Projects

YIPAP Executive Director joins Kauanoe Hoomanawanui and Deborah Lee (descendants of former FMS student Henry Ōpūkaha’ia) at the home of Ben Silliman Gray, current owner of the Foreign Mission School Steward’s former home in Cornwall, Connecticut

YIPAP Commemorates 200th Anniversary of Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut

May 10, 2017
Cornwall, Connecticut:  On June 17 and 18, 2017, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP), alongside the residents of Cornwall, Connecticut, will commemorate the...
Reed Adair Bobroff, Cole Richards, and Kinsale Hueston perform Dillon Chitto’s new play, Bingo Hall

Second Annual YIPAP Youth Storytelling Festival Brings Packed House to its Feet

April 28, 2017
This past Saturday, April 22, 2017, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) presented the Second Annual Youth Native Storyteller Festival, featuring award-winning...

New Native Theatre and Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) Announce New Partnership to Support Native Theater Makers

April 4, 2017
(Minneapolis, MN and New Haven, CT) New Native Theatre (NNT) and the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) announce the beginning of a strategic partnership through...

YIPAP Members Visit Pu‘ukohola Heaiu and Henry Opukaha‘ia’s Gravesite

March 29, 2017
Fourteen members of the Native American Cultural Center and Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program began their Spring 2017 Hawaiian Cultural Exchange being welcomed and...
YIPAP Director’s Newest Play Fairly Traceable Reviewed in “American Theatre: A Publication of Theatre Communications Group”

YIPAP Director’s Newest Play Fairly Traceable Reviewed in “American Theatre: A Publication of Theatre Communications Group”

March 23, 2017
It’s been a busy year for Mary Kathryn Nagle, the Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP). In addition to over-seeing YIPAP’s continued...

Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Travels to Cornwall, Connecticut

January 30, 2017
  On January 21, 2017, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) made a special trip to Cornwall, Connecticut, to visit the site of a boarding school where...

Yale Native Storytellers Contest

November 15, 2016
Contest Description: The 2nd Annual Yale Native Storytellers Contest is sponsored by the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program to showcase the breadth of storytelling by...