a Bachelor of Arts de-
gree in Humanities from the Ev-
ergreen State College; and studied
Creative Writing and Two-Dimen-
sional Arts at the Institute of
American Indian Arts, Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
She is the recipient of numer-
ous awards, including the Ameri-
OPB featuring Oregon Poet Laureate
The Oregon Public Broad-
casting series Oregon Art Beat
will feature Elizabeth Woody
and her appointment as
Oregon’s eighth Poet Laureate
on Thursday, October 25 at 8
can Book Award (1990), William
Stafford Memorial Award for Po-
etry (1995) and was a finalist for
the Oregon Book Awards (1995).
She has written three books of
poetry. In 2016 Ms. Woody be-
came the first Native American to
be named Oregon’s Poet Laureate.
In 2018 she received a National
Artist Fellowship in Literature
from the Native Arts and Cultures
Foundation.
p.m.
For a preview of the pro-
gram and to find local listings
visit:
www.opb.org/television/pro-
grams/artbeat/
Ms. Woody has taught at the
Institute of American Indian Arts
and Portland State University. She
is an alumna of the first Kellogg
Foundation’s Fellowship through
Americans
for
Indian
Opportunity’s Ambassadors pro-
gram.
She has led writing workshops,
lectures and has served on multi-
disciplinary art fellowship jury
panels for several foundations and
arts organizations nationally. She is
presently on the Board of Direc-
tors of Soapstone: Celebrating Women
Writers, and Willamette University
Advisory Council for Native Pro-
grams.
“On behalf of the Board of
Directors of the Museum at Warm
Springs, we are pleased to welcome
Elizabeth Woody as executive direc-
tor as we celebrate the Museum’s
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary,” said
Museum board president Douglas
Goe.
“We are confident that
Elizabeth’s familiarity with the mu-
seum and its current needs and
goals, her strong fundraising and
leadership skills, and her love of the
history, arts and culture of the
Warm Springs people will serve her
extremely well in her post.”
BendFilm: Festival at Performing Arts Center
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S m o k e S i g n a l s , directed
Chris Eyre. Twentieth Anniversary.
The story: Though Victor and
Thomas have lived their entire
young lives in the same tiny town,
they couldn’t have less in common.
But when Victor is urgently called
away, it’s Thomas who comes up
with the money to pay for his trip.
Starring Adam Beach (S u i c i d e
S q u a d , W i n d Ta l ke r s ), Evan
Adams, and Irene Bedard.
Join Us , director and writer,
Ondi Timoner.
Four families leave an abusive
church in South Carolina and real-
ize they have been in a cult. The
film documents them as they en-
ter the only accredited, live-in cult
treatment facility in the world,
where they learn the true extent
of the brainwashing they have all
experienced.
The Last Hot Lick , directed
by Mahalia Cohen. Central Or-
egon premiere.
Jack is a washed-up musician
on a never-ending tour, desperate
to recapture the fleeting fame he
experienced in the 1970s. When he
meets a mysterious woman, he be-
lieves her beautiful voice is the key
to his success; but she has a secret
that could threaten Jack’s plan.
Yo u C a n C h o o s e Yo u r
Fa m i l y , directed by Miranda
Bailey. Oregon premiere.
A normal father’s family life is
turned upside down when his son
discovers he has another family.
Starring comedian Jim Gaffigan,
Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad), Alex
Karpovsky (G i r l s ), Samantha
Mathis (Pump Up the Volume).
White Tide: The Legend
of Culebra , directed by Theo
Love. Oregon premiere.
Rodney is an American
dreamer, but when the great re-
cession wipes out his construction
business, his family faces a night-
mare of debt. One evening
around a campfire, he hears a story
from an old, bare-footed hippy
that just might solve his family’s
problems. There’s an island.
There’s a map. And there’s buried
treasure…
The festival schedule for Ma-
dras screenings is online at
BendFilm.org
All access wristbands for the
Madras shows are available for
purchase now for $25, and indi-
vidual tickets are available at $5.
“Madras Performing Arts Cen-
ter is honored to once again be
part of the BendFilm Festival, and
to help them celebrate 15 years
of independent cinema,” said
Shannan Ahern, director Perform-
ing Arts Center director.
“The eight feature films set to
screen in Madras showcase a wide
range of styles and stories and there
is truly something for everyone in
the line up,” Mrs. Ahern said.
In all, the 2018 BendFilm Festi-
val will screen 44 feature films, 47
short films and award over $10,000
in prizes directly to independent
filmmakers.
This year in celebration of
BendFilm’s Fifteenth Anniversary,
audiences can look forward to a
range of other programs and en-
tertainment including panel discus-
sions, interactive movie experiences,
spontaneous performances, street
theater, music and virtual reality.
