2025 Indigenous
Gulf Stream

Kinship

is the theme of the 2025 Indigenous Gulf Stream (More Inspo Here).

Bvlancha Public Access is commissioning Gulf South Indigenous artists, creators, and thinkers to contribute content considering this topic through three open calls (View Open Calls).

About the Stream

The Indigenous Gulf Stream is a New Media biennial which celebrates contemporary Indigenous content in the Gulf South by licensing relevant and innovative interviews, art, and media to be shown in the stream (View Open Calls).

The commissioned content is assembled into a 24-hour public live stream. The stream will begin at midnight, and continue for the duration of Sunday, Nov 9th 2025. The event is free and can be accessed by anyone online. (Watch the Stream Here).

The project is nothing without the audience. We encourage you to consider tuning in at some point during that day to listen to the voices and stories. We really encourage you to do something you truly enjoy while listening - that could be making art, going for a walk, having a party, or hanging around with those you enjoy. We would love for you or your organizations to self-organize watch parties (Hosting a Watch Party).

"Gulf South Indigenous"

The event commissions members of Indigenous Gulf South communities (living locally or globally) and members of Turtle Island Indigenous communities currently living in and having a relation with the Gulf South to share art, music, sound, and media which celebrates their experiences, emotions, worldviews, interests, and thoughts.

"Content"

This content can be generally anything. We encourage experiments. The final submission format needs to be in a video format that can be easily added to a live stream queue. The content can something fresh that is created in response to this call, or it can also be any content which has been created since the last Indigenous Gulf Stream in November of 2023.

Open Calls

Brittany Jimenez-Verdin and family's TikTok Short (Link to Video)

What You Got - Stream Content Call

Applications Due Aug 30

We are seeking additional content commissions from today until August 30th. Through this open call, we are looking for any stuff you made that you think is neat.

In this call, we look for content that is already made, and is no more than two years old (made after November 2023). This could be artworks, talks, interviews, social media content, or generally stuff that is relevant to the moment. We pay $50 per piece licensed for the stream.

To send in content for this pool, email the file or a URL via email to bvlbanchapublicaccess [ a t ] gmail . com, along with a bit of writing or a video expressing your indigenous community relation, and why you think it should be in the stream. Put "Gulf Stream Content Call" in the subject line, and submit by Sunday, August 30th at 2pm Central Time.

Content Themometer

This is how much content we have for the stream, and how much we are still looking to fill. This is a live sheet that is up-to-date as we approve submissions.

If this is not at zero, please consider submitting content!

Host a Watch Party

The stream is free to watch and streamed online. This year, we would like to partner with physical locations along the Gulf South and beyond who will commit to screening portions or all of the stream within their location for the public to access.

We want to work with museums, libraries, community centers, non-profits, businesses, schools, institutions, and welcoming house parties.

We want to make a map of all the locations that people can watch the stream, and publish the map on this site to help people find places to watch.

We encourage screening locations to incorporate the stream into their daily activities in ways that are creative but natural to their mission and audience. We would love to co-advertize your screening locations, times, and para-programming.

If you are interested in partnering and putting your program on the map, reach out to us at bvlbanchapublicaccess@gmail.com with the subject line "Watch Party."