Theater
The 1970s were a time of reevaluating social values and considering appropriate modes for long term existence in particular life-places (bioregions.) In California, the first peoples had dynamic interactive relationships with all aspects of the ecology; Europeans brought industrial ecological exploitation for gold and other “resources.” As people began redicovering non-industrial ways to relate to each other and the places they lived, reinhabitory considerations emerged. […]
Here are two reviews of “Not For Tourists,” the roadshow Planet Drum Foundation put together for the drive to and from San Francisco to the Ozarks to attend the First North American Bioregional Congress. The show was performed a number of times and places. We have uncovered two reviews of the show, one from San Antonio TX on our way to the Congress and one […]
This is an improvisation guide for performing stories that come specifically from native northern California Pomo. Maidu, Karok and Pit River tribal traditions. The “coyote stories” feature human/animal characters and were told around fires during the rainy winter months for both entertainment and philosophical reference to human and planet events. * * * The stories embody multi-species consciousness; human beings as such don’t have to […]