Poetry Potluck Poster and Play Info

Here is the Poetry Potluck poster.  Feel free to print, post, and distribute.

Here is the information on the play I mentioned which addresses issues around growing up on a reservation.  Many of the readers in the play are in fact indigenous.

GROWING UP WHITE ON THE RESERVATION

A Full-length play written by Pamela Jamruszka Mencher
Directed by Penny Walrath Cole

Free Staged Reading: December 6, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

Buntport Theater – 717 Lipan, Denver

“How much of yourself do you need to give up to be accepted?” This is one of the many questions raised in Pamela Jamruska Mencher’s new full-length play, Growing Up White on the Reservation. Weaving humor and drama together against a backdrop of the American Indian civil rights movement of the 1960’s and 70’s the play truthfully and honestly deals with the impact of society on the individual.

Mandy and Vickie are sisters growing up on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana in 1972. As two of the few white people on the reservation they are clearly a minority within a minority. We follow each sister’s journey in the play as the chaos and racial tensions on the reservation and from the world outside affect their relationships with their Indian classmates, family and each other. The clash of cultures combined with the social upheaval of the time period makes for a volatile environment in which all the characters are struggling to understand each other and themselves.