WEEKEND: Film on Peninsula College Longhouse to premiere tonight
Published 12:01 am Friday, November 7, 2014
PORT ANGELES — The story of how members of six area Native American tribes and Peninsula College officials together built a campus longhouse is told in “House of Learning,” a documentary film to premiere tonight.
Tickets to the 7 p.m. screening are $10 at www.BrownPaperTickets.com and, if still available, at the door of the Little Theater at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Roger Fernandes, a Lower Elwha Klallam artist, storyteller and culture keeper, will serve as the event’s master of ceremonies, while Jamestown S’Klallam elder Elaine Grinnell will speak. Others connected to the longhouse’s creation also will join in the festivities, and longhouse tours will be available.
The building, on the southwest side of campus, opened its doors in October 2007 as the first Native American longhouse at a U.S. community college.
It has since served as a venue for public classes, conferences, drum and dance circles, and other activities. It also houses a Native American art gallery.
For information about reserving the longhouse for an event, phone 360-417-7992 or email Longhouse@pencol.edu.
For details about tonight’s film premiere, phone 360-417-6345.
