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October 04, 2006
Brown Bag Lecture: "'Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew: Native Humor and its Healing Powers"
Date: 10/10/2006; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: Room 2022, 202 South Thayer Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
Host Department: Institute for the Humanities
Drew Hayden Taylor, Ojibway Canadian comic playwright
Artists at Work Series
One of Canada's first Native scriptwriters, Drew Hayden Taylor is a writer in many genres and is well known for his plays about Native people. His published plays include: Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock/ Education is our Right (which won the Chalmers Canadian Play Award for Best Play for Young Audiences), The Bootlegger Blues (which won the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for Best Drama), and its sequels, The Baby Blues (which won first prize at the University of Alaska Anchorage Native Playwriting Contest), and The Buz’Gem Blues, which recently ran in Los Angeles. He has written, directed, or worked on approximately 17 film and video documentaries about Native issues. More recently, Drew has been seen directing a documentary on Native humour titled, Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and researching a new one on Native erotica.
Free and open to the public.
Contact Information
Doretha Coval
dcoval@umich.edu
734 936 3518
Posted by swortman at October 4, 2006 08:13 AM