The work really addressed in a new way what it meant to be Indian: what it really meant to really live in two worlds.

The event has been in the works for about six months, and it has taken a lot of hard work and time to get the show ready for audiences this fall.

I became aware of Gamble And Huff, the whole Philadelphia sound and the work Norman Whitfield was doing with The Temptations. It wasn't just party music anymore. It had a message. That's how I got into black music while my friends were becoming hippies.

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

The operative word is coalition. We want to work with all agencies that are local and help them do what they are doing.

It's the kids. The kids wanted it. Usually you say that if you want something, go after it. Work for it. Each and every last one of these kids on these teams, they contributed to their teams to get what they wanted to get.