The Indigenous Gulf Stream

a 24-hour biennial stream of thoughts, art, and media from the contemporary Indigenous Gulf South

midnight to midnight,

Nov 9, 2025

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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 created by Gulf South Indigenous creators to be shown in the stream.

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).

This year, we have collected 46 pieces made by 41 artists from 21 Indigenous groups.

This biennial is one of a longer series of pilot tests by Bvlbancha Public Access which has been supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place. In these tests, we are developing the 'Uke Contracting System consent policy to support communities who wish to maintain intellectual property rights and gain residual benefits from oral history recordings. The content featured in the stream has been licensed and compensated through this system.

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.

"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 is anything. We encourage experiments. It includes interview, art, information, or screenshots. 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.

Watch on Twitch

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Calendar Reminder

Here is a link to a calendar invite to add it to your feed

Calendar Reminder

Watch Parties

We partnered with physical locations who are screening portions or all of the stream within their location for the public to access. See below for locations and times.

Boston

MIT Welcome Center | 2-5 pm | Building E38, 292 Main St., Cambridge, MA 02142
North American Indian Center of Boston | 7-9 pm | 105 S. Huntington Ave., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Lafayette

Acadiana Center for the Arts | full 24 hours | 101 W Vermillion St., Lafayette, LA 70501
Maison Creole de Freetown | 2-5 pm | 800 East Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Louisiana 70501

New Orleans

Catapult | 1-3pm | 609 St Ferdinand St, New Orleans, LA 70117
Tulane University | 2-4 pm | Lake Residence Hall Theater, 33 McCalister Drive, New Orleans, LA 70118

Schedule

The stream takes place for 24 hours, from midnight to midnight. It begins at 12:00am CST, Sunday, Nov 9. This is the idea schedule for the stream. If there are any technical difficulties, this may change. We will try and keep it updated.

12:00 AM - 01:55 AM | BPA Poucha Houmma dramatic reading July 1, 2024 | by: Jean-Luc Pierite, Hali Dardar, and Ida Aronson

01:55 AM - 03:50 AM | Nu Alliance Project Presents: Pattern Recognition - January 28, 2025 | by: Nu Alliance Project

03:50 AM - 04:12 AM | Déja: Two-Spirit Interview | by: Déja Jones and Ida Aronson

04:12 AM - 05:06 AM | Jean-Luc: Two-Spirit Interview | by: Jean-Luc Pierite and Ida Aronson

05:06 AM - 05:45 AM | Flowers: Two-Spirit Interview | by: Flowers Darling and Ida Aronson

05:45 AM - 06:29 AM | Anah: Two-Spirit Interview | by: Anah Sahar and Ida Aronson

06:29 AM - 06:59 AM | Decompress | by: Hali Dardar and Flowers Darling

06:59 AM - 08:15 AM | 21st Century Indigenous Review: 20 Years of Gulf Coast Tribal Successes | by: The Helis Foundation John Scott Center, Hali Dardar, Monique Verdin, John DePriest, and Scierra LeGarde

08:15 AM - 09:31 AM | Kinship Connections | by: Lebekka Alãsẽ and Ida Aronson

09:31 AM - 09:34 AM | Pou Nô Zansèt | by: Zétwal Lamèr

09:34 AM - 11:21 AM | Indigenous Relations & Black Masking Indian-craft and Culture | by: Denice Smith and Hali Dardar

11:21 AM - 11:25 AM | Kinship - A Dance of Blood and Earth | by: Lilith Dorsey

11:25 AM - 12:23 PM | Verdin Family Interview | by: Brittany Verdin Jimenez and Hervin Verdin

12:23 PM - 12:27 PM | Part I: Alikchi | by: Chandra Leming

12:27 PM - 12:37 PM | Part II: Family | by: Chandra Leming

12:37 PM - 12:40 PM | Part III: Chukachafa | by: Chandra Leming

12:40 PM - 12:43 PM | Part IV: Bvnaha | by: Chandra Leming

12:43 PM - 02:11 PM | Reconnection & Worldbuilding Part 1 | by: Dane Verret and Hali Dardar

02:11 PM - 03:03 PM | Reconnection & Worldbuilding Part 2 | by: Dane Verret and Hali Dardar

03:03 PM - 03:13 PM | Chahta Blues | by: Flowers Darling

03:13 PM - 05:21 PM | HLP Collective Memory Work | by: Kurt Naquin, Dane Verret, Brittany Verdin Jimenez, and Ida Aronson

05:21 PM - 05:26 PM | Crow Memories | by: Rachel Billiot

05:26 PM - 06:10 PM | Babydolls Enthusiasm and Research | by: Jean-Luc Pierite and Kim Vaz DeVille

06:10 PM - 06:15 PM | Responding to Ideas of Tribal Erasure | by: Antonio Briones

06:15 PM - 07:18 PM | Indigenous Theatrical Endeavors | by: Jean-Luc Pierite and Carolyn Dunn

07:18 PM - 07:21 PM | Pishno Akkia | by: John DePriest

07:21 PM - 07:24 PM | Lauren Wark Honors Ned Romero | by: Lauren Wark

07:24 PM - 08:11 PM | Daniele Creole | by: Daniele Creole

08:11 PM - 08:14 PM | Alison McCrary | by: Alison McCrary

08:14 PM - 08:21 PM | Colonial Shoutout | by: Hali Dardar

08:21 PM - 08:23 PM | The House of Old Times | by: Jody Billiot and Georgie Ferguson

08:23 PM - 08:26 PM | Video Art Poems | by: Rain Prud'homme

08:26 PM - 08:34 PM | Nokushi Meli | by: Nokushi Meli (Luke Velasquez)

08:34 PM - 08:35 PM | Johnathan Zarraga | by: Johnathan Zarraga

08:35 PM - 08:42 PM | Poems for the Gulf Stream 2025 | by: Cynthia Russell

08:42 PM - 08:46 PM | Birth of a Nanih | by: Joseph Darensbourg

08:46 PM - 09:01 PM | Cane Splitting | by: Rose Fisher

09:01 PM - 09:03 PM | Alatosuwatani Hara | by: Elisabeth Pierite

09:03 PM - 09:03 PM | Keep Doin What You Do | by: Kirby Verret

09:03 PM - 09:15 PM | Basket Music | by: Virginia Richard

09:15 PM - 09:26 PM | Singing | by: Donna and Elisabeth Pierite

09:26 PM - 09:29 PM | Ernest Dardar "NeNess" | by: Jason Pitre

09:29 PM - 12:00 AM | Indigenous D&D featuring BPA + BLR | by: Brandon Keller, Ida Aronson, Koni Achafa, Jenna Mae, and Hali Dardar

Posters

Below are some text squares and posters. Feel free to print them out, or send them out digitally. If you really wanna get involved, you can take a look at the media kit below.

Media Kit