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Thursday, October 6 | 6:00-7:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\nConversation on Cultural Stewardship with Elmira Center for Cultural Advancement<\/b>
\nIn collaboration with Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education and The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes<\/p>\n
Location: The Rockwell Museum This conversation will feature Christa Heyward, Executive Director of the Elmira Center for Cultural Advancement (https:\/\/www.eccany.org\/<\/a>), Susan Knox, local restaurateur, and Will Wickham, Musical Director of the Cantata Singers . Listen to panelists share about their work documenting and preserving African American foodways, work and oral history in Elmira, NY.<\/p>\n About the panelists:<\/p>\n Christa Heyward <\/b>is a native of Pine City with a passion for community development. She brings her experience in project management, building connections, and entrepreneurial mindset to the mission of Elmira Center for Cultural Advancement (ECCA). As the director of ECCA, Christa has conducted a oral history interviews with Elmira\u2019s African American Elders.<\/p>\n Susan Knox<\/b> is an Elmira-based restaurateur, master pastry chef, and a co-owner along with her son of the newly-opened WMC North located on Water St. in Elmira. Sue\u2019s family has for multiple generations worked in food service as head chefs and caters at local restaurants, including the Mark Twain Hotel, Sullivan Park, Elmira Country Club, Economic Opportunity Program, and more.<\/p>\n Will Wickham <\/b>is a music teacher and composer who currently works as an Adjunct Professor of Music at Corning Community College and, as the result of a Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Grant, is in the early weeks of a two-year Composer in Residence program with the Cantata Singers, an Elmira based community choral ensemble. Wickham is proud to have been born and raised on Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes wine region, and has significant experience as a fruit grower and winemaker. He has also worked extensively in area theater with experience in music direction, stage direction, set design and construction, acting, and playing in pit bands. The recent Covid pandemic offered the opportunity to learn the use of video and audio editing software which has led to the addition of media production skills to his resume.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Conversation on Cultural Stewardship: Healing from the Thomas Indian School<\/b> Location: Stanley \u201cSully\u201d Huff Heritage Center, 12857 Route 438, Irving, New York 14081 This program focuses on the ongoing work of Native American communities in Western New York to document, remember and heal from the atrocities of the Thomas Indian School, a boarding school for Native youth on the Cattaraugus Territory near Irving, NY run by Presbyterian missionaries. This evening will be lead by artists, scholars and tradition bearers of the On\u00f6dowa\u2019ga:\u2019 (Seneca) Nation, including artists Jocelyn Jones<\/a> and Hayden Haynes, Dr. Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (SUNY-Buffalo), Dr. Joe Stahlman (Seneca-Iroquois National\u00a0Museum-On\u00f6hsagw\u00eb:de\u2018 Culture Center), Aedzaniyo Seneca, and Lucy Ramirez (President of the Thomas Indian School Alumni).<\/p>\n About the panelists:<\/p>\n Hayden Haynes<\/strong> (On\u00f6dowa\u2019ga:\u2019 \u2013 Deer Clan) is an active artist and the Museum Manager at the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum in Allegany Territory. This museum is Native-owned and operated by Haudenosaunee people. Haynes has spent many years refining his antler carving work, an art form that has been practiced for centuries across the world. He recently created a series of photographs in collaboration with model Jocelyn Jones to spread awareness via social media about the Thomas Indian School (TIS). She wears Haynes\u2019 carved antler earrings in the photographs.<\/p>\n Dr. Alyssa Mt. Pleasant<\/b> is an expert in Native American and Indigenous studies. She is currently Assistant Professor of Native American Studies in the Department of Africana and American Studies at SUNY Buffalo. Mt. Pleasant\u2019s scholarship focuses on Haudenosaunee history during the 18th and 19th centuries. Her broader teaching and research interests include early American history; American Indian social and intellectual histories; settler colonialism, especially as it relates to legal and educational systems; conceptualizations of space, place and land tenure in Indian Country; and public history. Throughout her career, Mt. Pleasant has worked to build programs in Native American studies and raise awareness of the need for the U.S. education system to share more information about American Indian histories, cultures and presence. She is a descendant of the Tuscarora Nation, one of the six Haudenosaunee nations.<\/p>\n Dr. Joe\u00a0Stahlman<\/b>\u00a0is the Director of Seneca Nation\u2019s Seneca-Iroquois National\u00a0Museum-On\u00f6hsagw\u00eb:de\u2018 Culture Center. Joe is a scholar and researcher of Tuscarora descent. He has over 20 years of research experience working with First Peoples. His research focuses on culture and history, as well as ongoing socio-economic and health & wellness related endeavors with Native communities. He takes an active role in addressing the space Native peoples occupy in North American archaeology and cultural resource management. He regularly talks on the need to promote equity among all peoples in North American society through a number of reconciliatory processes which are inclusive for all and empowers people to express agency through creative and intellectual endeavors.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Conversation on Cultural Stewardship with Islamic Association of the Finger Lakes<\/b> Location: The Rockwell Museum This conversation will feature M. Zaman Marwat, Imam\/Director of the Islamic Association of the Finger Lakes (IAFL), Najeeb Rehman, Member of the IAFL Council of Trustees, and other members of the Islamic Association of the Finger Lakes.\u00a0IAFL serves the Muslim community of the greater Finger Lakes region within the Southern Tier in NY state, including, but not limited to, Horseheads, Big Flats, Corning, Elmira and other areas. IAFL seeks to provide an amiable atmosphere to the Muslims of the area for regular prayers, and other activities associated with the Muslim calendar. IAFL also seeks to build relationships with communities of other faiths in the Finger Lakes region.<\/p>\n (https:\/\/www.iaflcenter.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n This program was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or other funders listed here.\u00a0Additional funding for this project comes from\u00a0Corning Incorporated Foundation, and\u00a0Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, Inc.\u00a0We are grateful to our Corning\/Elmira local colleagues Amy Ruza, Mary Mix, and T.C. Owens.\u00a0We want to acknowledge the support of Ellen McHale and\u00a0New York Folklore<\/a>,\u00a0The Rockwell Museum<\/a>, and\u00a0The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Local Learning is funded in part by a Humanities New York SHARP Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal American Rescue Plan Act. Local Learning\u2019s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Join us for a series of conversations about how to identify, protect, and enhance our important traditions, ways of life, cherished places, and vital relationships to each other and the wider world. Culture creates and strengthens communities. Understanding the complexity and power of culture gives communities agency. 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Thursday, October 20 | 6:00 – 7:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n
\nIn collaboration with Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education and The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes<\/p>\n
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Wednesday, November 9 | 5:30-7:00 pm<\/b><\/p>\n
\nIn collaboration with Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education and The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes<\/p>\n
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