Marquette is home to a thriving music community; a significant aspect of that success is the community-led music groups in the area. Moderator Brandy Thomas will lead a panel discussion with Dr. Erin Colwitz (Marquette Choral Society), Dr. Steve Grugin (Marquette City Band), and Adam Hall (Superior String Alliance) on community music and its impact.

In this talk, I would like to explore what a language is, when all the more-than-human-beings are also included, and what this means about indigenous languages. Then I am going to tell you why a genre of storytelling that has captured the hearts of many of our young people (video games) is a good place to tell the story about that place, the one with a cacophony of sounds. If you are still interested at this point, I will tell you about the wild ride I am having, making a video game with indigenous creatives.