Projects

YIPAP will host the 3rd annual Young Native Storytellers Festival from May 3rd - 5th.
April 27, 2018
This May 3-5th, 2018, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) will host its 3rd annual Young Native Storyteller Festival. The Festival features the work of this...
Sovereignty Set Design, Arena Stage; photo credit Cameron Whitman
February 15, 2018
On January 27, nearly a dozen members of the Native American Cultural Center community traveled with leaders of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program to Washington, D.C...
January 9, 2018
DeLanna Studi, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, visited Yale in early December at the invitation of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP). Studi is a prominent...
The Native American Cultural Center hosted a dinner and reception honoring Gloria Miguel and Muriel Miguel of Spiderwoman Theater
November 16, 2017
On November 7, 2017, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) brought Gloria Miguel and Muriel Miguel of Spiderwoman Theater to Yale’s campus. Together, Gloria and...
from left to right, the cast of Sliver of a Full Moon: RaeAnn Herrera, Kholan Studi, Jenny Marlowe, Jason Grasl, Billi Jo Rich, Allison Hicks, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Rob Vestal, Jackie Schaeffer, DeLanna Studi, Jennifer Bobiwash, Duane Minard, and Rainy Fields
November 7, 2017
On November 2, 2017, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) presented Sliver of a Full Moon at the University of California San Diego (“UCSD”) in partnership...
October 23, 2017
Sliver of a Full Moon by YIPAP’s Executive Director, Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee Nation), will be presented at the Arthur Wagner Theater, U.C. San Diego, on Thursday...
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
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...