Minot Daily News SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2016
MSU Summer Theater
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By JILL HAMBEK
Arts & Culture
Back for Season 51 MSU Summer Theater Season 51
Staff Writer jhambek@minotdailynews.com Since 1971, people have been attending live theater productions at the Minot State University Amphitheater, home of the MSU Summer Theater Company. This beautiful outdoor theater, set in a grass-lined hillside north of the campus, has been the venue for entertainment for 50 years and counting. This summer marks the 51st season of MSU Summer Theater. Kevin Neuharth, who has been the artistic director of the company for more than 30 years, has stepped down from that post. Stepping in for the interim will be Conrad Davidson, dean of arts and sciences at MSU. Chad Gifford is the associate director of production and Aili Smith is the associate director of business. Productions for this summer include “Godspell” June 8-12, “School House Rock” June 17-21, “Noises Off” June 28-July 2 and “Oklahoma” July 13-17. “Godspell” is based on the Gospel of Matthew with a variety of modern music set primarily to lyrics from traditional hymns, with the passion of Christ treated briefly near the end of the performance. A variety of musical styles, from pop to folk rock, gospel and vaudeville, are included in the show. The show originated in 1970 as a master’s thesis project and has seen success as a Broadway hit. Perhaps better known as a series of animated musical educational short films, “School House Rock” is also a children’s musical and features lessons in grammar, math and other subjects set to catchy lyrics and fun skits. This musical has never been performed at MSU Summer Theater.
Godspell June 8-12
School House Rock June 17-21 Noises Off June 28July 2
“Little Shop of Horrors” was a hit at MSU Summer Theater last year. If you’ve ever wondered what goes on behind the stage, “Noises Off” provides a comedic illustration with dropped trousers and doors slamming. Each of the three acts of “Noises Off” contains a performance of the first act of a play within a play, a poor farce called “Nothing On.” “Oklahoma” is the first musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, set in Oklahoma Territory in 1906. It tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams. It was a box-office smash and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Academy Award-winning 1955 film adaptation. “Oklahoma” has
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TOP LEFT: “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” was one of the shows brought to the stage during one of the past seasons of MSU Summer Theater. TOP RIGHT: Cast members of MSU Summer Theater perform in a recent production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the MSU Amphitheater. MSU Summer Theater opens their 51st season this summer with the Broadway hit “Godspell.” MIDDLE: MSU Summer Theater performed “The Music Man” during last summerʼs season of MSU Summer Theater. BOTTOM LEFT: “The Music Man,” a popular show for theater companies, was brought to life last summer during the 50th season of MSU Summer Theater. BOTTOM RIGHT: MSU Summer Theater performed “Little Shop of Horrors” last summer.
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also long been a popular choice for school and community productions. Each summer there is a mix of returning and rookie cast members for Summer Theater. Audience members will see familiar faces from seasons past, such as Peg Morris, Michelle Spencer Davidson, Brett Olson, Kena Davidson, Kari Files and others. New faces include, but are not limited to, Ben Weinert-Lishner, assistant professor of theater, who will be the technical director and scenic designer for MSU Summer Theater. Connie Gilseth is directing “School House Rock,” and Joshua Wise, from Studio X, is choreographing “Godspell.” Smith said the most popular shows this season will be “Oklahoma” and “School House Rock.” “Oklahoma” is a well-known musical with beautiful catchy songs, she added, and “School House Rock” is cast almost entirely with kids. “People love summer theater because of the friendly atmosphere created by the artistic leadership and company members,” Smith said. “The outdoor amphitheater is a unique space to view and perform live theater. It’s
People love summer theater because of the friendly atmosphere created by the artistic leadership and company members.
– Aili Smith
associate director of business welcoming family friendly entertainment for all.” Smith said she was a Summer Theater company member in 1994 and assigned to build sets and act. She performed the role of Grace in “Annie” that summer and after that season was hooked, declaring herself a theater major at Minot State University. Smith has also directed and choreographed “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” among other shows. She is currently an associate professor of communication arts and theater and the chair of Arts and Communication Arts at MSU. Gifford joined Summer Theater in 1995 as an actor and then later joined the company to work on set crews and in the box office. He directed “The Music Man” last summer and will be directing “Oklahoma” this summer. “Summer Theatre is an amazing ex-
perience for all involved,” Gifford said. “In just a couple of months, we put together four and sometimes five different shows. This is intense and stressful as well as wonderfully rewarding to see so many talented people showcasing their abilities for Minot and the surrounding communities. I can’t imagine doing anything else with my summer.” Reservations are strongly encouraged since the shows have a tendency to sell out. Reservations can be made by calling 858-3228 starting May 31. All shows begin at 8:30 p.m. with the box office opening at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens and children over 12, $5 for children 12 and under, and $3 for MSU personnel and summer students with current MSU ID. There are also special rates for active military and their immediate dependent family members. For more information, visit minotstateu.edu/theatre/summer.
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A rt s & C u l t u re “I’ve done beadwork since I was a child,” he said. He also teaches beadwork although he doesn’t consider himself an authority on it. “Yet I know enough. I know how to put your colors together when you bead,” he said. Native American people look at the colors when they put their beadwork together, he said. “It has so much to do with the earth and things of the earth – your trees, your flowers, the
different shades. Even one leaf can have different shades depending on the time of the year. So you look at your plants, your flowers, the sky, water, earth – all of that when you’re putting your beadwork together.” Marion creates a variety of projects at the gallery that people can take part in on Saturdays. “We always do something different in our classes,” he said.
The projects are open to anyone interested. Project hours are flexible. Children accompanied by adults can take part in the classes. He encourages family participation. He said some people taking the classes might not be artists at this point. “But this may be their start,” he said. Laptop computers are available to Native American artists for art-related research. Marion said he can also help them
build a resume or put together a business plan. “Now for the retail portion I want everybody to come in,” he added. The store is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information call the Heart Of The Turtle at 8388739 or visit its website at heartoftheturtlegallery.com or Facebook page at facebookheartoftheturtle.
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This acrylic is by Duane Peltier of Belcourt. He is one of about 50 Native American artists with artwork in the Heart Of The Turtle located in downtown Minot.
By ELOISE OGDEN
Regional Editor• eogden@minotdailynews.com Heart Of The Turtle in downtown Minot is more than a retail art gallery of Native American art. It’s also a resource center for Native American artists. Operated by the Turtle Mountain Tribal Arts Association, Heart Of The Turtle is located on the main floor of Minot Artspace at 3 S. Main St., Suite 1. “The purpose of the Turtle Mountain Tribal Arts Association is to empower the artists in their art that they become selfsufficient. That’s our main purpose. The art gallery helps with that,” said association executive director Joseph Marion. Born and raised at Belcourt on the Turtle Mountain Reservation, Marion, who has been executive director of the arts association for several years, runs the Minot gallery. He travels to Belcourt once a week where the arts association has a facility in the Heritage Center. Heart Of The Turtle opened in downtown Minot in October 2014. Currently about 50 Native American artists, the majority of them who are members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, have work in the Minot art gallery. Marion would like artists from other tribes to also participate in the gallery. The present art in the retail store is “a little bit of everything,” he said. It ranges from
paintings, beadwork, red willow and sweetgrass baskets to birch bark bitings and more. For those who do not know what birch bark bitings are, he explained that birch bark peels into many layers. “You take tissue-thin pieces, they fold it all up and they use only the eye teeth to create these items,” he said. “That was an art that was pretty much lost in the Turtle Mountains. Nobody was doing it for so many years.” He said one woman decided to start doing this type of work and now she’s doing a whole series. “She revived that art,” he said. The story about the sweetgrass baskets is somewhat similar in that no one was working with sweetgrass to make items. Now a woman is working with sweetgrass in her spare time and making sweetgrass baskets. “They’re beautiful. She adds beadwork to them now,” Marion said. A resident of Mandaree on the Fort Berthold Reservation also has items for sale in the retail store. A leather vest hanging in the gallery is Marion’s work. “I’ve always had dreams of being in the fashion world and designing. I’m a very creative person so I decided to start creating some leather pieces. That’s the first one I’ve done. My next piece is going to be a jacket,” he said. He also does beadwork.
