Event

Mangled Beams

"Mangled Beams" is a new play by Native American playwright, Dawn Jamieson (Cayuga), Directed by Christen Omantra Callahan.

Rather than one mans quest for meaning, "Mangled Beams" is a play about A People. It's the first play about the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) high beam walkers involvement in the cleanup at Ground Zero after 9/11. As four men wait for work at the union hall miles from their home and families, they themselves are like mangled beams. Then the unimaginable happens. Unable to turn their backs on the tragedy, they go to work on the search and rescue effort - untangling beams while they reclaim their identity and find personal redemption.

Produced By:
American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA), established in 1987, is a community-based multi-arts organization that works to empower Native Americans, break down barriers and foster intercultural understanding and appreciation for Native culture through its arts programs and services to individual artists. AMERINDAs mission is to promote the indigenous perspective in the arts to a broad audience through the creation of new work in contemporary art formsvisual, performing, literary and media.

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