The Bend Film Festival is sup-
ported in part by a grant from the
Bend Cultural Tourism Fund, the
Collins Foundation, Oregon Cul-
tural Trust, the Roundhouse Foun-
dation, Oregon Community Foun-
dation, and the Deschutes Cultural
Coalition.
In-person Hopi Women’s Show at Sisters’ gallery
Sonwai, Pesavensi and Dorothy
Ami will be in Sisters this Friday
through Sunday, September 28-30.
Jewelers, painters and potters, these
women span the artistic culture of
the matriarchal Hopi society.
The Hopi tribe has a highly re-
fined society that goes back over
1,000 years upon their traditional
homelands—three great ‘Island-in-
the-Sky’ mesas in Northeastern Ari-
zona. Anthropologists have often
compared them to Tibetan Bud-
dhists; other Native American
tribes attest to their consummate
spiritualism
Sonwai spent 25 years appren-
ticing under her uncle, Charles
Loloma, considered the greatest
Native American jeweler ever.
She is widely regarded as the
great Hopi jeweler of today, and
one of the finest jewelers in the
United States.
Pesavensi began painting after
retiring from a career working for
the Hopi tribe. Her works are
composed of locally collected
earthen pigments, ground by
hand, and the works honor the
mysticism of her people.
Dorothy Ami learned to craft
award winning pottery from her
uncle, the celebrated Mark Tahbo.
These traditional pots are still
hand made, fired, and painted as
they were centuries ago.
Sonwai and Pesavensi are from
Third Mesa, while Dorothy is
from First Mesa. This will be the
first visit for any of them to the
Pacific Northwest.
The only other time their works
can be seen together is during the
annual Native American art
shows—the Santa Fe Indian Mar-
ket, the third weekend of August,
or the Heard Museum Show in
Painting by
Pesavensi;
and jewelry by
Sonwai; and
pottery by
Dororthy.
Phoenix, first weekend of March.
The artist reception in Sisters
is this Friday, September 28 from
4–7 p.m.
An open forum, question and
answer discussion will take place
Saturday afternoon from 1:30 to
2:30. Sunday, hours are 11 a.m.–4
p.m. This show will be offered at
Raven Makes Gallery, 182 E Hood
Avenue, Sisters.
Simon Max Hill Casting is
looking for Northwest Native
American talent for two up-
coming projects. Here are
some details about the
projects, and how to submit
to casting:
First Cow is set in 1820s
Northwest, and has a num-
ber of roles portraying Chi-
nook traders.
Lorelei is set in modern
Oregon, and has a dozen or
so roles that are open to all.
First Cow is a FilmScience
production. FilmScience has
has produced several features
that have been nominated for
six Independent Spirit
Awards, and screened at fes-
tivals around the world.
F i r s t C o w synopsis:
Cookie Figowitz is the hired
cook for a group of rough
men on a fur trapping expe-
dition in the 1820s Oregon
Territory. One night in the
woods he meets King-Lu, a
mysterious man fleeing from
some vengeful Russians.
This is the story of their
burgeoning friendship in the
ever-changing Northwest
landscape—and a get-rich-
quick scheme involving the
first cow in the territory.
Characters: Three lead
roles are being cast locally:
Illche, who is Chinook, wife
of an important, prosperous
Chinook trader.
Young Chinook trader: an
inquisitive, watchful young
man.
Chinook woman: A young
woman who gets hit on by
another Chinook trader, then
negotiates a trade deal with
him.
Note: All lines will be trans-
lated into Chinook Wawa for
the shoot, and production will
provide a dialect coach.
Lorelei project summary:
Writer-director Sabrina Doyle
is teaming up with producers
Kevin Chinoy and Francesca
Silvestri (The Florida Project) as
well as Jennifer Radzikowski
(Moonlight); and co-producer
Lara Cuddy (The Benefits of
Gusbandry).
Synopsis: A lonely ex-
criminal, Wayland, meets an
overworked single Mother,
Dolores, whose dreams have
always come second to her
family. What follows is a
starkly poetic mediation of
love, regret and second
chances as a new type of
American family is forged.
Characters: There are
roles for teenagers to the eld-
erly available in this project.
Simon Max Hill is casting
about 20 day player roles, any
of which could be cast locally.
How to submit for either
project: Please fill out the
form at:
submissions.smhcasting.
com/projects/150/submis-
sions/new
Casting is through Octo-
ber. Questions or problems
submitting an application,
please email:
submissions@smhcasting.com
The Warm Springs Police
Department has an
Anonymous Crime Tip
Line. Call 541-553-2202. If
you have information about
criminal activity and wish
to report without identify-
ing yourself, call this tip
line to leave a message.