Virtual Ganondagan Summer Experience
*The event has already taken place on this date: Thu, 07/30/2020
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Not to be daunted by the coronavirus-necessitated cancelation of its Indigenous Music & Arts Festival, Friends of Ganondagan has announced its first “Virtual Ganondagan Summer Experience” starting July 24, including the dates of the originally scheduled festival, all filmed outdoors at Ganondagan State Historic Site’s natural world.
Programming will be accessed through a combination of Facebook Live and YouTube. On
Friday, July 24, the popular Bill Crouse (Seneca) and the Allegany River Dancers will be performing Iroquois Social Dancing in traditional regalia outdoors in front of the Bark Longhouse, viewable on Ganondagan’s Facebook Live at 11 am.
During the weekend of July 25-26 and beyond—and viewable/sharable on YouTube—will be:
- Storyteller Perry Ground (Onondaga) telling traditional water being stories, filmed at
Ganondagan’s picturesque Trout Brook - Lacrosse player/stickmaker William (“Snooky”) Brooks (Seneca) joined by Ganondagan Site Manager Peter Jemison to discuss lacrosse stick-making, filmed in Ganondagan’s lush woods
- Artisan Ronnie Reitter ( Seneca) demonstrating traditional cornhusk doll-making and sharing stories, filmed at the Three Sisters Garden
- Artisan Bill Crouse (Seneca) demonstrating water drum and gustoweh (Haudenosaunee men’s traditional headdress) making
All programming is free. For more information, emailinfo@ganondagan.org. Virtual programming is made possible by funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.
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