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Nakasako has
worked in many facets of filmmaking. He
has worked in the Southeast Asian community
in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco
for several years, training at-risk refugee
teenagers in video production. He was
also one of the producers of School Colors,
a documentary about the 1994 Class at
Berkeley High School. He produced and
co-directed a.k.a. Don Bonus a portrait
of a Cambodian family shredded by the
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James
Luna is
a Luiseno Indian who resides on the La
Jolla Indian Reservation. Luna was born
February 9, 1950. He holds a BFA from
the University of California, Irvine and
a MS in Counseling from San Diego State
University. Luna feels that "art work
in the media of performance and installation
offers an opportunity like no other for
Indian people to express themselves without
compromise in traditional art forms of
ceremony, dance, oral traditions and contemporary
thought. Within these non-traditional
spaces one can use a variety of media
such as objects, sounds, video, slides,
so that there is no limit in how and what
is expressed." James Luna will co-teach
the Native Storytelling workshop with
Greg Sarris. |
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| Joanna
Haigood's work
is centered on making dances that use
natural architectural and cultural environments
as points of departure for movement and
narrative exploration. Artistic Director
and choreographer, co-founded ZACCHO Dance
Theatre in 1980. Her work also integrates
aerial choreography, offering audiences
and performers new perspectives of the
places and situations they inhabit. |
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Greg
Sarris
has published several books, including
the widely anthologized collection of
essays, Keeping Slug Woman Alive; A Holistic
Approach to American Indian Texts, and
Grand Avenue, an award-winning collection
of short stories which was adapted for
an HBO mini-series of the same name. Greg
has written plays for Pieces of the Quilt,
Intersection Theatre, and the Mark Taper
Forum. A new play entitled Mission Indians
ran in February 2002 at the Intersection
Theatre in San Francisco. He is also serving
his fifth elected term as Chairman of
his tribe, the Federated Indians of the
Graton Rancheria, formerly known as the
Federated Coast Miwok. Greg Sarris will
co-teach the Native Storytelling workshop
with James Luna. |
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