June 5-6, 2008: The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Autry National Center)
- June 5th world premiere screening/performance.
- Score performance by the UCLA Philharmonia (conducted by Neal Stulberg)
- Two-day public symposium, “Documents of an Encounter.”
- June 7th: additional dance performance at the Autry National Center
June 10, 2008: The Moore Theatre, Seattle (co-presented by Seattle Theatre Group, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and the Seattle International Film Festival).
June 22, 2008: The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, BC (co-presented by the UBC Museum of Anthropology, the UBC First Nations Studies Program, and the UBC Centenary 2008).
- June 22nd screening/performance.
- Score performance by the Turning Point Ensemble (conducted by Owen Underhill)
- June 24th panel discussion at the Museum of Anthropology.
November 9, 2008: The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (co-presented by Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian)
- Score performance by the Coast Orchestra
- No Kwakwaka'waka performance
November 13, 2008: Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ) Symposium - "Moving Pictures: The Celluloid Archive, Indigenous Agency, and the Work of Edward S. Curtis." (Download the event poster).
November 14, 2008: The American Museum of Natural History, New York City (co-presented by the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, Rutgers University, and New York University).
- Score performance by the Coast Orchestra
- Limited Kwakwaka'waka performance only
November 16-17, 2008: The Field Museum, Chicago
- Limited Kwakwaka'waka performance only
- No live score performance (recorded music by the Turning Point Ensemble)
November 22, 2008: American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival), San Francisco
- Informal screening and discussion of the restored film and score (on DVD) with project co-producers Brad Evans and Aaron Glass
- Open to conference registrants only