Fairview Satellite: 'My Name is Sacagawea'
Share in story and song, as you meet the Native American who traveled with Lewis and Clark, journeying back to 1805. Then, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson had just bought 828,000 acres of land from Napoleon, Emperor of France. Jefferson spent $15 million – about 3 cents an acre – for the land that spread from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. This land doubled the size of the United States. He sent surveyors Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery to:
1. Map out this new territory
2. Establish trade with the native people there
3. Find a Northwest Passage waterway from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean
4. Document new plants and animals
5. Claim the Pacific Northwest and Oregon territory by establishing an American sovereignty
The Corps of Discovery traveled with 53 men and one woman with a baby. That woman was Sacagawea, who Robin Pease brings to life in this rich reenactment.
This event is part of the JES's USA 250 Event Series. JES Satellite Programming is sponsored by Erie Insurance.
Location: Lincoln Community Center Library – 1255 Manchester Road, Erie, PA 16505
Date/Time: Monday, July 13th, 6:00-7:30PM
Admission: FREE
Robin Pease, Artistic Director of www.kulturekids.org, joined WOMEN IN HISTORY in 2022. She has degrees in theatre: a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Berklee’s Boston Conservatory and a Master of Fine Arts from Case Western Reserve University. Robin has performed and taught drama/theatre, music, dance, literary arts and multiculturalism for people of all ages throughout the country. Pease has been the Director of Theater/Dance and instructor at several schools and institutes of higher learning, including Hiram College, Hawken School, Notre Dame College of Ohio, and Lakeland Community College. She has been the Artist-in-Residence at Hathaway Brown School and Laurel School, as well as for the New Jersey and Nebraska State Arts Councils, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Robin has presented for Arts Education Partnership, Kennedy Center, International Children’s Games, Cleveland Public Theatre, Corning Glass Museum, Carney Sandoe Diversity Conference, International Children’s Theatre Festival, Ohio PTA, New Jersey Arts Education Connect Conference, Cleveland Association for the Education of Young Children, India Festival USA, Walsh University, the Once Upon A Time Storytelling Conference, Cleveland Play House, Nonviolence Network and Artists for Peace, Cleveland State University Summer Institute, and the Initiative for Cultural Arts in Education.
She is on the roster of artists for Hartford Performs, the Center for Arts Inspired Learning, Ohio State-Based Collaborative Initiatives, Young Audiences: Massachusetts, Virginia and Connecticut. She is a consultant/teaching artist for Playhouse Square’s Department of Community Engagement and Education and MetroHealth Hospital’s Center for Arts in Health.
Robin has done performances for the Ohio Humanities Conference, Marilyn Bianchi Kids Playwriting Festival and directed for Brown Foundation and Washburn University. She has created a unique theatre program for autistic children with the Creative Education Institute, Co-Sponsored the Improv Olympics for High School students at The Cleveland Play House/Renaissance Theatre and the Aurora Pow Wow which featured Native American artists from all over the country.
Pease has received the Seth Rosenberg Award, the Cleveland Community Healer Award, the Young Audiences’ Sunshine Award, is listed in Who’s Who in America and was named by the National Storytelling Network an “emerging, under-appreciated and regional treasure storyteller.” Her Talkative Turtle And Other Tales has fans all over the world.
