Educational Programs,
Partnerships and Out Reach
Educational Outreach
ECSIUT-Cultural Arts Ensemble
( Photo at Clemson University)
Date: 11/27/01
The Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois & United Tribes of South Carolina
Cultural Arts Ensemble is an Approved Artist on the South Carolina Arts
Commission "Artist Roster" for 2001-2004
Performance & Educational Programs Available
Will Moreau & the Eastern Cherokee Southern Iroquois & United Tribes of South Carolina, Inc. Cultural Arts Ensemble is a colorful collage of Native American Indian dancers, singers, and performers who use music, poetry, legend, movement, visual imagery and drums to tell an ancient and contemporary story of the American Indian.
Each performance is adjusted to the specific age group and facility requirements. For some performances only one performer will go out to the venue and for other performances multiple dancers will go out to facilitate and perform. Many times this is reliant on budget restraints and travel costs.
From preschool to university students their presentation entertains and informs the audience. Their presentation can be a multimedia event with projected slide images onto a darkened stage’s scrim or a down-to-earth Stomp Dance on the school gymnasium floor or on Mother Earth.
Native American Culture, American History, and Archaeology are the topics of the presentations which we do for schools. Any school or group wanting to schedule a lecture, performance, or outreach activity for the can contact the Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois, and United Tribes of South Carolina, Inc.-Cultural Arts Ensemble, which provides educational programs for children & Adults (hands-on programs using artifacts, designed to encourage pride of heritage in students grades 3 through 12, and College or University students, Civic organizations and family audiences.
We have educational programs and curriculum guides for teachers to help the integrate Native American culture, ancient and contemporary, archaeology into their science, math, or social studies program; educational programs for children and adults (artifact identification programs, slide/speaker programs and lectures on South Carolina folkways and history, as well as site specific programs.)
All programs Costs are negotiable and designed for the specific audience. Most of these programs and opportunities are available for a nominal fee which includes transportation from Columbia and possible honorarium.
The varied programs offered include talks, exhibits, demonstrations, storytelling, and artifact identification.
Contact:
Native Talent, Inc. (a project of the ECSIUT)
Dr. Will Moreau Goins
P. O. Box 7062,
Columbia, SC 29202,
(803) 699-0446
Taygoinres@aol.com
References Available Upon Request
FOR BOOKING INFORMATION : Call (803)-699-0446
Artistic Residencies for Native Arts,
Artifacts and Craft Demonstrations
Full-length Concerts of Native Song and Dance
One Person Shows
Family Shows
Educational & Academic presentations and Lectures
Exhibitions of Native Arts, artifacts, folkways, Fine art and items!
The South Carolina Arts Commission’s Roster of Approved Artists is an
extensive list of artists in many disciplines who are available to sponsors.
Those who apply for inclusion on the Roster must pass a peer-panel review or
meet alternative criteria. Artists who pass the review acquire a two-year
approval period and must be available to serve in arts education programs in
South Carolina. Artists are approved for two years. Information on approved
artists and ensembles is placed on file and in a dedicated database.
Sponsors
who receive grants for the use of artists have access to these files. Arts
in Education (AIE) grantees MUST use only approved artists from the Roster
for residencies funded by SCAC. Artists should not expect approval alone to
generate offers of work from AIE grantees and are encouraged to approach AIE
grantees to negotiate contractual agreements.
The SCAC Roster of Approved
Artists is a list of artists in all
genres who have been approved for artistic quality through an independent
panel process. Schools and other venues in South Carolina which are funded
through the SCAC Arts in Education
(AIE) grant, must employ artists from the Approved Artists’ Roster for
artist residencies and performances in their programs. Artists on the
Roster are expected to be available to work in schools for some portion of
the school year, or at the very least, be available to work in summer
programs.
Approved artists who do not work in AIE programs for two years are removed
from the Roster. Requests for information regarding residencies contracted
and changes in address, status, and availability are sent by SCAC on a
regular basis. The contract between a sponsor and an approved artist
constitutes proof of work and gives the artist a two-year renewal. The
artist (not SCAC or the sponsor) is responsible for providing and verifying
the contract.