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Night at the museum D By JILL HAMBEK
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oes the Taube Museum of Art have ghosts? Do things go bump in the night when no one is there? Do the noises heard have reasonable explanations? There is the possibility of an appearance by the museum’s ghost, which is said to roam the galleries, at Family Night at the Museum, a new fundraiser to help kick off the summer art classes at the Taube Museum of Art. Family Night at the Museum will be held from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, May 6. Creativity will be the cornerstone for children’s imaginations as this exciting and new event promises to be fun for all ages and an evening filled with a variety of art activities. There will be dinosaur themed art activity stations as well as other activities and a viewing of the movie “Night at the Museum.” Additionally, there will be entertainment, photo opportunities, a scavenger hunt, face painting, temporary tattoos, food and story time. Staff and volunteers will be dressed in costume based on “Night at the Museum” to help lend an authentic atmosphere to the event. Doug Pfliger, gallery manager at the Taube Museum of Art, said a ghost or mummy, not specifying which, will be making appearances throughout the evening. It’s also possible that Sakakawea will serve as the greeter and there will also be a couple of security officers serving as guides. “The museum staff designed the event as a way to share the mysteries of the museum with families already familiar with the museum, as well as for families entering the doors for the first time,” said executive director Nancy Walter. “We are excited to bring this opportunity to your community.” The event is an opportunity for families to learn about the rich history of the Taube Museum in a funfilled environment, she added.
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TOP: Before it was the Taube Museum of Art, it was Union National Bank and Jacobson-Fugelso Hardware Store. ABOVE: The Taube Museum of Art will be holding Family Night at the Museum May 6, with lots of childrenʼs activities and perhaps even a visit from the resident friendly ghost rumored to haunt the building.
Taube Museum of Art to host family night Family Fun Night at the Museum Friday, May 6 6-9p.m.
We are excited to bring this opportunity to your community.
– Nancy Walter
Taube Museum of Art executive director
Pfliger said the hope is that Family Night at the Museum will become an annual event. He’s also hoping it will bring a different crowd of people to the museum. Since the museum is housed in such an old building, it would only make sense that there is rumored to be a resident ghost. Pfliger said he has not personally seen the spirit, but a former employee has claimed to see one. The ghost is said to be an elderly gentleman dressed in early 1900s business attire, possibly a banker from the time the building was a bank. He walks from one end of the building to the other and is seemingly harmless. Walter said she has not seen the ghost, but has heard footsteps in the building that are unexplained. Sometimes when groups of students are walking
through the Taube Museum on a tour, Pfliger said he will tell the story of the museum ghost. Some of the younger kids decide they will not go to the lower level as a result, he added. The ghost is the only mystery at the museum, although Pfliger said the night depository is still located downstairs and someone checks it each night to make sure there aren’t any surprises left behind. Since it was formerly a bank, the hope is that someone might have dropped off some money, he added. According to the Minot Memories blog, before the building was an art gallery, it was the Jacobson and Fugelso Hardware store. The building also housed the Jacobson Opera House and Union National Bank. The building was destroyed in a fire and later rebuilt by the bank, while the hard-
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ware store built in a new location. The Lillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art, formerly known as the Minot Art Gallery, is a public nonprofit membership driven organization. The Minot Art Association, which was the founding organization, opened the Minot Art Gallery in 1970 by a group of patrons with the intent of creating an art gallery. In 2006 the Minot Art Association formally changed their name to the Lillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art. The Minot Art Gallery was initially located in the Linha home on U.S. Highway 83 North. It then moved to the Ward County Historical Society building located on the North Dakota State Fairgrounds east of Minot. In 1978 the Minot Art Gallery was relocated to another Ward County Historical Society building, the J.E. Harmon House, also located on the North Dakota State Fairgrounds. In 1997 the organization achieved their goal of securing a permanent location and the Minot Art Gallery moved to the historically renovated Union National Bank building located at 2 North Main. Pfliger said some of the characteristics of the bank remain at the museum, such as the marble flooring, brass railing and coffered ceiling. Funding for Family Night at the Museum will be used for continued arts programming to help fulfill the Taube Museum of Art’s mission of enriching lives through the visual arts. The event is made possible with support from the Minot Area Community Foundation and Dakota Outdoor Advertising. To partake in the funfilled, open house style fundraiser, the cost for the event is $10 per person or $38 for a family of four. The Taube Museum and and gift shop hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday or by special appointment. For more information, contact Walter or Pfliger at 8384445.
