Arbons Arts Center

WE ARE HERE is a 3 day arts festival exploring indigenous past, present and futures. The festival will include work by Indigenous visual artists, filmmakers and musicians who utilize their own technologies, ancestral knowledge, and survival tactics. 

Centering indigenous womxn directors who have always been cultural creators, WE ARE HERE presents screenings of two short films by Laura Hinman and Barsha Maharjan. The feature presentation of the night is Vai. A brief discussion moderated by filmmaker Genesis Abaj will follow. 

Featuring performances by JUNTA, PrieSTusSSY, *Stefa, Kino Benally, Turqiouz Noiz, ASCXNSION, Chhoti maa and Kelsey Pyro. DJ set by reddaughter. 

A theatrical exhumation of the first feature-length “sound film” The Jazz Singer, reinterpreted by Joshua William Gelb and Nehemiah Luckett.