Keli Akimel Traditional Dancers from Gila River

Pueblo Grande Museum and Cultural Coalition present Virtual Portal Fest on Sunday, October 4th, 2020.
The event will be multi-streamed through Cultural Coalition’s Facebook and CZcams Channel featuring musical performances by Randy Kemp, Tony Duncan, and Quetzal Guerrero, as well as dance performances from Indigenous Enterprise and O’odham basket dancers.
There will also be an opportunity to take a sneak peak at Pueblo Grande’s new upcoming exhibit: "Rights and Resilience: Celebrating Native American Women!"
The event is a celebration of the engineering ingenuity of the Ancestral Sonoran Desert People.
Schedule a Watch Party with friends and family to enjoy an afternoon of learning and entertainment on Sunday, October 4, 2020 starting at 2 p.m.:
- STORYTELLING by Zarco Guerrero
- ART by Thomas Breeze Marcus
- DANCE by the Salt River & Gila River Indian Communities and Indigenous Enterprise
- MUSIC by Randy Kemp, Tony Duncan, Quetzal Guerrero/QVLN
- HISTORY with virtual tours of the Museum and the archaeological site
and its new exhibition.
- ART activity with children’s with found objects from home
Last year’s inaugural Portal festival unveiled the “Portal to the Past” art installation, a winner of the New Arizona Prize Water Public Art Challenge.
The piece, designed by local Arizona artist Zarco Guerrero, is a sculptural gate that incorporates images acknowledging the importance of the complex canal system created by the Ancestral Sonoran Desert People that we still use today. The “Portal” is located along the Grand Canalscape offering access to the grounds of Pueblo Grande Museum and an interpretive trail highlighting the accomplishments of the first inhabitants of the Valley of the Sun.

[@XenVibrations]

This was a healing experience for me and increased my love and respect for the desert and its people even more that it already was. please do more of this. I am one with this desert.

[@karene.burris3120]

Loved this episode.

[@haileyannlinhwilliams1844]

Thank you Lord for giving me my culture

[@cae2582]

Beautiful to see our people holding our sacred culture and traditions honoring our ancestors....
NATIVE PRIDE ✊🏼
Tohono O'Odham people of the desert 🌵🦅⚒️🇲🇽🏹🥁

[@gabrielofurantia2597]

All Brothers & Sisters are invited to the May 5 th & 6th
Spiritulation GATHERING AT Planetary Sacred Home / Avalon Gardens - Your land is big.

[@codygeewin5166]

Why is our Native Culture Referenced with the Past!??.. Our Native Culture and traditions are not of the past!! They are very much of the present!!! We as Native People aren't a people of the past!! If anything we are a people of the future!!! NATIVE INDEPENDENCE!!!

[@CulturalCoalition]

Completely agree! The only thing being reference of past is the "Portal to the Past" Art installation which this festival is based off of and can visit the historical landmarks we help made at the Pueblo Grande Museum. We celebrate and honor the traditions and culture of today while also making sure our ancestors are honored.

[@frenchpizza9725]

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[@frenchpizza9725]

Creator made No mistake when he made Us. Apache and Cherokee Comanche Lakota

[@maggieredfeathercarrube6771]

Namaste ty home✌💃💀❤😇😎

[@shiverarts8284]

Gila river is mistreated often, sorry your river is being desecrated... Tó béé iína!!! Water is life