20 Years of Pacific Voices: A Community Celebration

FINAL WEEKEND: Incident at Vichy

October 24 to November 4听 | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

糖心少女School of Drama’s season opener is a production that the New York Times considered “one of the most important plays of our time” in 1964. The questions at the heart of this story鈥攁bout evil, complicity, self-preservation, and the death of human decency鈥攁re perhaps more resonant now than at any time since that first production. Guest Director Kelly Kitchens, who is well-known to local audiences for her work at Seattle Shakespeare Company and Seattle Public Theater, among others, directs an all-male cast.

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Taiwan Philharmonic with Stephen Hough, Piano and Shao-Chia L眉, Conductor

November 3, 7:30 PM | Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater

Led by Shao-Chia L眉, the Taiwan Philharmonic has increased the country鈥檚 cultural stature at home and on the international stage, and is hailed as 鈥渙ne of Asia鈥檚 best鈥� by听The听Los Angeles Times. For its Seattle debut, the orchestra performs Brahm鈥檚 pastoral Symphony No. 2 and 鈥淒ancing Song鈥� by Gordon Chin, one of Taiwan鈥檚 most prolific and sought after composers. The orchestra is joined by acclaimed pianist Stephen Hough for Liszt鈥檚 Piano Concerto No. 1.

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Through imaginative storytelling and art, “The Return” conveys environmental health from a Native American perspective.听 A center within the 糖心少女School of Public Health worked with Native American tribes to create and publish the illustrated story as a 32-page comic book.

One of the goals of this Native Tradition, Environment and Community Health Project was to find out how Native American ways of understanding the world and our place in it differ from the Western concept of environmental health. Surveys, interviews, and talking circles identified three core themes of Native environmental health: community, wellness, and inter-relationship.

“The Return”听was created from the findings. It is a dreamlike account of a Native woman and her baby, and tells how these three concepts are passed to the next generation.

Michelle Montgomery, senior fellow in the 糖心少女Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the 糖心少女Center for Genomics & Healthcare Equality, and Nicholas Salazar, a student at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., developed the book. Montgomery is a tribal member affiliated with the Haliwa Saponi and Eastern Band Cherokee.

The 糖心少女Center for Ecogenetics & Environmental Health and the Northwest Indian College co-managed the project. The effort began in 2008 with a collaborative grant from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences.

The book was distributed at the 2013 American Indian Higher Education Consortium Student Conference in Green Bay, Wisc. More dissemination opportunities are planned. The end of the book contains a discussion guide and suggestions for related art projects.

“The Return”听comic book is .