LET THERE BE NO REGRETS — an online series featuring United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo!
Event(s) Description—Click on the live links to view the event:
Wednesday, Sept. 25: A discussion featuring Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis and Professor Andrew Woolford Ph.D.: Panel Discussion
Free film link: Unspoken: America’s Native American Boarding Schools
Tuesday, Sept. 29: A reading by Joy Harjo. [Reading not available.]
Thursday, Oct. 1: Joy Harjo & Terry Tempest Williams Discussion of Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
Presented by Poetry Promise, Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival, and the Clark County Poet Laureate.
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and was named the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019. She is the first Indigenous author to be so honored.
Our free online three-part series ram Sept. 23, Sept. 29 and Oct. 1, 2020. Descriptions are below.
Wednesday, September 23 at 5:00 p.m. (PDT) – In conjunction with the Joy Harjo program, the 20th annual Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival (LVJFF) presents a free online screening of a PBS documentary film entitled Unspoken Americas: Native American Boarding Schools, as part of its ongoing virtual film series. Following the screening will be a webinar discussion of the documentary, moderated by Joshua Abbey, Director of LVJFF, featuring Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis (the first Native Supreme Court Justice from Washington) and Professor Andrew Woolford, Ph.D. of the University of Manitoba (former head of the International Institute of Genocide Scholars).
Free film link to watch: Unspoken: America’s Native American Boarding Schools
Tuesday, September 29 at 5:00 p.m. (PDT) – Joy read poetry including work from her new book An American Sunrise via Zoom.
Thursday, October 1 at 5:00 p.m. (PDT) – Joy participated in a webinar conversation with author Terry Tempest Williams about the August 2020 publication of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry.
We are grateful to the sponsors of this event. It would not be possible without them:
Additional support was provided by the UNLV Native American Alumni Club, UNLV Native American Student Association, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, National Congress of American Indians, National Indian Justice Center, The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, Spill the Honey Foundation, Office of Arts & Culture at Nevada State College, Brave New Voices, Jewish Nevada/Jewish Community Center of Southern Nevada, Anti-Defamation League Nevada, ZACHOR Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Imagine Communications, and numerous individual sponsors.