Annual Summer Moon Pow-wow
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| Dates: | Sat, Sun from 7/16/16 - 7/17/16 |
| Hours: | 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM |
| Ages: | Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Outdoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Arts & Culture |
Center for Native American Awareness and is open to the public.
This is an opportunity to share in Native American culture and experience music, dance, crafts, storytelling food, and other traditions that are part of this family-friend event.
Gates open to the public from 11 AM to 5 PM both days.
For entertainment this year, we will have the Medicine Mammals Singers, a vocal harmony group.
They will perform traditional and contemporary Native songs accompanied by hand drums, rattles, guitars and rain sticks.
Mashpee Wampanoag artist and craft maker, Kerri Helme will do craft making with the kids.
Children are encouraged to go over to her table to make a traditional corn husk doll or a traditional clay pinch pot.
Each child will be able to make one and take it home with them.
Kerri will also set up other activities and Native games around her area for the children to partake in throughout the weekend.
Sit back and enjoy the various dance-style demonstrations inside the Circle.
They will include the lady’s fancy shawl dance, jingle dress dance, grass dance, crow hop, lady's traditional dance, and men's traditional dance.
Then join in some of the inter-tribal dancing.
The public is always welcomed and encouraged to share in these dances especially the children.
Native American drumming and singing is the background music for the dancers.
Drumming will be performed by the Urban Thunder Singers.
The drum is the heartbeat of the Native American.
Without the drum, there could be no pow-wow.
An educational component of the events which has become very popular is the workshop by Claudia Fox Tree, M.Ed.
– Arawak (Yurumein).
Interactive conversations are held for about 30 minutes about First Nations People (Native American) identity, culture, and history with this professional educator.
Attendees will learn and discover First Nations female role-models and their contributions to contemporary society and Native American history and culture.
It will begin around 11:30 AM each day.
At scheduled times, children will gather in or around the tipi for storytelling with Loril Moondream and Peter White Fox.
The stories and legends are about animals, nature, and Native American traditions.
Arts and crafts will be available for purchase from the vendors who’ll be set up outside the Program Circle.
A sampling of the items include Wampum jewelry, beaded jewelry, silver and turquoise jewelry, carved bone jewelry, aromatic cedar feather boxes, paintings, Native-themed clothing and hats, bamboo musical instruments, ponchos, rattles, blankets and so much more.
Food will be available for purchase by Silver Moon, a Mashpee Wampanoag family.
Some of the traditional Native foods will include Three Sisters Rice (rice, beans corn & squash); Fry bread, Seafood Chowder, Fish Cakes, Strawberry Moon Tea, as well as some American fare that includes hamburgers and hot dogs.
The Mass.
Center for Native American Awareness will have a resource table that will include information, event flyers, newsletters, membership applications and other information that might be of value and interest to our attendees.
They will also be selling T-shirts with the organization’s logo which represents The Circle of Unity, The Four Directions, The Pipe of Peace, and The Feather of Brotherhood.
Raffle tickets will also be on sale at this table.
We welcome everyone to this public event.
Visitors are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets for seating.
For more information: Call: 617-642-1683, E-mail [email protected] or Website: www.mcnaa.org
| COST | ↑ top |
Adult admission: $5.00, Seniors & MCNAA Members: $4.00; Children (4-12 years) 3.00; Children 3 years and under: FREE. Parking is FREE.
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| LOCATION | ↑ top |
57 Forest St., Danvers, MA, 01923 map
Phone: 617-642-1683
Off Route 62 to Forest Street, Danvers, MA
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