AIE sponsors contract directly with approved artists. Fees are established
by SCAC and are subject to availability of funding.
The current fee structure and residency details can be found in the AIE
Program Guidelines at
www.state.sc.us/arts/grants/aie/aieover.html.
Adjustments to the standard residency week may be
made ONLY if agreeable to both artist and sponsor and must be made in
advance in writing. Approved artists are considered self-employed
contractors and are responsible for room, board, and transportation, etc.
Approved artists are responsible for payment of applicable income taxes.
Most sponsors do not withhold taxes. IRS "1099" statements are sent by
sponsors, not by SCAC.
Some programs which use Roster artists:
SCAC
Arts In Education Program (AEI) places artists approved in Visual,
Literary and Media arts, Dance, Music and Drama in educational settings for
residencies of one or more weeks. Artists may be contracted for shorter
periods of time, according to the needs of the sponsoring organization.
Teaching techniques and materials are geared toward the age and ability
level of the students. A typical residency week includes twenty classes, a
teacher workshop, and a community service.
Artists in Communities provides arts programming in community settings
through artist residencies in all disciplines. The guiding principle of this
program is that the arts help build and strengthen communities and that the
experience of the arts should be available to people of all ages.
SCAC Arts in the Basic
Curriculum Program (ABC) is designed to make art a basic component in
the curriculum of South Carolina schools so that every child may have access
to a comprehensive, sequential education in the arts. Approved artists may
have limited opportunities to work in these programs as curriculum
consultants and instructors. Artists interested in working as consultants
should contact the ABC Project Coordinator at Winthrop University,
803-323-2451 or 800-277-0036.
SCAC Media Arts in Education Program places media artists at sites for
residencies and provides activities, such as hands-on Super-8 film and video
production, film study, a school film festival, and teacher training
workshops. When available, film and video equipment is provided free to
artists by the SCAC Media Arts Center.
SCAC Rural
Arts Program is designed to help plan and fund arts events and
performances in rural communities. This program gives community leaders the
opportunity to plan arts projects, such as performances by professional
dancers or musicians and classes in the visual arts and crafts.
State
Department of Education Programs (require teacher certification or SCAC
Roster Approval) Gifted and Talented Programs place a limited number of
artists in dance, music, drama, crafts, and visual arts in schools
throughout the state to work with students gifted in one of these media.
Target 2000 Arts in Education Grants Program supports Arts in Basic
Curriculum (ABC) related projects in schools throughout the state. As in the
ABC Program, artists may have opportunities to work as curriculum
consultants and instructors in these programs.
Partnerships, Activities
& Projects
Mental Health Teleconference
Partnership with the South Carolina
Department of Mental Health, Multi-Cultural Office
The 2000 United States Census
Project
Partnership with the Governor's Office
and the Minority Undercount Committee, The Hispanic Outreach Inc., the
Nationa Negro Women's Association and the AKA Sorority.
The South Carolina Observance of
the National Native American Indian Heritage Month.
The Native American Indian
Leadership Summit-2001
Partnership with the National Trust
for Historic Preservation,
December 8, 2001, Columbia South
Carolina
This will be the first time in the
history of South Carolina that ALL American Indian communities will be
gathered in the State Capitol to discuss the important issues of historic
preservation, historic real estate development, fund raising for historic
preservation, building rehabilitation, developing State-wide curriculum on
ethnic heritage for school children, and revitalization of historic Native
American neighborhoods and communities.
Estimated 50 representatives from 15
Native American groups/organizations. The project’s purpose is to
provide the Native American leaders and their representatives from the
various Indian communities with training and information about preservation
of Native American historic sites, structures
and buildings in South Carolina specific.
This leadership summit will provide information on various ways to promote
sites associated with Native American Indian history in South Carolina and
how to obtain funding for historic preservation projects involving these
sites and Native American folkways and culture.
