The Music Center Education Division presents World City, a fascinating performance series that celebrates the rich diversity of cultural traditions reflected in the Los Angeles community. World City presents Geri Keams, a member of the Streak-of-Black Forest Clan of the Navajo and the Git-Hoan Dancers, who trace their ancestry to the Village of Metlakatla in Alaska. In the Northwestern singing and dancing traditions of the Tsimshian people Git-Hoan Dancers use magnificent hand carved masks, headdresses, and skin and wood drums to enact epic stories like: The Shaman and the Land Otter Women; and Killerwhale-Chief Of The Sea. Keams is a renowned storyteller and Wisdom Keeper who offers spellbinding ancient chants and Creation myths of Southwestern tribes. This is the opening event of the 2005-06 World City season, and is dedicated to the traditions of the First Americans and the art and knowledge of indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere.