January-April & Ocotber-December 2019

Concert Series

Indigenous Solutions/ IndigenousWays

1020 Valerie Circle, Santa Fe, NM 87507

 OR Institute of American Indian Arts, Hogan

 83 A Van Nu Po, Santa Fe, NM 87508

Supporting local, national & international artists

Indigenous Solutions/IndigenousWays has the pleasure of hosting a genre of artists, musicians & healers in a house concert setting to share their work and art with the community.

Suggested donation at the doors, open at 2pm. We provide nibbles & refreshments. Opening ceremony/prayer is at 3pm. Concert starts at 3.20-6pm.

Art and Music Workshops

National & international

Music and arts education help carry all cultures and benefit all societies.  Indigenous Solutions/IndigenousWays  workshops consist of encouraging the creative process and leaving sustainable seeds upon our departure. Indigenous Solutions/IndigenousWays facilitates art and music educational programs in remote Native American schools and communities. We partner with local teachers who are desperate for such support. Our most recent project in Pinon, Arizona, brought together two hundred community members to draw on small canvas tiles and create a community mural describing their history and culture. We also brought Pinon a special art, music and film (digital story telling) program for middle school students. Our workshops fill an educational vacuum with a thrilling experience of art and music.

Music in Detention Centers and Penitentiaries

Local, national, and international

Life within the walls of our institutions can be dismal and bleak.

Indigenous Solutions/IndigenousWays and with the help of local advocates, we regularly perform in local, regional, national and even international Detention Centers, jails and penitentiaries. In the grey cold of such institutions, we are able to bring the warmth and joy of indigenous music, encouraging those without hope to have courage. On occasions, we’ve taken other musicians into these institutions as well!

ASL Interpreters

Local and national concerts

We bring our message to our Deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences, and to those who enjoy the grace and beauty of American Sign Language interpreting at our performances.

Music at the Aged Care Facility

Local and national

One of the most distinctive of Indigenous Solutions'/IndigenousWays' programs is our “Aged Care Facility” outreach. We bring music into remote Native American aged care facilities where we greet our elderly and thank their caregivers.

When we sing our traditional songs within hearing of the residents, most of whom are Navajo, faded eyes light up and broad smiles crease well-tanned faces. Sacred hands may clap an ancient rhythm. Our music reminds our elders that they are the most sacred members of our communities, living legends who carry the oral history of our people.

Healing Arts Festival

2018 Indigenous Solutions Festival

Indigenous Solutions/IndigenousWays in partnership with the Navajo Nation hosted their inaugural festival which supported local indigenous artists, musicians and businesses in Chinle, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation, on August, 11th 2018. Indigenous Solutions/IndigenousWays looks forward to showcasing both emerging and professional artists to come together with the community to engage and initiate intergenerational conversations and acknowledge our past so we can move towards a more whole and inclusive future.

 Festivals

2019 Indigenous Solutions / IndigenousWays Festival

Indigenous Solutions'/IndigenousWays' vision is to create awareness and global support for indigenous communities, including LGBTQIA2+ by utilizing music, the arts, and indigenous wisdom as well as supporting and building strong sustainable communities.

Indigenous Solutions/IndigenousWays is committed to plan and fund raise for the second Indigenous Solutions Festival in Tsaile, Arizona in September 2019.

Indigenous Solutions/IndigenousWays currently planning the 2019 Indigenous Solutions / IndigenousWays Festival in partnership with Tewa Women United and the Institute of American Indian Arts.