Join Brown's Simmons Center team in launching a curriculum designed to provide K–12 teachers and students with resources that foreground the histories and experiences of the Dawnland’s (New England’s) Indigenous and African-descended communities.
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | Signs, Stories, and Unravelling Myths on 1/29
Should historical towns change their signs and markers? Concord resident Joe Palumbo takes us on a tour of the real history of Concord, Massachusetts - a far cry from the romantic notion of the Puritan founding of 1635, Revolutionary War heroism, and the home of Henry David Thoreau, Emerson and Louisa May Alcott.
ABB Event | Doors of Return: Recovering and Reclaiming Black New England Histories on 1/22
Dr. Akeia de Barros Gomes, Director of the Center for Black History at the Newport Historical Society will discuss how global travel, archaeological work, and anthropological fieldwork helped to shape her history-making as a scholar and museum professional.
Opportunity | Apply for Upstander Academy 2025: Rethreading the Needle of Native American History Through Land- and Water-Based Learning
With a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the 2025 Summer Institute is designed to give 25 participants an immersive and experiential understanding of Native American history and contemporary realities in the Dawnland, currently called New England.
Website Launch: Reimagining New England Histories K-12 Curriculum Project
Brown University's Simmons Center launches an Educator’s Guide for Teaching about Historical Injustice, Sovereignty, and Freedom in the Dawnland (New England)
ABB/WHERE Event: The Descendants Walk in York on 11/16/24
This Saturday, join us in experiencing the town of York in a new and powerful way—as the Descendants all of us are. We'll warm up over homemade soup and bread and watch a rending performance by Antonio Rocha that will open a discussion about what happened here, what each of us carries in our lineages, and what it all might mean for us today.
Imagine Studios Event | Newburyport’s 4th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day gathering on 10/14/24
Join Newburyport's 4th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Event, Monday October 14th, at Newburyport Waterfront Park
MHS Event | Racial Histories of Higher Education in New England: A Symposium Co-Hosted by The New England Quarterly on 9/27/24
As battles have raged over the meaning and fate of Confederate monuments across the south, colleges and universities in New England, generally regarded as liberal bastions, have also been engaged in a deep and consequential reckoning with aspects of their history and ongoing practices that rest on the legacies of slave trade and settler colonialism. This event will highlight the work of a diverse range of historians, as well as university archivists and museum professionals, discussing a range of issues from the Colonial period to the present that shape the industry, experience, and cultures of higher education.
Truro Event | What Happened Here? Surfacing Cape Cod’s Connections to Slavery and Colonization with Meadow Dibble on 8/21
This Wednesday, Meadow Dibble will offer an overview of Cape Cod's entanglements in the global economy of enslavement at Truro's Highland House Museum.
WHERE2024 Event : The Norridgewock Memory Walk, Hosted by Wabanaki REACH on 8/17/24
This August marks the 300th year since the brutal massacre of hundreds of Wabanaki / Abenaki women, children, and elders committed by a raiding party from York. Wabanaki REACH, in collaboration with Atlantic Black Box, invites your participation in a WHERE2024 walk to take place at the Historic Pines in Madison, Maine.
Revolutionary Spaces Events: “Bounty” film on Indigenous resilience showing daily at the Old State House
Hosted by Revolutionary Spaces in collaboration with Upstander Project Showing daily at the Old State House starting July 1 GET TICKETS Bounty captures Penobscot families reading and reacting to bounty proclamations that incentivized the scalping of Indigenous people. Filmed in the Old State House, where many of these laws were signed, the film confronts the brutal … Continue reading Revolutionary Spaces Events: “Bounty” film on Indigenous resilience showing daily at the Old State House
This Saturday: Join ABB & Partners for The Walk to Unsettle Portland
On Saturday, June 22, Atlantic Black Box and The Third Place’s EcoBIPOC Network invite you to join The Walk to Unsettle Portland, a daylong collective practice—at once physical, emotional, creative, and intellectual—in unsettling our understanding of this place by surfacing the suppressed stories of those who walked here before us. Please join us for all or part of the day.
ABB Event | Teaching Hard History: Past, Present, and Future on 6/13
An educator workshop and teacher-appreciation dinner with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries of The Ohio State University, Dr. Kate Shuster of the Hard History Project, and longtime education leader Maureen Costello.
Slave Legacy History Coalition Event | Daytrip to Deerfield to View Unnamed Figures on 6/22
Spend June 22, 2024 with the Slave Legacy History Coalition and the New England Museum Association on an exciting day trip to Deerfield, MA to view Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North.
ABB Event | Marking the Memoryscape on 5/31/24
Hosted by Atlantic Black Box in partnership with Maine Black Community Development, The Third Place, First Parish Portland, & WHERE2024 Partners A community conversation and luncheon to discuss launching a Middle Passage Ceremony and Port Marker Project for Maine, with MPCPMP founder Ann Chinn and award-winning civil rights historian and activist Danita Mason-Hogans. Friday, May … Continue reading ABB Event | Marking the Memoryscape on 5/31/24
Upstander event | How NOT to Make Films: 15 years of failures, mishaps and lessons learned on 6/13
In 2024, as Upstander Project celebrates its 15th year, the crew is attempting to walk the walk by getting vulnerable and honest about their own shortcomings and missteps along the way. The hope is that by practicing the transparency and openness they so frequently teach about, they can continue on their lifelong journey as aspiring upstanders and allies.
ABB Event | Healing the Wounds of Slavery on 5/30
On the 25th anniversary of the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage, founders Nobuntu Ingrid Askew and Sister Clare Carter will join Crossing the Waters Co-Director Dr. Sonji Johnson-Anderson and moderator June Thornton-Marsh for a screening of the documentary Rise Up and Call Their Names, which chronicles the extraordinary thirteen-month journey the founders led in 1998-1999 through the eastern United States, the Caribbean, Brazil, West Africa, and South Africa to reverse the direction of the Middle Passage symbolically and geographically.
A Slave Legacy History Coalition Event | Slavery in Jamaica Plain with Mimi Pichey on 6/12/24
This project seeks to bring to light what has been forgotten or hidden in the community’s history. We are exploring the history of the Indigenous people, identifying and sharing the stories of enslaved people from the 1600s and 1700s, developing a history of the abolitionist movement in JP, and researching movements and activities of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries that made an impact on our community and beyond.
SPACE Re-Site 2024 Events in Portland | site-specific, temporary public art and Portland history-telling
SPACE is a portland-based nonprofit organization that supports contemporary arts projects, champions artists, and encourages an open exchange of ideas. Learn more here about Re-Site 2024 SPACE is pleased to present Re-Site 2024, the second edition of the site-specific, temporary public art and Portland history-telling initiative first launched in 2020. This year’s iteration features artistic interpretation of … Continue reading SPACE Re-Site 2024 Events in Portland | site-specific, temporary public art and Portland history-telling
Pejepscot Portage Mapping Project Event | Two-Eyed Seeing: Moving through Place & Story at Pejepscot on 2/12/24
Hosted by the Pejepscot Portage Mapping Project Monday, February 12, 2024 6-7:30 p.m.23 Pleasant Street, BrunswickMorrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library(Snow date: Monday, March 11) Two-Eyed Seeing: Moving through Place & Story at Pejepscot When people talk about the history of a place, they are often talking about the history they see with one eye: … Continue reading Pejepscot Portage Mapping Project Event | Two-Eyed Seeing: Moving through Place & Story at Pejepscot on 2/12/24