Saturday Morning Live! Presents: Grandma's Stories from the Animal People

ABOUT THE SHOW

Dovie Thomason, an award-winning storyteller of Native and Scot Traveller descent, shares a delightful intertribal sampling of the animal stories which often explain the “what” and “why” questions about the Earth and her animal children. Join us as we celebrate Native American Heritage Month with these delightful and instructive tales!

TIME AND PLACE

Performances will take place on Saturday, November 9th at 9:30am and 11am in the Helen Hayes Gallery of The National Theatre, located at 1321 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004.

TICKETS AND DONATIONS

Please reserve tickets to the 9:30 AM or 11 AM performance. Registration is FREE but donations are welcome. Please note that you must register before adding an optional donation!

AUDIENCE

This performance is ideal for children ages 3-6 but all are welcome!

ACCESIBILITY

This performance will be ASL-interpreted. The space is wheelchair accessible.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Dovie Thomason imagines herself as a river, fed by many streams: Lakota, Apache, and Scot Traveller ancestry, urban Chicago, rural Texas and international travels, the Internet and Indigenous elders, family teachings, kitchen table wisdom, and university classrooms—and draws on those contrasts and cultures in her work. Conveying these stories respectfully and responsibly is Thomason’s calling and has made her one of the most respected and admired storytellers of her generation. When she adds personal stories and untold histories, the result is a contemporary narrative of Indigenous history and identity in North America told provocatively with elegance, wit, and passion. She has been featured at countless prominent global events, including the Kennedy Center, National Museum of the American Indian, the Smithsonian, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and festivals from Tennessee to Estonia, New Zealand to New Mexico. She has shared storytelling as an Artist-in-Education on many state rosters for over thirty years. She is a recipient of the National Storytelling Network’s Circle of Excellence award and the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers’ Traditional Storyteller Award. Learn more about Dovie at her website: www.doviethomasonstoryteller.com/.

ABOUT SATURDAY MORNING LIVE!:

Saturday Morning Live! is a program of The National Theatre Foundation made possible by The Jacqueline Badger Mars Next Generation Fund. A small donation goes a long way to helping us grow this program while keeping it accessible. Visit nationaltheatre.org/saturday-morning-live to learn more.

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Event Venue

National Theatre DC, 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004, United States