Borderlands Theater in Tucson, Arizona, offers a unique immigration study guide to accompany its production of "Visitor's Guide to Arivaca (Map Not to Scale)," September 23-24, 2007. The play by attorney/playwright Evangeline Ordáz, set in an actual desert border town, draws on interviews with ranchers, Tohono O’Odham tribal members, humanitarian workers, vigilantes and those who risk the perilous journey across the border from Mexico. The richly hyperlinked online study guide details the tense background of the play, including the roles and influence of Arizona immigration politics and legislation, NAFTA, Operation Gatekeeper and all the "players" in the border crisis. Most interesting are the activities suggested for exploring "Visitor's Guide" before and after the play. Human-rights groups partnering with the theater project include Samaritans, No More Deaths, Derechos Humanos and Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras. [LINK]

Today CAN brings you a "Creative Economy Practitioner's Toolkit: Taking Advantage of Campus and Community Resources" by three New York researchers. Created by arts researcher Susan Monagan, economic geographer Susan Christopherson and entrepreneurship expert Suzanne Loker, the toolkit is excerpted from their recent research paper on creative-economy initiatives in New York. They focus on the potential role of higher-education institutions in building local creative economies and lay out specific strategies for community and regional economic-development planning. These strategies include: stakeholder gatherings, super-collaborators, local and regional arts councils, festivals and special events, collaborative organizational designs, service-learning arts projects, student-led community arts projects, research collaborations and arts-based brick-and-mortar projects. The toolkit is followed by research references and an appendix of useful national and New York State creative-economy resources. [LINK]

Participants should wear comfortable clothing, closed shoes and bug repellent and bring along drinking water for two end-of-summer art outings in ... New York City? "The City From a Plant's Perspective: Mapping NYC as Native Flora," an iLAB 2007 collaboration, will take trekkers on walks through Brooklyn's neighborhoods: Floyd Bennett Field (September 30, 2007) and Coney Island (October 4-5). The events are the public-engagement portions of a four-month residency by Lise Brenner, N.Y. choreographer; Ulrich Lorimer, Brooklyn Botanical Garden native-plants curator; Katrina Simon, Australian landscape architect/visual artist; and Jonathan Zalben, N.Y. composer/sound artist. They've been combining their disciplines in order to creatively reconsider the city from a native plant's point of view and creating maps, movement/listening practices and forms of identification. It's sponsored by iLAND (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance). [LINK]

Artists' views on working in the public realm will be the focus of "Live in Public: The Art of Engagement," a conference in Vancouver, B.C., October 11-13, 2007. Organized by Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre and the artist-run grunt gallery, the conference will reveal the artists' point of view on roles, risks, expectations and breakthroughs in community public art, interventions, relational art and art-engaged activism. Keynote address is by Laurie McGauley of Sudbury, Ontario’s Myths and Mirrors. Presenters include Montreal-based ATSA, Pierre Allard and Annie Roy, whose works for the public realm take the form of interventions, installations, performance art and realistic stagings; and Edgar Heap of Birds, multidisciplinary artist using forms of public art messages, large-scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture. [LINK]

If a truly biophlilic society created a city, what would it look like, asks Green Century Institute, announcing its Califia Sketchbook Design Competition. Green Century wants input from people around the world about what life will be like in Califia, a proposed "next generation eco-city" in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. They are soliciting "conceptual sketches revealing smarter, greener ways of building, powering maintaining and inhabiting the urban fabric. We believe that allowing for more direct public involvement in the design of future living spaces is the first step in a successful eco-city project." Competition is open September 1-December 1, 2007; first prize is $2,000. All entries will be published on the Green Century site (see site for guidelines). Green Century is a nonprofit research center working in green urbanism and sustainable cities since 2002. [LINK]

Oral histories of the gentrification of Santa Monica, Calif., were heard during "Outflow: Where Will We Live," a presentation at Highways Performance Space, August 25-27, 2007. Santa Monica’s rents keep rising, and its population undergoes a slow fade to white, says Stephen Leigh Morris in the L.A. Weekly (8/21/07). Through a series of workshops, the artists of TeAda Productions mined personal and public oral histories from residents of the southern California beach city, focusing on the longstanding effects of gentrification and displacement. "Like a performance-art cousin of Cornerstone Theatre Company," says Morris, "TeAda Productions goes inside communities and gathers stories for theatrical offerings that bring homegrown insight and the kind of staging that might be more raw and freeform than traditional forms of presentation." Joy Anderson, Jessica Gudiel, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Mitsu Salmon and others performed. [LINK]