This Native American leaders summit
will also include discussions and workshop sessions on “How the Native
American Indians can place State Historic Markers in their neighborhoodsand
communities;” “How to preserve historic buildings and put Native
places on the National Historic Register;” “How to begin to do heritage
tourism in their American Indian communities” and “How to seek grants for
State and Federal funding sources that are available for the various
purposes of revitalization, renovating and preserving historic
places.” This will be the first gathering dealing with
Historic Preservation for Native American
Indians in the state of South Carolina. This will be an important and
historic conference that will just be a beginning for Native American Indian
Historic preservation in South Carolina. The South Carolina American Indian
Leadership Summit--2001 will also teach the Native American Indian leaders
how to begin to identify and recognize important Native American Indian
sites in South Carolina.
We hope that this Summit will inspire
the Native leaders to leave with a better understanding of the many things
that they and their American Indian communitycan do in Historic
preservation, potential Historic Marker identification, information
about funding sources for economic development, fundraising forhistoric
preservation, neighborhood revitalization and heritage tourism
andinformation for small business /entrepreneurial efforts in the American
Indian communities. Hopefully, the Leaders will leave with a listing of
potentialbusiness plans, fundraising and preservation plans.
Outcomes from this Native American
Summit include compiling a position paper and listing of State-wide sites
and locations for historic preservation and a strategic plan for Native
American sites, building rehabilitation, historic neighborhood
revitalization, historic markers.
Cooperating and participating
organizations:
South Carolina Minority Affairs
Commission, The Governor’s Native American Indian Taskforce, South
CarolinaMinority Business, South CarolinaDepartment of Parks, Recreation &
Tourism
“Touring the South Carolina Native
American Indian Festivals, Historic Sites, Communities, and Reservations,”
( published --November 2001)
ThisTour Guide is a Partnership with
the South Carolina Department of Travel & Tourism and Parks and Receration.
It will bring together all Native American Indian festivals, historic
communities,sites, monuments, historic landmarks and events into one
publication. This will be the first time that All Indian communities
will be included. Although there are many similarities with regards to the
Festivals, Powwows, historic landmarks,etc., it important to realize that
each tribal community does have its own distinct and special features,
culture, history and region that is unique toit’s specific tribal
community.
The South Carolina Institute for
Community Scholars in the Traditional Arts
Sponsored by the South Carolina Arts
Commission and ECSIUT in Parternership with the South Carolina Traditional
Arts Network. A founding member of the organization
Representatives: In 1997 Ms. Dorothy
Taylor, folklorist, and
weaver. In 2001, Ms. Vedia Counts.
Episcopal Church Conference at
Myrtle Beach
ECSIUT Partnered with the Trinity
Episcopal Church, Friends of Navajo Land, Navajo "Dine" Indian
Reservation, For a four day Conference about Native American Spirituality.
Human Rights /Civil Rights
Projects
Partnership with the Southern Human
Rights Organizer's Network, Progressive Network of South Carolina,
Collaborative for Community Trust , Amnesty International, South Carolina's
Civil Liberties Union, National Center for Human Rights Education.
Native American Indian Woman Awards
Recipiants: Grace Lowery, Dr.
Bernice Guillaume, Elsie T. Goins, Felicia Taylor, Ms. Mordella Good
ShielMcKinney, and Ms. Vedia Counts
Native American Honored by Governor,
May 14, 2001-- ECSIUT officer and Board Member, Dr. Felicia L. Goins, First
American Indian to be Honored by the
Governor.
Click here:
South Carolina Governor's Commission on Women
Native American Indian Prison
Project
NCAI Resolution, American Indian
Freedom of Religion ACT
The Governor's South Carolina
Native American Ad Hoc Task Force
Founding Member organization,
Voting Member.
Issues:
1. State Recognition
2. Native American Indian Officer and or
the re-establishment of the Palmeto Native American Indian Affairs
Commission.
3. Native American Indian Religious Freedom.
4. Repatriation of Native American Indian
ancestors, burial
artifacts, and sacred items.
Partnership with the South Carolina
Minority Affairs Commission
South Carolina Native American
Voices
Partnership with the South Carolina
Humanities Council ( to be published in 2002) Writing Workshops
will be conducted and writing samples will be collected and reviewed, edited
and selected for this publication by a panel of Academics, Professionals,
Native Americans, and the Workshop Facilitator Author and Poet Marijo Moore.
The Book will be published by Winter 2002.
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