An Evening with Lyla June: Indigenous Worldview & Restoring Right Relations

2300 West Innes Street,Salisbury NC 28144

08 November, 2021

Description

An Evening with Lyla June - - - - - Indigenous Worldview and Restoring Right Relations - - - - - A Plenary Musical Performance Catawba College is hosting scholar-artist Lyla June! Join us on November 8th at 6:30pm! This will be a blended speaking and musical plenary session. Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her dynamic, multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. She blends studies in Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree, focusing on Indigenous food systems revitalization. This event is sponsored by Catawba College and its Equity, Diversity, Justice and Inclusion (EDJI) Task Force and the Center for the Environment. For more information or if you have questions, contact Dr. Mercedes Quesada-Embid at mquesada19(at)catawba.edu Free and Open to the Public. Masks are Required.