The second Origins Festival is coming to London for two packed weeks this summer!
The Festival opens on June 28th with an inspirational night of ceremony, art and music, featuring the great Maori poet Robert Sullivan, Métis theatre-maker Marie Clements, Inuit throat-singers, and the chance to enjoy a delicious Polynesian feast!
At Rich Mix on Saturday 2nd July, we have the Origins Concert, with an amazing line-up of First Nations music, from the traditional to the contemporary; including Grammy-nominated Native American flautist Kelvin Mockingbird, the fabulous Maori-Scots fusion band Pacific Curls, Inuit sensation Simon Lynge, Maori funk star Bella Kalolo and many more.
Theatre includes the return of Lakota storyteller Robert Greygrass in his virtuosic solo piece "Walking on Turtle Island"; and Australian Aboriginal Elder Noel Tovey, the director of the indigenous welcome at the Sydney Olympics, in the dark but uplifting drama "Little Black Bastard". There`s lighter fare from Native American comic Chuquai Billy in "No Reservations Required!", plus a great programme of films, including the award-winning "Samson and Delilah", and the urgent documentary "Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change".
Origins is a green Festival, and much of our work is outdoors and free. On Sunday July 3rd, there`s music, games and ceremony on Hampstead Heath, when we join forces with the City of London Festival for an Antipodean Family Day.
If all that wasn`t enough, there are exhibitions at Rich Mix and the October Gallery, talks, debates, and a chance to learn the haka!
|
|
More information on Origins: Festival of First Nations (2011)
|
|
|
|
|