Free Family Storytelling Program With well known storyteller and musician Steven Wounded Deer Alvarez

2 pm in the MIAC  O’KeeffeTheater, a free family friendly program. Seating is limited. Tickets will be given out starting at 1pm.  

Well known storyteller Steven Alvarez presents a program of short contemporary native tales and music. Steven Alvarez (Mescalero Apache, Yaqui, and Upper Tanana Athabascan) lives in Anchorage where he works for the Native Alaskan Heritage Center as director of cultural education and Strategic initiatives.  Raised in a multi-ethnic military family, Steven had the opportunity to grow up within many diverse cultures including Hispanic, Native American, Hawaiian, Japanese, and all three coasts of the continental U.S. He graduated from San Jose State University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Music Education (Voice and Percussion) and History with a minor in Philosophy. He has been a life long musician, performer, and thespian. “CONNECTIONS” is a Steven Alvarez production of three traditional stories about Native people reconnecting or staying connected with their culture.  It is a one man theater piece fusing traditional and contemporary performance art. Each skillfully woven story ends with a contemporary song relating back to the story, and the accompaniment of that song is imbedded in beautiful films of still and moving images of contemporary and historic photos of Native elders and people who represent the wisdom and knowledge of the cultures.