News and Events
- 3/13/2010 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Performing Arts Festival 2010, Mashantucket Pequot Museum
Each year, the ECHO Performing Arts Festival travels to communities across America. Native and immigrant cultural performing artists from the ECHO partner regions of Alaska, Hawai'i, Mississippi and Massachusetts come together to entertain and educate through a performance piece that shares their cultural traditions in an engaging, lively, presentation, suitable for all ages.
This year's performance, Celebrate: Song, Dance & Story!, takes us on a journey down life's paths, from childhood to love and marriage and beyond. Using traditional and innovative stories, songs, and dances, we learn of challenges and triumphs while exploring the values of these communities: what is important to them, whether it is about respect for ancestral ways or the dangers of jealousy and vanity. The ECHO Performing Arts Festival is in its tenth year of providing compelling educational programs with a Native American, Hawaiian Native, Alaska Native base.
