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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.
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.
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.
Our webhost does not allow Twitch embeds, so you must click the button below to go to our Twitch page to watch the stream.
Here is a link to a calendar invite to add it to your feed
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place
Jenna Mae as the Wrangler
Jean-Luc Pierite on Sponsorship
Ida Aronson on Firekeeper
Cynthia Russell on Comms
Hali Dardar in Project Management
Denice Smith
Hervin Verdin
Lebekka Alãsẽ
Kim Vaz DeVille
Brandon Keller
Antonio Briones III
Lauren Wark
Daniele Creole
Georgie Ferguson
Rain Prud'homme
Nokushi Meli
Virginia Richard
Kirby Verret
Nu Alliance Project: a partnership of Bvlbancha Public Access, Dillard University,
and the The New Orleans Foundation for Francophone Culture
Poucha Houmma project