Geri Keams

Sierra Storytelling Festival 2009

I’ll be sending you my favorite photo from the Rose Bowl floats tomorrow. I’ve been sooo busy this fall I haven’t been staying in touch as much as I’d like. I’m hoping to do better this coming year. Workshops and performances shaping up for this year. Big changes for artists in [...]

It’s been a long summer and ready to get going again for the fall season.
Just got back from our nation’s capital where I had a retreat at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
I am a member and the only one in the organization from California as part of The Professional Opportunities For Teachers [...]

YA-AH-T’EH (hello in Navajo or Din’eh) which simply means “people”…so I’m through with my language lesson.
June is racing by and I didn’t tell you I’ve been at a school in Covina, CA called Wescove Elementary. They have been a delight to work with. All third grade…we are finishing up a 5 day session [...]

I’ll be shooting a film in New Mexico beginning July 1st. I play Hema a healer and curandera…I think that is like a Mexican witchdoctor.
I’ll be shooting in Santa Fe and Albuquerque and it’ll probaby be very HOT, weather wise. As I read the script it looks like alot of outdoor shooting. [...]

Hey Everybody!
How is everyone? This spring has been busy. The programs and workshops in the schools definitely keep me going.
Work in films is slow but hoping something will come through at some point.
I’ll be in Florida all next week performing in schools around the Jacksonville area. My good friend Karen Sadler has [...]

“Here are lovely stories from the very heart of the Navajo creation story – who better to tell them than Geri Keams who heard them as a child on the big reservation.”
Tony Hillerman – Author of “The Blessingway” and many others
Geri was born and raised in the Painted Desert. She is from the Streak [...]