MEMORY KEEPERS INITIATIVE

featuring GREG SARRIS & JANE CIABATTARI

FEB 20, 2025 @ 7:30pm

Author Greg Sarris, who serves as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, dives into his latest novel The Forgetters—a tender, astonishing, and richly beautiful story cycle about remembering our shared histories and repairing the world. In conversation with fellow author and cultural critic Jane Ciabattari, Sarris will share excerpts from his novel, featuring unforgettable characters in search of a crucial lesson from their past that will help them repair the rifts in their own lives, told in the classic style of Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok creation stories. Greg Sarris has navigated many identities and cultural spheres, as a gay man, born of a German Jewish mother, a southern Pomo/Coast Miwok/Filipino father, as a tribal leader, a professor, a screenwriter, co-producer, always as a storyteller, with books of nonfiction and fiction. Sarris will also recount his journey through academia, literature and film to the highest levels of leadership in his tribe and his community, as well as serving on the UC Board of Regents and as board chair of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

FEATURED ARTISTS

GREG SARRIS - Author and Speaker
JANE CIABATTARI - Interviewer