Join us as we bring awareness to Ocmulgee Mounds and the importance of creating Georgia's first National Park and Preserve.
2023 ONPPI Events
Celebrate the cultures of Southeastern Native Americans with an Indigenous film festival, art exhibit, benefit concert featuring the Indigo Girls….all culminating in the 31st Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration! All events are being held to bring awareness to Ocmulgee Mounds and the importance of creating Georgia's first National Park and Preserve - with the The Muscogee Nation serving as a co-manager to the ancestral homelands.
We appreciate your support, and invite you to come learn and rock out with us as we celebrate and protect our sacred sites.
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Ignite the Night Benefit Concert
Passion meets purpose! Join us for Ignite the Night — a benefit concert for ONPPI featuring the Indigo Girls and special guest Jontavious Willis!
With their unwavering dedication to indigenous and environmental causes, the Indigo Girls are the perfect advocates for our vision of Ocmulgee Mounds becoming Georgia's first National Park and Preserve.
Join us on September 16th at the Grand Opera House to experience the magic…and support a great cause.
September 14-16 | Grand Opera House & McEachern Art Center
Ocmulgee to Okmulgee: Art Exhibition
September 14-November 18 | McEachern Art Center
An exhibition presented by McEachern Art Center featuring Randy Kemp (Euchee/Muscogee/Choctaw) and Bobby C. Martin (Muscogee)
A look behind the lands, stories, and peoples that come from the flowing waters of the Ocmulgee to today’s Muscogee traditions, towns, and governments. Randy Kemp is a multidisciplinary artist whose body of work includes painting, printmaking, mixed media, installation, music and performance. His work includes both traditional tribal life and contemporary works concerning American Indian issues, themes and views. Bobby C. Martin is an artist/educator/facilitator who works out of his Martin Mountain Studio near West Siloam Springs, Oklahoma. His work began with family photographs, which has turned into countless re-imaginings as monumental paintings or tiny etchings, as drawings or installations and video projects.
Opening Artist Talk & Reception: Thursday, September 14 at 5PM
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 4-8PM
The show will run until November 18, 2023.
Fire Starters Indigenous Film Festival
Fire Starters Film Festival complements the power of the Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration on the other side of the river, siting downtown Macon as a place to contemplate contemporary culture in the Muscogee (Creek) homelands. This year’s inaugural festival will feature films, visual art and music made by Indigenous filmmakers. Fire Starters film screenings will take place at The Grand Opera House with visual arts displayed at Mercer’s downtown McEachern Art Center.
All proceeds will benefit the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative. More information to come on the films.
Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration
September 16-17 | Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
In celebration of Southeastern Native American cultures and heritage, Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park will host its 31st Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration September 16-17.
The celebration will feature traditional cultural crafts, storytelling, educational programs, live demonstrations, music and dance. Native American arts and crafts vendors will be selling their crafts as well as food. Rediscover the mounds and Earth Lodge, artifacts, trails and nature within the park.
September 16th | Doors Open 7PM | Grand Opera House