Indigenous Performance Productions

Help us manifest our new storytelling project:  "The Fox and the Butterfly", a project featuring storytelling from Indigenous Youth.

We are seeking your support to help fund the residency to develop this project including:  five months of storytelling workshops for self-identified Indigenous youth at Olympia and Capitol High Schools culminating in a live storytelling (reading) event featuring these young people and Indigenous celebration with film premieres, food and Native arts vendors hosted by the Washington Center for the Performing Arts on May 23rd.   

What is "The Fox and the Butterfly"?

Native communities have a rich history of oral storytelling.  "The Fox and the Butterfly" carries this fire by providing during/after school workshops on storytelling at Olympia and Capitol High School for five months.  

Teaching artists are:

Dylan Elwood (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), teaching artist, is Literary Arts Manager of of Red Eagle Soaring Native Youth Theatre, located in Seattle, Washington, for sixteen years. He has acted in and co-written 40+ productions and engaged with the Seattle Native community, culminating in the premiere of his production Killer Whale and the Black Rush at ACT Theatre among others.

Rena Priest (Lummi),  

Here is a work sample from a ongoing project, "The Aunties" for context of what IPP does:

Filming "The Aunties"	Film Crew
Filming "The Aunties"	The Aunties school Show