Those attending a September "vernacular environments" conference in Wisconsin will make excursions to Wisconsin Concrete Park, the Rudolph Grotto, the Painted Forest and the Forevertron. Field trips to these permanent installations in the landscape around Sheboygan are part of "Taking the Road Less Traveled: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists," a conference at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, September 27–30, 2007. It's all built around "Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds," an exhibition at Kohler through January 2008, comprising the work of 22 artist-environment builders represented in its collection of some 10,000 individual works: mysterious machines and concrete menageries, thrones of bone and towers of steel, volumes of poetry and libraries of wordless books. Conference activities will examine the “lived art environment” and issues arising around its preservation. The show and conference are accompanied by a book by curator Leslie Umberger. [LINK]

The Teachers College at Columbia University in New York has some offerings for the public in Fall 2007 that CAN users might find interesting. "The Art of Observation," October 1-2, is a Continuing Ed course originally initiated by The Frick Collection in 2000 to enhance the observation, perception and communication skills of medical students and was subsequently adapted for members of the New York City Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation; now it's open to all. "Youth 2.0 - Self-Expression and Exhibitionism," Sundays in November, is a CEU course on the Internet-influenced shift from consumption to media production, the rise of "amateur culture" and how to think, write and teach about it. And CAN's Burnham and Durland will be part of "Conversations Across Culture: Community Arts Education, Exploring Possibilities," a conference set for November 9-10. [LINK]

"Keep Arts in Schools" is an exciting new Web site designed to "equip individuals with what they need to make compelling cases for arts education." Part the Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program, the site was created by a public-interest communications firm, Douglas Gould and Company. It's packed with news, video clips, research, case studies and tools (for writing a letter to the business community requesting support, using the Web to create an online petition or providing testimony at a school-board meeting, etc.). There are links to articles, national studies and Web sites on arts education -- categorized for families, advocacy, policy, talking points, media communication, assessments and more. The Programs section keeps up with the progress the eight Ford program grantees are making in their cities, schools, districts and communities. [LINK]

The inaugural lecture of the Vera List Center’s 2007-8 theme, “Agency,” will be delivered at the New School (N.Y.) September 25 by Benjamin R. Barber, professor of Civil Society, University of Maryland. Barber's talk, "Agency and Art in a Hyper-Consumerist Culture: The Agent as Artist, as Consumer and as Citizen," will explore "the impact of the commercialization and commodification of art and the subordination of art to utilitarian ends (such as happiness and wealth) through the lens of agency and freedom," says the List Center. "The term 'cultural property' suggests some of the issues to be addressed. The kind of freedom associated with consumers as citizens (their private vs. public liberty) and its impact on notions of agency." Barber's most recent book is "Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole" (2007. [LINK]

Participants in a Great Leap performance art workshop that teaches tools for community leadership and grassroots activism performed in L.A. on August 18, 2007. Collaboratory is a unique mentorship and collaborative program using art as a means to create social change and awareness. This is the fourth round of the program, which started in 2004, directed by performance artist Dan Kwong and co-facilitated by movement artist Young-Ae Park, both members of the multicultural performing-arts organization founded in 1978 by artist Nobuko Miyamoto. The August 18 performance by mentees at Farmlab/Under Spring Gallery in downtown L.A. followed eight weeks of workshops, site visits and community field trips. The Great Leap Web site has details and wonderful photos from past Collaboratory rounds. [LINK]

Children's drawings of genocide will be submitted in evidence to an International Criminal Court investigating crimes taking place in Darfur. Collecting testimonies from Darfuri refugees in eastern Chad, Waging Peace's Anna Schmidt asked children ages 6-18 to draw their strongest memory. Most drawings described attacks on their villages by Sudanese Government forces and allied Janjaweed militia. Many depict adult men being killed, women being shot, beaten and taken prisoner, babies being thrown on fires and Government of Sudan helicopters and planes bombing civilians. This directly contradicts the Government of Sudan's version of events over the last four years of bloodshed, says Waging Peace, a U.K.-based NGO. A Web post, 8/6/07, shows 20 annotated drawings, which the organization says "amount to a form of criminal evidence from silent witnesses." (Thanks, ActALIVE.) [LINK]

"Arts & Communities: Innovative Partnerships" is a new program of the San Francisco Arts Commission, we learn from the Animating Democracy August newsletter. The program will fund projects that represent innovative ways the arts are working with (and within) neighborhoods and communities, says ADI. It support artists and arts organizations in San Francisco as the lead partner collaborating with a non-arts community-based organization or group in S.F. Partners may choose to work with a neighborhood (as defined by geography) or with a community (as can be defined by culture, choice or special interest). The partnership will actively work together to develop appropriate and innovative ways to make visible a neighborhood/community's unique characteristics, social assets, issues and challenges. This process will result in an activity or work that engages the public. Deadline is 9/6/07. [LINK]

Today CAN brings you a story about ActALIVE, an international arts coalition of 300 members in 35 countries contending with the HIV/AIDS pandemic. "ActALIVE: Addressing HIV/AIDS-Related Grief and Healing Through Art" by Janet Feldman is a chapter from a new book, “The Art of Grief: The Use of Expressive Arts in a Grief Support Group,” edited by J. Earl Rogers (Routledge, June 2007), part of the publisher’s series on “Death, Dying and Bereavement.” The book examines the increasing use of art and expressive therapies in grief counseling. Feldman, based in Kenya, is founder/director of ActALIVE, a trained mediator, collage artist and social-change activist. She writes about the efforts of ActALIVE members in the International Peace Tiles Project, World AIDS Day, JUMP (Juveniles Using Media Power), One World Beat, "Time To Deliver: Community Action on AIDS," the National Community of Women Living with AIDS and lots more -- all around the world. [LINK]

This year's Creative Clusters conference, November 9-14, 2007, in locations across London, focuses on "The Creative Economy." Creative Clusters is an independent conference interested in what happens when technical innovation, artistic creativity and business entrepreneurship pool resources and band together into networks, clusters, quarters and other kinds of partnership. The 2007 conference examines the creative sector's importance to the economy and "how policy initiatives actually play out in the ground." Themes include: The Creative Quarter, Opportunity in the Creative Economy, World Creative Hubs and The Creative Crowd. There will be study-tours to leading initiatives across London: City Fringe, Brixton, Soho, Lewisham, the South Bank, Exhibition Road, Paddington, Hackney and more. Sixty speakers from around the world will present case studies and films, running workshops and taking part in moderated discussions. [LINK]

Save the Children UK has a wonderful cross-sector resource for teaching artists, available on the Web. Free and priced resources for teachers and youth workers on global children's rights are posted on the site. Examples include a downloadable "Children's Rights: A teacher's guide"; a step-by-step guide for children on developing and maintaining a school council; training exercises and handouts for workers training young people to undertake social research; an arts-based session plans for work with young people around issues of violence; a teaching pack that looks at children taking action in their communities; "Interviewing Children"; a cross-curricular resource pack on child labor and globalization; a teaching resource for developing an anti-bullying culture in primary schools; and citizenship and geography activities about working children. "Broken Dreams" is a downloadable assembly script that "looks at the experience of girls for whom a chance to go to school may be just a dream." [LINK]

Therapists, artists, educators and students will gather at a symposium hosted by the artist-driven Tamalpa Institute in Petaluma, Calif, November 1-5. 2007. The 11th Annual Expressive Arts Therapy Harvest Symposium 2007 is themed "A Fragile Bridge: Imagination and the Arts in Therapy, Education, Consulting and Social Change," asking the question: "How can the arts take us to the place of our deepest longing and still enable us to respond to the call of the world?" Workshops in movement, clowning, environments, installation, performance, music and theater will be taught by artists/educators Daria Halprin, Elizabeth McKim, Ellen and Steve Levine and more. Each evening will be given to community art and group performance. The symposium will close with a community dance/ritual, The Earth Run, led by dance pioneer Anna Halprin, now in her 87th year. [LINK]

