Projects

February 19, 2019
On Tuesday, March 5, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program will welcome nationally acclaimed poet and playwright Joy Harjo (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) to Yale University’...
December 14, 2018
5-Minutes of History and 55-Minutes of Action: Building Engagement for American Indian Theater. On November 9, 2018, the Stanford Department of Theater and Performance...
December 5, 2018
The 4th Annual Yale Young Native Storytellers Contest is sponsored by the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program to showcase the breadth of storytelling by emerging and...
The winners of the Third Annual Yale Young Native Storyteller Contest (from left to right): Charlize Arcoren (Sicangu Lakota), Teanna Hart (Sicangu Lakota), Zooey White (Ogalala Lakota), Vonica LaPlante (MHA Nation), Everett George (Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe), and YIPAP’s Associate Director Reed Adair Bobroff (Navajo Nation).
May 24, 2018
(Yale University, New Haven, CT) This year’s Third Annual Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program’s (“YIPAP”) Young Native Storyteller Festival was a resounding success full...
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...