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Indigenous Equinox Gatherings NYC
Indigenous Equinox Gatherings NYC
Starting the fall season in a good way
September 17 and 18, NYU and various locations around NYC
Join Center CIRCL and community partners on September 17 and 18 for two days of activations for Indigenous presence and continuity in New York City. There will be film screenings, workshops, panels, and performances at NYU Washington Square Campus and other sites across the city. This event series also coincides with the fall equinox. The length of day and night are in balance in the days leading up to and after the autumnal equinox.
These gatherings inaugurate Center CIRCL’s biennial theme: This City is So Indigenous. They are a chance for students, community members, artists and educators to meet again in New York City, starting a new season of study, research, struggle, and relation. Featuring autonomous sessions planned by different Indigenous groups and organizations, this two-day event will nourish the connections that will carry us through the months and years ahead.
All events are free and open to the public. Registration for each event is required; spots are limited. Photo ID and registration for each event is required for access to NYU buildings.
University professors are encouraged to assign undergraduate and graduate students in relevant coursework to register and attend.
Schedule Highlights
September 17
Evening screening and discussion of Singing Back the Buffalo, a film by Tasha Hubbard
Daytime panel and performances curated by Relative Arts and First Nations Performing Arts
Screenings of films by Indigenous students
September 18
Morning visit with Minetta Creek and speculative grammars workshop with Joseph Pierce [co-created with Jade Nixon, Postdoctoral Fellow with The Visiting Lab and Center CIRCL]
Afternoon Panel with Lenape Citizens and Center CIRCL Fellows on the Biennial Theme, This City is So Indigenous
Afternoon workshop with filmmaker Tasha Hubbard
Afternoon workshop for educators co-hosted with the Billion Oysters Project
Evening Kinstellatory Fire hosted by Emily Johnson/Catalyst + Kai Recollet with Lenape storytellers
Confirmed participating organizations, institutions, and community partners
Relative Arts, First Nations Performing Arts, Emily Johnson/Catalyst, American IndiBillion Oyster Project, Poets House, American Natural History Museum
About Center CIRCL
The purpose of the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands (Center CIRCL) is to grow the practice, theory, and reach of Indigenous Studies and Indigenous research at New York University, and beyond. Because research can have an important role in Indigenous communities’ efforts towards justice and creating the futures they desire, Center CIRCL is dedicated to supporting communities to address their research needs. The Center is designed to be an institutional home-base for all scholars who engage in Indigenous Studies and work alongside Indigenous communities. Center CIRCL also seeks to develop pathways for Lenape scholars, teachers, artists, and writers to spend time in their work and practice in their homelands here in New York City.
About the Biennial Theme: This City is So Indigenous
Our 2025-2027 Biennial Theme, This City is So Indigenous, attends to the diversity of Indigeneites in New York, and to the Lenape communities here and in diaspora–their histories and their ongoing presence and futures. The Biennial Theme unifies Center CIRCL events, and also the Center CIRCL Fellows initiative. Center CIRCL Fellows’ research and creative practice will result in knowledge mobilization–including publication, installation or performance–on the Indigeneities that are so uniquely New York City.
Media Contact
Tickets and information at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-equinox-gatherings-nyc-tickets-1471487311159?aff=oddtdtcreator
Contact: Leonora Zoninsein and Jade Nixon
CenterCIRCL@nyu.edu
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