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Find out about UCSD's 2012 California Native American Day celebration with the theme, "Wellness and Healing: Family and Community".
California Native American Day was established as an official state holiday in 1998. Today, all California schools recognize the fourth Friday in September as the official Native American holiday.
UCSD's California Native American Day Celebration Committee promotes events to enhance the relationship between San Diego's tribal communities and UCSD students, staff, and faculty. All events are free and open to the public.
Date: Friday, Sept. 28
Time: noon–2 p.m. (lunch/ program noon–1 p.m., workshop 1–2 p.m.)
Location: International Center (map)
Contact: Melanie Miley, (858) 822-3808
Abel Silvas will combine comedy, storytelling and mime, offering an interpretation of Native American history and culture from past to present at UC San Diego’s Early Childhood Education Center.
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 3
Time: 9–10:30 a.m., 4 performances on the half hour.
Location: Early Childhood Education Center (map)
Contact: Anna Bascom, (858) 246-0927
Hosted by NASA
Date: Friday, Oct. 5
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Cross Cultural Center (map)
Contact: Shunya Wade
Hosted by Cross Cultural Center
Title: "In The Light of Reverence"
Date: Thursday, Oct 18
Time: Noon–2 p.m.
Location: Cross Cultural Center (map)
Contact: Joseph Ramirez, (858) 534-9689
Lecture: Balancing Mind, Heart, Body, and Spirit for Family and Community Healing
Keynote speaker: Cecelia Firethunder: Former president, Oglala Sioux & Tribe, founding board member, Native Wellness Institute Board of Women Empowering Women for Indian Nations, President, Oglala Lakota Nation Educational Coalition, Vice-chair, Little Wound School-Kyle, SD, and facilitator/trainer
Date: Thursday, Nov. 1
Time: Noon–4 p.m.
Location: Price Center East, FORUM, 4th floor (map)
Contact: Dina Apple
Hosted by Office of Graduate Studies (OGS)
Date: Monday, Nov. 5
Time: 5–7 p.m.
Location: Vice Chancellor's Complex, Room 111A (map)
Contact: Veronica Henson-Phillips
Curated by UC San Diego undergraduate and graduate students, this art show will display historic and contemporary Native American visual stories drawn in a distinctive American Indian style.
Date: Dec. 15–May 28
Location: San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park
Entrees accepted March 1 – April 23, 2013
Award presentation: At the 3rd Annual UCSD Powwow, May 2013
Application materials (available February 2013): http://eaop.ucsd.edu/essays/index.html
Contact: Whitney Baugher
Date: 1st or 3rd weekend in May, check back for updates
Announce Essay Contest winners
Alternative Accounts: Plains Indians Ledger Art from the Nineteenth Century to Now December 15th, 2012 (opening) through March 17, 2013 San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park.
