October 21, 2023, brings the annual Malki Museum Fall Gathering, and just look at this scheduled afternoon workshop, “Make Jewelry Using the Original Pump Drill.”
Food, music, hands-on demos, info, and this exciting workshop add up to a Malki Fall Gathering overflowing with the saving and sharing of Native American cultural ways that are traditional and contemporary. Event details are at malkimuseum.org.
Blossom Maciel displayed these acorns in a native plant exhibit at the April 2023 agave gathering, along with a basket woven by her mother, Lorene Sisquoc. (Pat Murkland Photo)
If you are non-Native, the Fall Gathering is a positive and accurate way of learning more about Native American cultures, helping save and share these cultures, and connecting in greater understanding with our local Native American homelands and people.
If you are Native, the foods, the tools, the hands-on learning help link with the ancestors, and in ancestral wisdom, find relevance and resiliency in living culturally in 2023. Using a pump drill to make jewelry is one creative way to call in the ancestors.
Upcoming Workshops!
Creativity opens doors to greater understanding of the relevance of the past. Watch here at News from Dorothy Ramon Learning Center for news about an upcoming Dorothy Ramon Learning Center collaborative workshop series (via zoom and in person) with the Morongo Empowerment Program, and Dr. Renda Madrigal (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), that teaches and draws on circle practice and other Native traditions to connect culturally with spirit, nature, and people.
This Sunday! October 22, 2023
And in the spirit of creativity, Dorothy Ramon Learning Center and Inlandia Institute invite you to our special Fourth Sunday concert:
It started with Dan Bernstein getting his first blat out of a trombone in fourth grade.
Now in his 70s, the beloved, retired newspaper columnist from Riverside still plays his ax — still for little or no money at all. Join Bernstein for a fun, uplifting, musical afternoon at Dorothy Ramon Learning Center Gathering Hall, 127 N. San Gorgonio Ave., Banning at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023, as he shares his music, memories, and new book.
He Kept His Day Job: Fanfare for the Common Musician takes us on Bernstein’s lifelong musical joy ride through bumpy, challenging, and exhilarating terrain. In the Fourth Sunday concert, he’ll share some of his music along with humorous and heartwarming memories.
“Though just one small story, this ‘Fanfare for the Common Musician’ is meant to be contagious,” Bernstein says, “inspiring young musicians to keep playing, and adults, particularly those with day jobs, to take their instruments, tap shoes, and paint brushes out of the attic, and fall in love all over again.”
The concert will be followed by a reception and book-signing. Books will be available for sale.
Your $10 helps the 501c3 nonprofit Dorothy Ramon Learning Center save and share Southern California Native American cultures.
As Dorothy Ramon Learning Center vice president June Siva writes, “Our 4th Sunday Concert Series has turned into an occasional 4th Sunday concert series since COVID. But we have a big one coming up. I'm sure most of you remember reading Dan Bernstein's columns in the Press-Enterprise, we certainly do!
“Well Dan is also a trombone player! He will bring his trombone and share an afternoon of music and memories! We (June and Ernest Siva) both love his book about his trombone playing, He Kept His Day Job, and plan to have him sign our copy at the concert.”
Hope to see you there!
Music is still Ernest Siva’s Day Job
And thanks for supporting the 501c3 nonprofit Dorothy Ramon Learning Center, led by Elder Ernest Siva (Cahuilla-Serrano) (Music is still his day job!), as we continue our 20th year of saving and sharing Southern California Native American cultures, languages, history, and traditional arts. And as always, thanks from Center leaders Ernest and June Siva and Editor Pat Murkland for enjoying News from Dorothy Ramon Learning Center, your FREE online weekly newsletter. We love to hear from you. PLEASE EMAIL. October 18, 2023.