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Intermedia Arts hosts event in advance of International Indigenous Peoples' Day

SASE Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender (GLBT)

Reading Series

hosted by curators Andrea Jenkins and John Medeiros

SASE's GLBT Series is launched in its new space with performances this month by

Sharon Day and Richard LaFortune

When: Wednesday, November 23, 2005

7:00 p.m

Where: Intermedia Arts

2822 Lyndale Avenue South

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sharon M. Day, Ojibwe is an artist and an activist. She uses poetry,

images, and music to convey her messages to the community. Ms. Day

is an awarding artist and has performed at the Illusion Theater. She

makes music with the Neeconis Women Singers. Ms. Day is also the

Executive Director of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force.

 

 

Richard LaFortune (Anguksuar)-Yupik, Eskimo, tribe - is a Native language

researcher. He is past Director of Training for the National Native

American AIDS Prevention Center in Oakland CA; he served as Executive

Director of Honor the Earth, a non profit organization for Native

environmental justice issues, and he is a co-Founder of 2SPR (Two Spirit

Press Room), an intertribal GLBT Native critical literacy media project. He

has served on the Governor's Task Force for Lesbian & Gay Minnesotans, and

was elected Grand Marshal for Twin Cities Gay Pride 2005. His print poetry

was recently choreographed and included in a series of performances at

Lincoln Center, New York City. His writings appear in Living the Spirit (St.

Martin's Press, 1988), Two Spirit People (University of Illinois, 1997), and

selected poetry was curated at the Two Rivers Gallery at the Minneapolis

American Indian Center. He lives in Minneapolis.

Event is free and open to the public.

For more information, call 612-822-2500.

This reading is part of SASE's Carol Connolly Reading Series

and is co-sponsored by SASE: The Write Place and Intermedia Arts.

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Two Spirit artists and activists reclaim roles