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After Hours: Star Seeds
Saturday | September 23, 2023 | 7:00 pm–10:30 pm
Join Bell Museum resident artist Missy Whiteman for an evening of Expanded Cinema at the Bell. Whiteman’s Expanded Cinema programming focuses on community to put cinema in context. The evening will include performance, dance, and celestial arts activities including a special planetarium show, the centerpiece of Whiteman’s residency at the Bell. Our galleries and the Touch and See Lab will be open. If the weather is good, telescopes will be available for viewing the night sky. (If we have rain or cloudy skies, telescopes won’t be available—but there will be plenty to do and see inside!)
Whiteman will show her new work, Star Seeds: We Are The Star Nation in the Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium. Created with co-producer Darren Alexander Cole during a 4 month residency at the Bell, this is a cinematic experience that includes 360 video, animation, virtual reality, and healing sound frequencies. The narrative centers on planetary movements of the Pleiades constellation, ancestral star knowledge, traditional stories, and DNA cellular memory of the Arapaho, Dakota, and Anishinaabe star knowledge, plant stories, and cellular memory. This video is about 20 min long and is suitable for all ages.
Entry to Star Seeds is first come, first served and is included in museum admission. Screenings will occur throughout the evening. Advance museum admission tickets are available but not required—they do not guarantee entry to Star Seeds. We encourage you to arrive early to secure a ticket to this special show.
The Bell Museum offers free admission to all Indigenous people. Read more about the policy at the link below.
The Bell Museum is committed to serving all Minnesotans and will never turn away visitors due to their ability to pay.
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Please note: Visitors with free or discounted passes, or who qualify for complimentary admissions, can call 612-626-9660 to reserve your tickets or reserve them at the museum.
About Missy Whiteman
Missy Whiteman (Northern Arapaho and Kickapoo) is an Emmy nominated writer, director, producer, interdisciplinary publiX artist and curator. Whiteman understands her work to be a voice for her ancestors’ stories, ancestral wisdom, and practice of art as ceremony.
While based in traditional knowledge, Missy’s work also addresses themes of historical genocide, colonization and healing though creative process.
Fellowships: 2021-22 Sundance Interdisciplinary: Art of Practice Fellow, 2021-22 Hennepin Theater Trust Digital Public Arts cohort, 2020 Media Arts McKnight and 2020 Forecast Public Art Mid-Career fellow. Her film The Coyote Way: Going Back Home was supported by Sundance Native Lab and Jerome Grant.
Missy’s guests include hoop dancer Lumhe “Micco” Sampson (Seneca Nation/Mvskoke), aerialist Josephine Hoffman (Grand Portage Ojibwe), and Migizi Communications, which will be supporting a VR presentation of Whiteman’s work The Coyote Way.
Bell Museum resident artist research projects are made possible in part thanks to the generous support provided by the McKnight Foundation.
Star Seeds: We are the Star Nation is a production in partnership with Independent Indigenous Film and Media (IIFM), Film North, and MIGIZI.