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By JILL HAMBEK
Staff Writer jhambek@minotdailynews.com During your years in college, you work hard, spend hours and hours studying, focus on the end result of earning your degree and when you finally finish, a big celebration is in order. Students at Minot State University will soon be celebrating their college completion with a big celebration. The 27th annual Spring Honor Dance and Powwow Celebration will be held and hosted by MSU’s Native American Cultural Awareness Club May 6 and 7 at the Minot State University Dome. The com-
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Dancers enter the Minot State University Dome during the Grand Entry at the MSU Spring Honor Dance and Powwow Celebration.
munity is invited to enjoy Native American food, dancing and singing as soon to be, newly minted Native American graduates are celebrated and honored for their accom-
plishment. Events begin at 11 a.m. with grand entries at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. each day. The grand entries will consist of a parade of dancers followed by contest
dances. On Friday there will be a special dance honoring ClifAndrea Johnson/MDN ford Klimpel and on Saturday will be a memorial special for The Little Shell Singers perform an honor song Wylie Hammond, who was the Friday afternoon at last yearʼs Spring Honor former Native American Cen- Dance and Powwow Celebration at Minot State
University. The song was performed in memory of Wylie Hammond, a former director of the Native American Cultural Center at Minot State University, who died last year at age 68.
ter director but died last year. There will also be a free buffalo supper Saturday at 5 p.m. in the MSU Student Center and an honor parade for the MSU graduating class of 2016 that night at 8 p.m. Contest dances will be held both days for various ages and categories with cash prizes awarded for first, second and third places. Contests include all ages including golden (for those age 60 and over), men’s and women’s (for ages 18-59), teens (for ages 13-17), juniors (for ages 7-12) and tiny tots (for ages 6 and under). There will also be prizes for drumming given for the first 10 drums. Vendors will have goods for sale as well. Annette Mennem, Native American Center director at Minot State University, said there have been an average of 20 Native American graduates each year, but in more recent years the honor dance event has been honoring all MSU graduates. “A powwow is a celebration,” Mennem said, adding that the word is often used and misused as another term for meeting. The focus of the honor dance and powwow celebration is to celebrate the hard work the graduates have done and focus on bringing the community together, Mennem continued. She also said it’s to educate people about Native
American culture. The Spring Honor Dance and Powwow Celebration at MSU is a family affair for many people. Mennem said people come from North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Canada. “People like it because they have a sense of family here and it takes athleticism to do the dancing,” Mennem said. People also like to watch the dancing, she added. One thing the honor dance and powwow does is takes care of people’s curiosity about Native American culture if they have never attended one. “The sound, the colors, and the drums sound like a heartbeat,” she added, describing the scene. People will also ask questions about the regalia, Mennem said. The Spring Honor Dance and Powwow Celebration has grown a lot over the years, too, Mennem said. Admission to the event is $3 for people ages 12 to 55. Elders are free, as are MSU students, faculty and staff with ID. Door prizes will be awarded throughout the event. For a full schedule of events, check out the website minotstateu.edu or find them on Facebook at MSU - Native American Cultural Awareness Club. For more information, contact Mennem at 858-3365.
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Movie making From left to right, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, director of “The Revenant,” Loren Yellow Bird Sr., technical adviser, and Leonardo DiCaprio, star of the movie who plays fur trapper Hugh Glass, are shown. Yellow Bird is a park ranger at Fort Union, southwest of Williston.
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Regional Editor • eogden@minotdailynews.com
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ILLISTON – When “The Revenant,” the story of fur trapper Hugh Glass, opens in theaters across the county today, moviegoers will see the work of a North Dakota man in it. Loren Yellow Bird Sr., cultural resource interpreter and park ranger at Fort Union National Historic Site southwest of Williston, was technical adviser for the movie that stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Glass. Yellow Bird is a member of the Arikara tribe, one of the three tribes comprising the Three Affiliated Tribes on the Fort Berthold Reservation. He spent the majority of his growing years at White Shield, home of the Arikara, and has college degrees in history and anthropology. Yellow Bird got involved in the movie after responding to an email from a friend when movie people were asking for an open cast call for Native American actors. “The only thing I have ever done was some things to promote state tourism,” he said. He submitted a resume, although it was a day late for the deadline. As it turned out, the movie’s personnel discovered Yellow Bird is an Arikara, knew the Arikara language and also has frontier skills. They flew him to Calgary, Alberta, to the movie filming site and he was hired as a technical adviser. In this capacity, he spent much time with “The Revenant” director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, lead actor DiCaprio and others participating in the movie project. Yellow Bird’s voice is used in the movie and the Native American languages being spoken mainly are his product, as well as advising on costumes, battles and a number of other items. “The Arikara is what they hired me to do,” Yellow Bird said. He also helped with other languages. “The primary languages that are spoken in the film are English, Arikara, Pawnee and French,” he said. “I had to teach the French how to speak Arikara, which was
