Plan your Visit

March 21 - Multicultural Drumming and Dance Celebration

Drumming and dancing celebrating the drum and its central role in indigenous cultures.

Alaska Native Heritage Center
Saturday, March 21, 2009   Schedule here
Flyer here

Admission $1.00

 America Indigena ~ Aztec

Candida Rose  ~ Cape Verdean singer from New Bedford MA

Crow Creek Pipes and Drums - Celtic

Tomadachi Taiko - Japanese

Ke Kia'i A O Hula- Hawaiian

Alaska Native Dance Performances

ECHO Performing Arts Project ~The Way to the Heart- Changing Food, Foodways and Culture

The 2009 ECHO Performing Arts Festival is built around the topic of food as

survival, community builder, cultural marker, and source of comfort. The

script considers the ways our cultures and foodways have changed over

time, and the effects those changes have had on our lives.

The ECHO Performing Arts Festival 2009 features Native and non-Native

artists representing the cultures of the ECHO partner regions of Alaska,

Hawai`i, Mississippi and Massachusetts. Under the direction of Tau Dance

Theater of Honolulu, Hawai`i, the artists have created a performance piece

infused with the oral tradition, dance and music of all of their regions. The

Way to the Heart: Changing Food, Foodways and Culture honors the traditional

and contemporary uses of food as they relate to survival, community

building, culture, and comfort, and the effects that changes have had on

people’s lives. Performed in schools and cultural centers throughout the

ECHO partner regions and for national audiences at the National Museum

of the American Indian in Washington, DC and New York City, this program

reaches thousands of students and community members.

Candida Rose

Crow Creek Pipes and Drums

Taiko Drummers