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Natasha Keating
Aotearoa/New Zealand

"Whakawhiti Te Moana / To Cross An Ocean"

Photos from the Preview Reception held Tuesday, September 26
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Rand Smith from the Douglas Society attended the Preview Reception of "Whakawhiti Te Moana / To Cross An
Ocean", works by Works by Maori artist Natasha Keating and he took a few photos at the event to share with
people.

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Proudly presents

TO CROSS AN OCEAN
Works by Natasha Keating
Preview Opening Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 5-9:00 p.m.
Exhibit September 27 - October 13, 2006
Native American Trading Company
213 West 13th Avenue, Denver, Colorado
303-534-0771 (call for hours)

A featured exhibit of the Third Annual Indigenous Film & Arts Festival

Both as a reference to her great ocean-voyaging ancestors and as a tracking of her journey to reach Denver, Colorado, Natasha Keating, a
Maori Artist from Aotearoa, New Zealand, brings her renderings of female effigies which act as silent memorials to the contemporary realities of
Maori / Indigenous women. Ms Keating brings 10 of her works for an exclusive Denver exhibit and sale. Her works are all on native New Zealand
re-cycled timber. They are various lengths, widths and weight but range from 1.5m long x 600mm wide to 800mm long x 400mm wide. They are
all to be hung on a wall, like paintings.

"I have always been interested in the way we are represented, the way non-Maori have captured our images through painting, through
photography, through caricature, through film, through tourist items etc. These images are often nostalgic, exotic, comical, sexualized, and of a
questionable reality. I often seek to re-claim those images and to re-populate the world with .- images of Maori women by a Maori woman. I hope
to— create silent, permanent memorials to our contemporary lives, loves and fears. The women I try to seek out from within the wood grain
visually articulate the pain and power that surviving 165 years of colonialism brings.
I am interested in the lessons and traditions of Maori Art and being able to contribute to a contemporary continuum of this. I look to our past in
order to understand the present and therefore be able to participate in the future. I am excited about this opportunity of sharing my artwork and
culture with the Denver community. " Natasha Keating.

Thanks to our Sponsors & Partners:
THE SOUTHERN UTE INDIAN TRIBE
TOWNEPLACE SUITES BY MARRIOTT
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INDIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
TE WAKA Toi (CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND)
For additional information contact the Institute at 303-744-9686; E-mail: iiirm@iiirm.org; Website: www.iiirm.org
Jeanne Rubin (RIGHT) with INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT doing introductions.
(Jeanne is the Film Festival's director)
The artist Natasha Keating and her son. She gave a nice talk on her background and her work.
There is a definite beauty and incredible delicacy
to her work. It is mostly pencil drawing on
recycled native wood with some pigment added.

I talked to her briefly about her work and she told
me that she doesn't really consider herself a good
drawer. She said she isn't good at just sitting
down and drawing a horse for instance. She loves
to draw faces and she says it takes a great deal
of time and she isn't happy until the face is
expressing exactly what it should be.

The expressions on the faces of her work are
incredible, I loved them!
I also had the pleasure to meet and talk with filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean who has 2 short films in this year's Indigenous Film & Arts Festival.
Andrew also was a part of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
(photo source)

The 2 films that will be in this year's Denver Indigenous Film Festival are:

Kinnai/ Nigaqtuqtuaq (The Snaring Madman).
Director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean. Inspired by a traditional Inuit legend, this is the story of a hungry cannibal who hunts a young woman through the
streets of downtown Manhattan, as she, in turn, stalks her estranged lover. As his strength wanes and her mind deteriorates, they are drawn into an
unlikely union. A Colorado premiere. Post-screening Q&A with director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean. (Kiuguya Productions, 2004, 13 min.)

Natchiliag'niaqtuguk Aapagalu (Seal Hunting with Dad).
Director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean. Inupiat hunter Carl Kippi teaches his 14 year old son Jordan to hunt seal off the northern coast of Alaska. Carl
knows that even in this age of fast food and cable television it is important that his sons learn to hunt. Through a long day of hunting they deal with
extreme cold, the elusiveness of their prey and the universal challenge of communicating across generations. A Colorado premiere. Post-screening Q&A
with director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean. (Kiuguya Productions, 2004, 11 min.)

"Andrew Okpeaha MacLean has worked extensively in both theatre and film, serving as the Artistic Director for the Stickfigure Productions Theatre
Company and Co-Founding and Co-artistic Directing the Inupiat Theater. He also dramaturged and performed in Perseverance Theater's production of
Moby Dick, and directed and performed in Illiapaglu Tulukkaglu at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention. He has spent time traveling in North and
South America and worked in Siberia as a biological research assistant. Andrew's films include Such a Perfect Day, Natchiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu (Seal
Hunting With Dad), and Kinnaq Nigaqtuqtuaq (The Snaring Madman). He is a videographer for the Alaska Native Education Program and a 2003-2004
Martin E. Segal prize recipient. His career as a filmmaker has grown from the love of telling stories and the inspiration he finds in film directors like Akira
Kurosawa and Stanley Kubrick, theater directors such as Bertolt Brecht and Robert Wilson, and traditional Inupiat storytellers, Elijah Kakinya and Simon
Paneak. He is pursing his MFA at NYU." (Source)

International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management
presents the...

3rd ANNUAL DENVER INDIGENOUS FILM FESTIVAL
Places: The Relationship Between Indigenous Peoples and the Land and Water

CLICK HERE to see the list of films and get a link to the film festival's website with additional information!
Natasha ended her talk with a traditional Maori song. If you have a high
speed Internet connection, click the play arrow to view and hear it.
(I only was able to record a small portion of it)

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