Kua'aina Associates

Call for Indigenous San Francisco based Performance Artists: Dance, Theater and Music - Summer 2019 Artists Professional Development Cohort Project For more inf...o: [email protected] Kua`aina Associates in partnership with the San Francisco Art Commission invites San Francisco based indigenous artists & art/culture organizations/groups: American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Indigenous North and South America - to join this summer cohort. Limited enrollment! Our Mission is to assist SF based Indigenous Artists prepare to submit a proposal for the SFAC October/November grant application deadlines. What Kind of Artists: Performance Arts. Includes Artists working in traditional and contemporary formats. It can include multi-disciplinary projects as long as the primary genre is dance, music and theater.

Free and Open to the Public - Happening during the weekend of the Santa Fe Indian Market

Kua`aina's Co-founders, Carolyn Kuali`i and Moana Swan and an amazing artistic team, which included Isami Ching (curator) and China Ching (media) produced and curated this exhibit - "The Lifework and Collective Song of Sam Kaha`i Kaai, Naue Ka Hona (The earth shakes) - E ala mai ia Kihanuilulumoku (Kihanuilulumoku awakens)". The title of the exhibit refers to Kihanuilülümoku, the god of earthquakes prior to the arrival of Pele and her family, was a relative of Kihawahine the... mo`o goddess of Maui. The awakening of Kihanuilülümoku represents the growing awareness of traditional Hawaiian thought. This exhibit and the ancillary activities was in collaboration with the Maui Arts & Cultural Center (MACC). The exhibit opened for public showing at the MACC’s Schaefer International Gallery in 2006 with the grant support from the Atherton Family Foundation, Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation, Hawai`i Tourism Authority/Maui County Product Enrichment Program and Papa Ola Lokahi. See more

We am proud to announce Ancestral Ink: A Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions produced by Kua’aina Associates and Broken Boxes hosted and supported by Santa Fe Art Institute! This will be the first time anything like this has ever taken place during Indian Market. We will be sharing much more information leading up to the event so please stay tuned.

Weavers...the keepers of indigenous knowledge

Presenters: L Frank Manriquez (Tongva-Acjachemen) Sage T LaPena (Nomtipom Wintu) Heidi Harper Lucero (Acjachemen - Mutsun Ohlone) Tiffany Adams (Chemehuevi, Konkow, Nissan) Cece Carpio (Filipina) and I will be the MC. Presented by Kua`aina Associates in Partnership with the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco, the Friends of the Library and the San Francisco Library.

SAVE the DATE...Nov. 9 2 to 4pm at the San Francisco Main Library. Ancestral Ink will feature a panel of five female Indigenous knowledge keepers who will share the history, tradition and revitalization of tattoo practices among indigenous women and how they exist apart from societal tattoo trends that we see today. Video segments from Skindigenous - a television documentary series exploring indigenous tattooing traditions around the world - will be shown during the forum. Th...is program is a partnership with the San Francisco Art Commission American Indian Initiative and the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco in collaboration with Kua`aina Associates. https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1038295501 See more

Continuous Thread behind the scenes: The reason I included the banners in the exhibit was to acknowledge the diversity of the Native American Bay Area community... who represents the different indigenous cultural regions of the Lower 48 and Alaska. It was important that The exhibit first and foremost acknowledged the Ohlone. With that in mind, I reached out to Linda Yamane - Ohlone basketweaver for permission to use one of her basket designs. The Apache & Ojibway designs came from the de Young Museum’s textile collection; with the help of a Choctaw tribal member, I was able to get permission use from the Choctaw nation’s Wahzhazhe Cultural Center for motif use, the Alaskan motif was from Marjorie Tahbone - Inupiaq tattoo design. I worked with graphic artist Tima Link (Chumash) who prepared the textile designs for printing on scrim. The scrim was printed by Blow Up Labs in San Francisco. See more

Registration is now open for this event, visit SFAI.org/ancestral-ink!