Wabanaki REACH, in collaboration with Atlantic Black Box, invites your participation in a WHERE2024 walk to take place at the Historic Pines in Madison. This August marks the 300th year since the brutal massacre of hundreds of Wabanaki / Abeneki women, children, and elders committed by a raiding party from York. During the self-guided walk, you will be given prompts inviting you to think critically about historical narratives, monuments, and collective memory. At the end of the trail, we will engage in a collective exercise, offering participants an opportunity to place themselves in the story of this place and in that of the territory we now call Maine.

In conjunction with its symposium at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Indigo Arts Alliance invites all to experience the Boothbay area through the lens of Black and Indigenous history.

In 1808, the United States made participation in the international slave trade a federal crime. However, Americans increasingly participated in this horrific and inhumane trade throughout the 19th century. Scholar Kate McMahon will offer a hybrid presentation describing Northern New England’s central role in the illegal slave trades to Brazil and Cuba during the 1830s-1860s. Register to attend in person or via Zoom.

Departing from South Portland, culminating in Falmouth

Join Atlantic Black Box & The Third Place for a daylong encounter with the suppressed history of the peninsula, aimed at restoring public memory about the local impacts of colonization & slavery.

Location: Indigo Arts Alliance, 60 Cove Street, Portland

This intergenerational symposium celebrates the cultural and culinary traditions of worldwide historical social justice movements. It will feature art workshops, movement and meditation, cross-cultural history, community-building, and cooking led by local and national activists and cultural workers.

Location: Hannaford Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland

A keynote presentation by Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries of The Ohio State University, with a panel conversation and reception. A panel event following the keynote will feature Speaker of the House Rachel Talbot Ross, the ACLU's Meagan Sway, Portland Public School's Wabanaki and Africana Studies lead Fiona Hopper, and Department of Education Wabanaki Studies Specialist Brianne Lolar

Location: Wolfe’s Neck Center, Freeport

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, who works at the intersection of history, civics, and social justice education.

Location: First Parish Portland, 425 Congress Street, Portland

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.

Location: Talbot Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland

On the 25th anniversary of the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage, join the founders of this extraordinary thirteen-month journey whose aim was to reverse the direction of the Middle Passage symbolically and geographically.

Virtual symposium

Join Community Change, Inc. to understand more about the history of white grievance, how it is showing up today, and what we can do about it at this virtual symposium featuring Dr. Hajar Yazdiha, Shay Stewart-Bouley, Tim Wise, Chris Crass, Debby Irving, and Paul Marcus. Learn more here: bit.ly/CWG24

Please join us on Thursday, May 9 at 5:30 pm for a gathering hosted by the Land We Live On in Freeport, Maine. Come enjoy food, music, art, and the splendor of Wolfe’s Neck with friends as we gather to launch the Walk for Historical and Ecological Recovery, an epic collective journey that will engage communities across the Dawnland in examining the ways that Indigenous, Black, and settler-descendent populations figure in our commemorative landscape and collective memory.