Storytelling with Andrea Perkins

Join Open Scene, a youth media arts project, as we kick off our next artist workshop weekend with Native storyteller, Andrea Perkins!

Bio for Artist: An award winning writer, Andrea learned traditional storytelling and Northwest Indigenous art from her mother and grandmother. Andrea has used this knowledge to share stories on issues facing Indigenous communities with audiences across the country. <> Friday, March 10th 6-8pm - Andrea will give an artist talk and demonstration on Native oral traditions and facilitate discussion on the importance of oral traditions and how writing has helped share and create new styles of Indigenous storytelling and how Open Scene might begin to write about and create our own.

Sunday, March 12th 2-4pm - Open scene stakeholders and artists will showcase art created with Andrea and open up and lead the IMC in arts-based dialogue, merging diverse ways of storytelling and art making