NISA Emerging Storytellers Workshop, Fourth Annual Storytelling Festival and Symposium
November 13-15, 2009 at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon
Registration Form
You are invited to join Northwest Indian Storytellers Association Friday - Sunday, Nov 13-15, 2009 at Lewis and Clark College’s Agnes Flanagan Chapel in Portland, Oregon (97219). We will celebrate Pacific Northwest tribal storytelling season by featuring some of the region’s finest traditional and contemporary tribal tellers. Invocations from spiritual leaders, drummers and singers will open events.
Are you a Native American youth, an elder, an adult or a veteran? Or are you a tribal storyteller or oral historian? Would you like to become an emerging storyteller and learn from traditional teller to learn about the importance of traditional storytelling? If so, we welcome you to become a member of Northwest Indian Storytellers Association. Membership is free. Just fill out the registration below and e-mail it to NISA@wisdomoftheelders.org .
NISA was formed in October 2005 to encourage, preserve and strengthen traditional storytelling among tribes in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and to share tribal oral cultural arts with the entire regional community. NISA was formed by Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. (WOTE) Founded in 1993, WOTE is an American Indian 501(c)(3) not for profit corporation located in Portland, Oregon which records and preserves the oral history and cultural arts of exemplary American Indian storytellers, historians, song carriers, artists, and environmentalists. With a mission of cultural preservation, education and race reconciliation, we communicate these messages to diverse public audiences via public radio and website production, educational curriculum materials, and public events in collaboration with diverse arts, cultural and educational groups.
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