Lakota YouthStay Program
Film Watch Party: Gather
Virtual MAThe Lakota YouthStay Program presents a virtual watch party for the film "Gather," an intimate portrait of a growing movement among Indigenous Americans to reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities through obtaining sovereignty over their ancestral food systems, while battling against the historical trauma brought on by centuries of genocide. In the film, an indigenous …
Lakota YouthStay Fitness Fundraiser
Reimagym Fitness Center 215B Salem St, Medford, MA, United StatesWant to get some post-Thanksgiving exercise and help a good cause at the same time? Lakota YouthStay is teaming up with the Medford fitness center Reimagym to present a 45-minute fitness class as a fundraiser for cultural exchange program that brings Native American youth to Medford each summer. Participants may attend the 45-minute session in-person …
Lakota YouthStay Poetry Workshop
Brooks Elementary School 388 High Street, Medford, MA, United StatesThe Lakota YouthStay program is presenting a free poetry workshop, "Let's Make a Memory: Connecting Community," in the Brooks Elementary School library. Open to youth ages 12 to 15 from Medford and nearby communities, the workshop will be led by Terry E. Carter, who concluded is term as the City of Medford's first poet laureate …
Lakota YouthStay Youth Photography and Poetry Exhibit
The Gallery at Sanctuary 458 High St., Medford, MALakota YouthStay is hosting an exhibit, “We Are All Related: Photographs and Poems by Lakota and Medford Youth,” at The Gallery at Sanctuary. Come meet the Native American youth visiting Medford this summer from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and see photos taken by them around Boston during the 2023 YouthStay program week. …
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Exhibition Opening: Lakota YouthStay – New Experiences, Clarity of Vision
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAThe July art exhibition at the Medford Public Library, “New Experiences, Clarity of Vision,” will feature works from participants in the Lakota YouthStay cultural exchange program. Since 2017, Oglala Lakota youth from the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota have visited Eastern Massachusetts each summer as part of the Lakota YouthStay, founded by Medford resident …
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Artists Reception: Lakota YouthStay – New Experiences, Clarity of Vision
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAAll are invited to a reception to meet the eight members of the 2024 Lakota YouthStay program whose works are on display this month in the Medford Public Library exhibition “New Experiences, Clarity of Vision.” Since 2017, Oglala Lakota youth from the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota have visited Eastern Massachusetts each summer as …
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