SARATOGA SPRINGS —Kanatsiohareke celebrates its 30th anniversary at the Zankel Music Center on the campus of Skidmore College Saturday, Nov. 4.
A variety of performances will commence on the Zankel stage starting around 5:30/6 p.m., performers include: storytelling by Kay “Ionataiewas” Olan, music by Daygot Leeyos Edwards, Eric Marczek (flute), Jimmy Wolf Band, and a performance from the Haudenosaunee Dancers with Sherri Hopper. This event is organized by the Indigenization and Decolonization Collaborative.
The anniversary marks three decades since the founding of its sustainable culture in Fonda, N.Y. The community, founded in 1993, was the first return of the Rotinonhsionni people to the Mohawk Valley, their original homeland, and has since become a gathering place for the community to reground itself in its culture, teachings, and language.
Programming is part of the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS) at Skidmore College.
Events will kick off at 2 p.m. with the Opening Address delivered by Mohawk elder Tom “Sakokwenionkwas” Porter, founder of Kanatsiohareke, followed by a work-in-progress screening of Kanatsiohareke’s film project with media-maker Raienkonnis Edwards (funded by MDOCS Co-Creation Initiative and Creatives Rebuild NY) and film shorts by Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore of The Aunties Dandelion.