"Artists, creative people and environmentalists are coming together to capture the imagination of the world for environmental change," says L.A.'s Al Nodal in the L.A. Times. Nodal is executive director of Farmlab, a think tank and civic-minded environmental art exhibition and cultural space downtown. Shana Ting Lipton's 8/9/07 story says Farmlab started as a temporary sounding board for green, community-oriented artistic initiatives. "It has since taken root and grown into a fertile launching pad for such projects, as well as an arts hub for weekly salons, eco-themed art shows, workshops and music events," says Lipton. Located in an industrial area near Chinatown, Farmlab sprouted from artist Lauren Bon's community environmental art project "Not a Cornfield" -- 1 million corn seeds planted in 32 temporarily appropriated acres of barren land. [LINK]

Some high-powered business and government figures will discuss the importance of creativity at the inaugural National Conference on the Creative Economy, October 24-25, 2007. They include executives from Fortune magazine, the Department of Homeland Security, Capital One, FEMA, the Coast Guard and Michigan's "CoolCities" initiative. Featured speakers are writers Alvin Toffler, Richard Florida and Thomas Friedman. They'll be answering the question: What does it mean to be creative and why is that attribute so important to businesses and communities alike? Specifically, they'll be talking about "attracting and retaining the creative class, creating a culture of creativity in the workplace to improve the bottom line, using diversity to promote creativity, harnessing the power of an aging workforce, boosting creativity in defense and homeland-security industries and improving communities and the economy through creative companies. "The conference takes place in Fairfax County, Va. [LINK]

Some interesting events surround the Tacoma Art Museum's showing of the traveling exhibition "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt," September 22-December 9, 2007. Gee’s Bend is a small rural community near Selma, Alabama. Descendants of slaves and sharecroppers, the women of Gee's Bend developed a distinctive quilting style, passing it down through at least six generations to the present. Gee's Bend first became known for its quilts during the Civil Rights Movement in the mid-1960s when the Freedom Quilting Bee was organized. The Tacoma exhibition includes "If These Quilts Could Talk: A Community Conversation," a community quilt and story sharing, September 23; a conversation with four Gee's Bend quilters, September 30; and "Deep South: Freedom Quilting and the Southern Civil Rights Movement in Perspective," a lecture by U.W. Tacoma Professor Michael Honey, November 10. [LINK]

"The theatrical process unlocks knowledge that already resides, but may be dormant in the community itself," says Headlines Theatre's David Diamond about their new project on climate change. "2º of adaptation: making choices while the climate changes" is a Forum Theatre project, says Diamond, "an opportunity for creative, community-based dialogue. The theatre is created and performed by community members who are living and/or are knowledgeable about the issues under investigation." But Headlines has moved away from August Boal's "binary language and model of 'oppressor/oppressed' and now approaches community-based cultural work from a systems-based perspective that a community is a complexly integrated, living organism. A project such as the one we are proposing functions from a philosophical understanding that a living community has both the ability and the responsibility to deal with issues in the community." [LINK]

A light-box art installation of 48 selected photographs from Shoot Nations 2007 was presented to the U.N. on August 10 for exhibition on International Youth Day. Shoot Nations describes itself as "a free global youth photography competition to get young people to document what matters to them, what's right and what's wrong in their world and how to make a difference." The 2007 contest received 1500 entries from young people in 85 countries around the world. Winners were announced July 30: Best Photo went to Maher, 16, from Egypt. Prizes include digital cameras, books, professional printing, music and maps. Beginning September 25 at the Tate Modern, an exhibition of selected photographs tours to London, Berlin, Ouagadougou and Delhi. A governance and photography workshop accompanies the exhibition. Shoot Nations is a collaboration between Plan-UK and Shoot Experience. View the light box photos online. (Thanks, ActALIVE.org) [LINK]

A small African aid group using the arts to start a successful grassroots campaign to abolish female circumcision in West Africa has been awarded the $1.5 million Hilton Prize. Nick Tattersall ,in a Reuters story (8/12/07), says the Senegal-based Tostan, which means "breakthrough" in the local Wolof language, won the world's largest humanitarian prize (past winners include Doctors Without Borders). Tostan, which has just 370 almost exclusively African staff, uses traditional song, poetry, theater and dance to educate some of the poorest villagers in Senegal and neighboring countries about development and human rights. American Molly Melching founded Tostan in 1991 after setting up a center in Dakar to educate street children using language and culture familiar to them -- the village songs, dance, stories and theater of rural Senegal. (Thanks, ActALIVE.org) [LINK]

