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Guest Curator Series

MEET THE CURATORS

2022-2023 and 2023-2024 Seasons
SHIRLETTE AMMONS

 

2024-2025 Season
ANDRE BOUCHARD

 

2025-2026 Season
ESRAA WARDA

Launched in 2022, the independent performing arts curator program brings new perspectives to the Moss Arts Center. The guest curator handpicks a selection of performances to be included in the center’s season.

In the 2024-2025 season, we welcome our second guest curator, Andre Bouchard (of Kootenai/Ojibwe/Pend d’Oreille/Salish descent), an activist, agent, director, producer, and consultant who was born and raised on the Flathead Reservation in western Montana.

Bouchard's selections this season include Voices from the Urban Indigenous Campfire on Indigenous Peoples’ Day in October, the Native Comedy Jam in February, and two nights with george emilio sanchez’s solo theatre work, In the Court of the Conqueror, in April.

2024-2025 Season

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    Conductor Steven Mercurio accepts applause from the audience, members of the Czech Symphony Orchestra surround him wearing concert attire.
    Native Comedy Jam , article

    SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 7 & 9 PM: Native Comedy Jam brings together three veteran comedians at the heart of today’s Native comedy resurgence. Join us for an evening of legendary laughter with Jim Ruel, Marc Yaffee, and Ernest Tsosie.

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    Playwright george emilio sanchez, a middle aged Indigenous man with long grey hair, wears a white button down shirt and lifts both hands in a near shrug, the projection of a desert tumbleweed behind and across him.
    george emilio sanchez , article

    THURSDAY, APRIL 24-FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 7:30 PM: Writer, performance artist, and social justice advocate george emilio sanchez confronts the ways the courts have historically diminished the tribal sovereignty of Native nations, juxtaposing this against his experiences navigating generational trauma and Indigenous identity.