The Salish Sea Butoh Festival comes to Port Townsend this summer
From International Examiner (by Roxanne Ray) – The Salish Sea International Butoh Festival’s second year celebrates the Japanese dance form on the Olympic Peninsula.
From Indian Country Today (by Carina Dominguez) – Among nine Indigenous-made pieces selected for the Sundance Film Festival, Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan’s film “The Headhunter’s Daughter” received the Short Film Grand Jury Prize.
From Discover Nikkei (by Elaine Ikoma Ko) – After a successful media career, Frank Abe has produced acclaimed literary and film works on resistance to Japanese American incarceration — a living legacy more relevant than ever today.
Japanese American Literature Traces Changing Relationships between Nikkei and African Americans Over Time
From Densho (by Brian Niiya and Greg Robinson) – A new essay details research on the history of depictions of African Americans in Japanese American literature.
From Garfield to Black Panther: Nnedi Okorafor on the Power of Comics
From Lithub (by Nnedi Okorafor) – “My path to writing the big black cat started with a fat orange cat.” Read Nnedi Okorafor’s powerful foreword to a new collection of Marvel’s Black Panther stories.
From Emergence Magazine – As Indigenous languages struggle to survive, this six-part podcast series investigates four vulnerable languages in California and the communities working to revitalize them.
From Crosscut (by Jasmine Mahmoud) – A retrospective on Kabby Mitchell, the first Black dancer in the Pacific Northwest Ballet and co-founder of the Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center.
On the 21st-Century Renaissance of Native American Fiction
From Lithub (by Erika Wurth) – Indigenous writers Erika Wurth and Margaret Verble discuss today’s proliferation of Native writing and what it means to be part of it.