The National Arts Journalism program has resurfaced after a hiatus, thanks to Pew Charitable Trusts, and its acting editor is ArtsJournal.com's Douglas McLennan. Initially conceived in 1994 primarily as a fellowship program for mid-career journalists, the new NAJP will be a national membership service organization, based in Seattle. "Journalism in general is in upheaval right now," says McLennan, "and arts and cultural journalism is being transformed underneath us. Arts journalism as we have known it in the past 50 years will look very different five years from now, and NAJP should be part of the conversation about how the arts will be covered in America." NAJP 's new work includes fellowships, conferences, seminars, research, networking; articulation of best practices and ethical standards; support for existing critics organizations; and being a clearing house for information about the field. [LINK]

Art education should be championed for its own sake, not because it improves math and reading test scores, says a new book from Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland of Harvard's Project Zero. Their forthcoming “Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education” (Teachers College Press) answers critics of their 2000 thesis that arts classes do not improve students’ overall academic performance. Robin Pogrebin, in the N.Y. Times (8/4/07), quotes Winner: “We feel we need to change the conversation about the arts in this country. These instrumental arguments are going to doom the arts to failure ... The arts need to be valued for their own intrinsic reasons. Let’s figure out what the arts really do teach.” The book, co-authored Shirley Veenema and Kimberly Sheridan, is based on a numerous arts-classroom studies. [LINK]

Judith Tannenbaum has an essay on American for the Arts' site about the professional training of teaching artists. "Preserving the Important Qualities of the Teaching Artist Profession, While Still Moving Ahead with Its Professionalization" probes "ways in which professionalization of the field strengthens or harms this work that we love." She asks, "What do we want not to lose as teaching artistry becomes a more formal field?" and answers, in part: the vision and practice of cultural democracy, community arts work done in places other than formal institutions, individual values and style, the learning that can only happen through trial and error and the understanding that teaching artists are artists. "As we serve other goals, I don’t want to lose the journey into the unknown that art-making often demands--of me or of the students." [LINK]

"A Holtville Night's Dream" tells the story of farmworkers in California's Imperial Valley, says a BBC report on Cornerstone Institute's summer production. You can listen on the Web to correspondent Marcos Najera 's story for the BBC's "The World." Each summer, L.A.'s Cornerstone Theater Company offers training in community-based theater, this year the little town of Holtville, "Carrot Capitol of the World," 220 miles SE of L.A., 16 miles miles from Mexico. There students collaborated with community members on "A Midsummer Night's Dream," adapted to local concerns: the fear that Holtville might be dying. Says one community actor: "Now that we have all these special people that came and did this play, that means that Holtville is not olvidado" (forgotten). Learn more on Cornerstone Theater's Web site. (Thanks, Judith Tannenbaum.) [LINK]

Today CAN brings you the story of a large-scale, enduring example of grassroots cultural policy in the metropolis of Buenos Aires, Argentina. New York theater artist Ruth Juliet Wikler-Luker spent the past year in Buenos Aires, and she returns with the tale of the Programa Cultural en Barrios. Now it in 23rd year, she says, it's "a city program that promotes the arts, culture and popular participation on the neighborhood level. In the aftermath of the last military dictatorship, its network of neighborhood-based cultural centers and free arts workshops gave the citizens of Buenos Aires an important outlet for self-expression. Since 2002, its support of community theater groups has helped to sustain a cultural phenomenon that emerged out of neighborhood-level activism after the 2001 Argentine economic crisis." Her story explores the relationship between community arts, government and society in contemporary Argentina. [LINK]

Here comes Blues Week in the Mississippi Delta, September 8-15, 2007, sponsored by Mississippi Action for Community Education. Events in Greenville, Miss., kick off with the First Annual Blues in the School Showcase featuring the award-winning youth blues band out of Tunica, Miss., Homemade Jamz, and readings by 17-year-old poets T. Clarice and Cornelius Miller, winners of the First Annual Writing Competition for Young Blues Artists. Also planned are a Mayor’s Blues Reception, a Blues Film Festival, a Symphony Tribute to the Blues, a Delta Dialogue, an invitational Delta Blues Gala and the Little Wynn Parade. The jewel in the crown is the 30th Annual Delta Blues and Heritage Festival, September 15, with headliners the O'Jays, Bobby Rush and the North Mississippi Allstars and more. Hear some blues on the Festival Web site. [LINK]

