Films at the Museum: Powwow People

Fri Jan 30 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-06:00

2727 S Rockford Rd, Tulsa, OK | Tulsa

Philbrook Museum of Art
Publisher/HostPhilbrook Museum of Art
Films at the Museum: Powwow People
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Films at the Museum: Powwow People
Friday, January 30
7:00pm – 9:00pm
$10 Member
FREE Member Youth (17 & Under)
$15 Adult
$10 Youth (13-17)
$5 Youth (12 & Under)
*All tickets include general admission to museum & gardens.
**This indoor screening will take place in the Patti Johnson Wilson Auditorium. See front desk for directions.
6:30 PM: Auditorium Doors Open
7:00 PM: Program Begins
9:00 PM: Program Concludes
Join us on Friday, January 30 for a special screening of visionary director Sky Hopinka’s feature film, Powwow People. Introduction from Loren Waters (Cherokee/Kiowa) followed by panel program with films’s Producer Adam Piron (Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and Mohawk), Director Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) and Executive Producer Sterlin Harjo (Seminole Nation).
Hopinka’s film is not a detached observation but an intimate, cinematic assertion of sovereignty, inviting audiences into the vibrant orbit of a powwow. Eschewing conventional documentary, the film uses atmospheric precision to open intimate spaces with dancers, singers, and drummers, braiding memory, motion, and cultural resonance across the arc of a single day, culminating in a mesmeric 30-minute unbroken shot of a Northern Traditional dance special. A multidisciplinary artist who has reshaped Indigenous cinema, Hopinka consciously co-organized the powwow for the film, subverting the extractive lens of ethnography to create a collaboration that is, in essence, a powwow in cinematic form.
Community Partner Tulsa Film Collective + Support from Waters Media
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