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Welcome to our tenth annual gathering.
WORLD MUSE is inspired by the enormous potential of individuals to create positive change in their
For the past decade, World MUSE has brought together local and visiting artists, activists, change makers and
lives and in our world. Our
thought leaders. It has been an honor to welcome so many incredible muses to the stage over the years.
mission is to celebrate
This will be our second year of hosting an UnConference. The term “unconference” has been applied to a wide
the work and amplify the
range of gatherings that try to break down hierarchical aspects of conventional conferences. As an organiza-
voices of change mak-
tion, we have decided to unconference completely. To that end, this will be our last event in its current iteration. In order to fully break from the conventional mold and create something new, we plan to pause for self-reflection and community connection. We are still committed to celebrating the work and amplifying the voices of change makers in our local community and beyond. Our MUSE Clubs and MUSE Maker Program will allow us to continue our mission while re-imagining what future community events could look like. Thank you to the many presenters, volunteers, crew members, and attendees who have been a part of MUSE Conference + UnConference for the past ten years. This event has been a reflection of your passion, dedication, curiosity, and courage. You have inspired us to grow, evolve, learn more and do better. The ripples you created
ers while providing our community members with inspiration, tools and support to create positive change in their own lives, in their communities, and in our world.
will continue to spread. We are excited to be closing this chapter with such a wonderful lineup of live and virtual programming, from a
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youth public art show to an online community conversation series. We hope this weekend provides you with opportunities to reflect, connect, and intersect. With Deep Gratitude, Amanda Stuermer MUSE Founder
MUSE Unconference aims to break down financial barriers to attendance. Our payments are structured on an equity scale to reflect varied social locations and financial abilities. Your payment covers all sessions, all days. SPACE IS LIMITED FOR LIVE EVENTS: attendance at Live Artist Talk, Live Main Program, Live Film premier, and Live 7 Generation Workshop are all free add-ons that must be reserved.
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EXPERIENCE
Mindfulness Practices, Conversation Series, Art as Activism Workshop, Livestream of Main Program + Film Premier in the comfort of your own home.
PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT
Halie Devlin
will be leading two
online mindfulness practices. Halie is a yoga and meditation teacher, ceremonialist, nutritional therapy practitioner, and a woman in recovery for 6+ years. The work she does is both body-centered and spiritually-oriented.
PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT
Maimouna Youssef
(aka: Mumu Fresh) will be leading a virtual workshop on Art as Activism. Mumu Fresh is a Grammy-Nominated, Indigenous Music award winning, Musical Ambassador for the US, former elected Governor of The DC Chapter of The Recording Academy & an Ambassador of The Black Music Collective. She has toured internationally as a critically acclaimed singer, Emcee, songwriter, activist, workshop facilitator and now audio engineer who’s been called a “quadruple threat” by The Roots’ Black Thought, a musical “Quasar” by Indie rap legend TechN9ne, & “groundbreaking” by Oscar-winning artist, Common.
ART AS ACTIVISM WORKSHOP
Live Zoom Workshop
With Maimouna Youssef Sunday, March 6th 1:00-2:15pm
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MARCH 4
Live Intersections: FRIDAY
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Where Art & Activism Meet ART EXHIBIT
Opening + Artist Talk with April Bey at Scalehouse Gallery 5:30-6:30pm ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
April Bey
is featured in the exhibit we are co-hosting with Scalehouse Arts. Bey grew up in The Bahamas (New Providence) and now resides and works in Los Angeles, CA as a visual artist and art educator. Her interdisciplinary artwork is an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian culture, contemporary pop culture, feminism, generational theory, social media, AfroFuturism, AfroSurrealism, post-colonialism and constructs of race within supremacist systems. ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Sadie Barnette
is featured in the exhibit we are co-hosting with Scalehouse Arts. Barnette’s multimedia practice illuminates her own family history as it mirrors a collective history of repression and resistance in the United States. The last born of the last born, and hence the youngest of her generation, Barnette holds a long and deep fascination with the personal and political value of kin. Recent projects include the reclamation of a 500-page FBI surveillance file amassed on her father during his time with the Black Panther Party and her interactive reimagining of his bar — San Francisco’s first Black-owned gay bar.
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MARCH 5 SATURDAY
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Main Program
at The Tower Theater 1:00-4:00pm PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT
Dr. Angela Davis
will be joining us in a virtual conversation with artist Sadie Barnette and local activist Judith Sadora.Through her activism and scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice. Professor Davis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College, and UC Berkeley. She also has taught at UCLA, Vassar, the Claremont Colleges, and Stanford University. She spent the last fifteen years at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary Ph.D program, and of Feminist Studies.
PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT
Jaylyn Suppah
will be sharing her work with Papalaxsimisha. Jaylyn is a mother, educator, advocate for social justice and a member of the Confederated Tribe of Warm Springs (CTWS). She was raised in Simnasho, Oregon and is a traditional food gatherer for her Tribe. She is a mother of two beautiful children. Her Indian name is Alish (Ah-lish) which was given to her from her namesake; Margaret Suppah, her grandmother who raised her. Her passion is decolonizing education for herself, her children, her community, and always looks for ways to incorporate her culture into her home, classroom and programming. She developed the Papalaxsimisha program which incorporates historical trauma, healing, self-identity, cultural awareness, high school readiness, college and career readiness in a curriculum she and two other native teachers developed.
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MARCH 5 SATURDAY
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PUBLIC ART
Inside Out Project in Tin Pan Alley All day
Inside Out: Intersections
is a public art project inspired by International
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street artist JR. It will feature members of our local youth community exploring the intersections where they find themselves in their own lives and in our community. Corresponding film will be shared in main program.
FILM PREMIER at The Tower Theater 6:00-8:00pm
A REFLECTION OF SELF
A Reflection of Self
is the third film we’ve produced in collaboration with Unlocked Films. It amplifies the voices and experiences of our LGBTQIA+ community members and explores what it really means to be free. We will be co-hosting this premier in partnership with OUT Central Oregon as part of their WinterPrideFest Programming.
SPECIAL LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT World MUSE acknowledges that we are settlers on the traditional homelands of the Confederation of the Warm Springs, Wasco and Paiute Native American Tribes. We are all treaty signers, and are thus responsible and accountable for the historical and present day violence that Indigenous people face. Until action is taken to identify and empower Indigenous people, until accurate history is taught, and until land-based justice is carried out, a land acknowledgement statement feels mostly empty and alienating. World Muse has committed to making annual reparations to the Warm Springs Tribal Council as a small but necessary action. We invite you to learn more about whose land we reside on and find ways to take action.
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MARCH 6 SUNDAY
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CLOSING WORKSHOP at COCC 10:00-11:00am FACILITATOR SPOTLIGHT
Acosia Red Elk
Special T hanks TO OUR 2022 PARTNERS Thank you to all of the partners who made MUSE UnConference 2022 a reality. We could not do this work without your support. We’d like to extend a special thank you to the Bend Cultural Tourism Fund.
will lead a 7 Generation Prayer Flow Workshop for us to close out weekend. In this integrative yoga class Acosia will use the 7 Generation Philosophy to connect past, present and future. In this class with Acosia, we will move with intention in regards to our body, our health, and our resources, honoring the past, and praying forward for the next 7 generations and beyond. This is a prayerful, breath initiated practice, that connects every action of our life with the intention of moving towards what is sacred, or most important to us. Class will close with a guided timeline clearing meditation. The 7 generation philosophy is derived from the Iroquois Confederacy.
The Bend Cultural Tourism Fund (BCTF) is a grant program dedicated to enhancing the local economy through the promotion and cultivation of Bend’s cultural tourism programs. Grants allocated through the BCTF support art and culture based projects and programs that attract tourists to the City of Bend.
MOLLIE HOGAN Principal Broker, CRS
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SUSTAINING PARTNERS Northline, Cudd Foundation PRESENTING PARTNERS KwikLok, Old Mill SUPPORTING PARTNERS Kollective, High Desert Law, St Charles Hospital EVENT PARTNERS Barre3,
Bryant, Lovlien & Jarvis, Brooks Resources, Cascades Academy of Central Oregon, Central Oregon Community College, Euijin Gray, Kaycee Anseth Foundation, Mother’s Juice Cafe, HydroFlask, Pepper Family Fund, Mollie Hogan at Skjersaa Group/Duke Warner MEDIA PARTNERS Source Weekly, OPB, Cascade Publications COMMUNITY PARTNERS Central Oregon Community College, OUT Central Oregon, Oxford Hotel, Scalehouse Arts DOCUMENTARY FILM PARTNER Unlocked Films PRODUCTION TEAM Wahoo Films, Ideal Solutions, Abby June Becker, Kina Condit-Chadwick,
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WORLD MUSE SUPPORTS THE NEXT GENERATION OF CHANGE MAKERS. WORLD MUSE
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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT Our MUSE
Maker Grant
Program provides support for individuals and projects that inspire
positive social change in our local community. Over the past 10 years, World Muse has contributed over $40,000 to support social change efforts from creative arts education for grieving children, to non-competitive cycling events for young girls, to generating awareness and support for the LGBTQIA+ community and beyond. Our grants allow us to partner with local change-makers who are working to inspire positive social change. Some of our recent grant recipients—The Helpers, The Father’s Group, Papalaxsimisha, Greenhouse Cabaret, and The Cult of Tuck—will be featured during our main program at The Tower Theater.
PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT World Muse created
Muse Clubs
to inspire and support youth as they address social change
issues and begin to imagine a better world. Muse Clubs provide middle and high school students with opportunities for connection and reflection, along with creative projects and platforms that allow them to be seen and heard by our community. Inside Out: Intersections, a public art project created by Muse Club members will be on display all weekend in Tin Pan Alley.
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Special T hank You WORLD MUSE MEMBERS & VOLUNTEERS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT