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The Play Assimilation in Valdez Friday

Assimilation, a play by Alaska Native playwright Jack Dalton, will be presented at 7pm this Friday at the Valdez Civic Center Ballroom. Tickets are $15 and free for PWSCC, VHS and Valdez Native Tribe members. This play is for mature audiences about a boarding school run by Natives to assimilate White students into the Yup’ik culture. A discussion and “healing circle” will follow the performance.

BOARDING SCHOOL PLAY EVOKES POWERFUL REACTION FROM NATIVE FORMER STUDENTS

Alaska Dispatch- Jack Dalton’s play “Assimilation” made a powerful impression when it premiered in Anchorage five years ago. Dalton, best known for his comic interpretations of

 
Assimilation, a play by Alaska Native playwright Jack Dalton, will be presented at 7pm this Friday at the Valdez Civic Center Ballroom. Tickets are $15 and free for PWSCC, VHS and Valdez Native Tribe members. This play is for mature audiences about a boarding school run by Natives to assimilate White students into the Yup’ik culture. A discussion and “healing circle” will follow the performance. BOARDING SCHOOL PLAY EVOKES POWERFUL REACTION FROM NATIVE FORMER STUDENTS Alaska Dispatch- Jack Dalton’s play “Assimilation” made a powerful impression when it premiered in Anchorage five years ago. Dalton, best known for his comic interpretations of

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