Philadelphia's Village of Arts & Humanities will honor the city's Fairhill-Hartranft community with a exhibition titled "Evoking Spirit, Embracing Memory," September 14-October 22, 2007. Village Director Kumani Grantt describes Fairhill-Hartranft as "a community rich in neighborhood memory, but often maligned in the media." The exhibition, created with the community and the planning team of Joyce Scott Homer Jackson and Linda Goss, honors "12 icons and unsung heroes who have passed away," like Arthur Hall, founder of Ile Ife Black Humanitarian Center; Elner Dawkins, founder of Fairhill Housing Assn., and James "Big Man" Maxton, mosaic artist at the Village. It also celebrates five historical places in the community: Cookman United Methodist Church, Don's Doo Shop, Fairhill Burial Ground, the Ile Ife Center and the Uptown Theater. There are artist workshops, lectures and tours through the run of the exhibit. [LINK]

The cross-sector value of creativity is the topic of a special forum at the Alliance of Artists Communities conference, November 7-10, 2007, in Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, Md. The forum, "Freedom to Create" will be presented at the National Press Club by AAC and The MacDowell Colony, featuring NEA Chair Dana Gioia and artist Ann Hamilton. They will address creativity as a catalyst for change and a fundamental value of the U.S. "democratic and cultural identity." They'll also explore what business, education and other societal segments can learn from the arts and creative communities about harnessing experimentation and innovation. Choreographer Liz Lerman is keynote speaker at the conference, which is themed "Creativity in Context." Session highlights include: Diversity in Practice, Public Sector Advocacy, Social Activism in Art-Making, Governance as Leadership and more [LINK]

The Business Committee for the Arts will bring artists and business professionals together in New York for the Fifth Annual Forum for Ideas, September 20, 2007. Participants will explore new ideas for integrating business and the arts, says Emily Young, BCA director of programs. Speakers are Ginny B. Baxter, senior manager of Workplace Dynamics at Herman Miller Inc.; inventor Chuck Hoberman who fuses art, architecture and engineering in Transformable Structures; Jill Medvedow, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, who repositioned the Institute as a contemporary art destination and spearheaded the campaign for a new museum on Boston’s waterfront. Annie Bergen, broadcaster for Bloomberg Radio and host on host, will moderate. The forum, a collaboration with Arts & Business Council of New York, is sponsored by Morgan Stanley and the Herman Miller Foundation. [LINK]

Community dancers will join professionals at Settlement Quarry in Stonington, Maine, August 10-12, 2007, for "Quarryography," a dance piece involving a quarry excavator. Created by choreographer Alison Chase (founding director of Pilobolus) and puppeteer Mia Kanazawa, "Quarryography" is a collaboration between Opera House Arts and Island Heritage Trust featuring Cableman, a 25-foot-tall puppet; Deer Isle excavator operator Rick Weed; Pilobolus dancer Matt Kent and Wendee Rogerson of the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company; "preprofessional" and community dancers; and the Rock and Steel pan band. Participants in a May 26 workshop at Stonington Opera House helped create the sculptural and movement techniques of the spectacle. Opera House Arts' Web site has pictures from last year's sneak preview of this work in progress. [LINK]

The National Powwow at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., set for August 10-12, 2007, will be accessible via a live Webcast. The Powwow will be heard over AIROS, the Internet Native Radio Network operated by Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) based in Lincoln, Nebr. The radio hosts for this year's Powwow include Harlan McKosato (Sac & Fox/Ioway) from Native America Calling, Frank Blythe (Cherokee/Dakota) of NAPT and Camille Lacapa (Ojibwe/Hopi-Tewa) from Native Voice One. The Powwow includes exhibitions, dance and drum competitions, a Code Talker presentation, comedy, Smoke and War Dances and more. In addition, the Webcast will feature personal interviews with singers, dancers and powwow attendees. See the Webcast schedule and Powwow links on the AIROS site. [LINK]