North Dakota man is ‘The Revenant’s tech adviser Hugh Glass story: fact or fiction? By ELOISE OGDEN
Regional Editor eogden@minotdailynews.com
What is fact, what is fiction? As far as the facts and fiction of the story of fur trapper Hugh Glass, the subject of the new movie “The Revenant,” Loren Yellow Bird Sr., technical adviser to the movie, said, “I think he follows that typical fur trapper, hunter, mountain-man type of thing.” The movie is based in part on the book, “The Revenant” by Michael Punke. “He came up to Upper Missouri to make his wealth through the fur trade trapping,” Yellow Bird said. “He kind of gets into it with the Arikara based on some events that took place in 1823,” Yellow Bird said. “A guy named William Ashley came up and they did some trading with the Arikara. Thereʼs a number of things that went bad in that trade session that ended up with having a big fight break out. That happened like in May and by August, a military campaign showed up and started bombarding the Arikara villages with artillery and basically had a bunch of fur traders, members of the Sixth Infantry and I think 600 to 800 Sioux scouts. They were trying to overwhelm the Arikara. One of the chiefs of the Arikara got killed.” He said Hugh Glass participated in that campaign and his name definitely was a name that tribes and others knew. He said much of the information about Glass is based on journals. It is true that Glass survived a bear attack, Yellow Bird said. He said Glass crawled a hundred and some miles to a fort where they doctored him and found out he had been attacked by a bear. “He survived like most of these guys. They survived death for awhile until they actually died,” he said. During his life in the Upper Missouri Glass was at Fort Union for a time. “He worked here,” Yellow Bird said. He said that often guys like Glass were hunters for the fort. “They would go out and do all the hunting and bring the meat back so they could feed everybody else,” he said. He said they would also do some trapping to get pelts. Glass was killed by the Arikara, according to the journals, Yellow Bird said. “A number of them found him and a couple other guys doing some hunting and trapping.” kind of fun. Their English was broken up and then they had to take on another language.” He said they did well, though. The movie has a number of Native American actors in it who are from Canada. Forrest Goodluck, 17, of Albuquerque, N.M., who is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes and also a member of the Navaho and Tsimshian tribes, plays Glass’ son Hawk in the movie. Goodluck’s maternal grandmother is Dorothy Atkinson, originally from Elbowoods and an
enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes, according to his great-aunt Marilyn Hudson of Parshall. Yellow Bird worked with the actors just before they went on set. “So I didn’t get to see the actual dialogue take place on set because I had to get back to my job here (Fort Union),” he said. “Later on they got me down to LA after the post-production so we went over the language a lot more,” he said. He also sat in on editing sessions and to hear the French
speakers. “We did voice-over too, so my voice is on there I think twice – at least once,” he said. Yellow Bird was at the filming in September, October and November 2014 and then was flown back in 2015 for some work in January and February, and again in July. Other times he continued to help the filming personnel with language from North Dakota. Most of the filming was done west of Calgary. “At one point they flew us over to
British Columbia to an area called Squamish,” where they also did some work, he said. “That last summer they were still trying to finish but they were having issues with snow. There was not enough snow and they were having problems with that,” he said. Yellow Bird was asked to join the film team in Argentina where the last part of the scenes were done, but he was not able to be there. During the filming, Yellow Bird worked closely with DiCaprio. “Everybody didn’t get to have as many conversations with him as I did,” Yellow Bird said. “He was very professional,” Yellow Bird said of DeCaprio. “He definitely had an interest in the culture, the history. He sympathized with the story lines in terms of the Native culture. The undertones of the film were to show that these trappers are coming in and just taking everything, just destroying the environment and making the Native culture having to change... Of course, he’s an environmentalist so he had some kind of connection that way to jump into it. We’d visit about some of that.” Yellow Bird has not seen the entire movie yet, but he’s anxious for the release of the film “ because it’s about the Arikara, it’s about us,” he said. “Maybe it will give an introduction to people to get some interest not just on Arikara but every tribe in the country,” Yellow Bird said. “That was the feeling of a number of the actors. They weren’t Arikara but they wanted to do their best to make sure that portraying the Arikara they’ll do the best they can, and I appreciated that.” He said DiCaprio and others involved in the project also wanted to do the best that they could. “He (DiCaprio) even said that to me that if I see things in the script that weren’t good or appropriate and I felt could be or should be changed, to let him know and he’ll get to it. Those were good words from him,” Yellow Bird said.
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