Frank Waln & Tanaya Winder to Perform at UW February 1, 2017

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Frank Waln and special guest Tanaya Winder will perform at the University of Wyoming Wednesday, February 1 at 8:00 p.m. in the lower level of the Wyoming Union hosted by Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Dialogue, 7220 Entertainment, and American Indian Studies. This event is free and open to the public.
Frank Waln is an award winning Sicangu Lakota Hip Hop artist, producer, and performer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship, Waln attended Columbia College Chicago where he received a BA in Audio Arts and Acoustics. Waln’s awards include three Native American Music Awards, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development 2014 Native American 40 Under 40, and the 2014 Chicago Mayor’s Award for Civic Engagement. He has been featured on Buzzfeed’s 12 Native Americans Who Are Making a Difference, USA Today, ESPN, and MTV’s Rebel Music Native America. Waln has written for various publications including Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society and The Guardian. Frank Waln travels the world spreading hope and inspiration through performance and workshops focusing on self-empowerment and the pursuit of dreams.
Tanaya Winder is a writer, educator, motivational speaker, and spoken word poet from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations. She grew up on the Southern Ute Indian reservation and attended college at Stanford University where she earned a BA in English. After college, she pursued her passion of poetry and received her graduate degree a MFA in creative writing from the University of New Mexico. Since then she has co-founded As/Us: A Space for Women of the World. Tanaya guest lectures, teaches creative writing workshops, and speaks at high schools, universities, and communities internationally.
For more information on Frank Waln and his music, visit his official website at http://frankwaln.com/. For more information on Tanaya Winder, view her TED Talk at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF1z5XHEMaM or follow her on Twitter @tanayawinder.
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For more information about Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Dialogue, visit http://www.uwyo.edu/studentaff/mlkdod/.
For more information on the American Indian Studies program, visit http://www.uwyo.edu/aist/.
Individuals needing assistance to attend events should contact the Campus Activities Center at (307) 766-6340.