EVENTS CALENDAR
Author Talk: Jody Bachelder-Author of Here First
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 AT 6:30 PM
Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME
Join the Curtis Memorial Library for a talk by Maine author and school librarian, Jody Bachelder. Her new book Here First: Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine is published by DownEast Books. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing at the event, via Gulf of Maine Books.
Mali Obomsawin 6tet at Bangor Arts Exchange
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 AT 7:30 PM
Bangor Arts Exchange, Bangor, ME
Live music showcase by Mali Obomsawun Music and Bangor Arts Exchange, a collaborative project of the non-profit Launchpad and the Bangor Symphony Orchestra.
MALI OBOMSAWIN is an award winning songwriter, bassist and composer from the W8banaki (Abenaki) First Nation at Odanak. With an eclectic background in American roots, jazz, and indie rock, Obomsawin carries several music traditions. A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings artist, Mali has received acclaim from NPR and RollingStone and toured internationally with the band Lula Wiles. She received the International Folk Music Association’s “Rising Tide Award” in 2022, which recognizes new generation artists who embody the values and ideals of the folk community through their creative work, community role, and public voice. She frequents the folk music circuit as both frontwoman and sidewoman, appearing at festivals like Newport and Philly Folk with Jake Blount and Lula Wiles, and also performs in the creative music scene with the likes of Peter Apfelbaum, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble. She is a member of Welcome To Indian Country, an Indigenous Performance Production started in 2020 to highlight five leading Native voices in jazz and roots music. As a composer-arranger, she recently scored the upcoming film We Are Warriors, collaborated with Red Sky Performance and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Palaver Strings. Her latest project, Sweet Tooth, explores concepts of Indigenous identity, colonization, and resistance using original compositions for sextet and archival material from the Wabanaki community.
For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
Sweet Tooth Album Release Tour with Mali Obomsawin
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2022 AT 8 PM
Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME
Join the Abbe Museum to celebrate the release of Sweet Tooth, the debut album from Mali Obomsawin, Abenaki First Nation of Odanak!
Mali and her band will be at the Abbe Museum on Sunday, October 30th at 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:30). Tickets are $25 per person, $20 for Abbe Museum Members. The Abbe is incredibly excited to be the stage for a performance that blends blues, jazz, hymns, folk songs, and Native cultures to create a one-of-a-kind listener experience you won’t want to miss! A suite for Indigenous resistance, the new album from Wabanaki bassist, composer, and songwriter Mali Obomsawin flies in the face of Western tropes that insist Indigenous cultures are monolithic, trapped in time. Instead, Obomsawin highlights centuries of clever adaptation and resistance that have fueled the art and culture of Wabanaki people. Written as a compositional suite, the album Sweet Tooth, coming October 28, 2022 on Out of Your Head Records, blends Wabanaki stories and songs passed down in Obomsawin’s own family with tunes addressing contemporary Indigenous life, colonization, continuity, love and rage.
To learn more and purchase tickets click here.
Film Screening of A Watershed Moment: A Story About People, Fish, and the Water that Connects Them
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022 AT 6:30 PM
Patagonia Store, Freeport, ME
Join Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT), Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries (MCCF), and Patagonia at the Patagonia store in Freeport on Thursday, November 3, for a free showing of “A Watershed Moment;” a short film about people, fish, and the water that connects them—and what it takes to keep that connection alive and strong. The inspiring short film that tells the story of many diverse groups that came together over multiple years to restore alewife fish passage throughout the entire Bagaduce River Watershed in on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Come early for tasty snacks and a Little Whaleboat Island IPA from Maine Beer Company—named after an MCHT preserve in Casco Bay! There will be a Q&A after the film with filmmaker Tate Yoder (Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries), Ciona Ulbrich (Maine Coast Heritage Trust), and Mike Thalhauser (Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries). This event is free and open to the public. Your RSVP is recommended though not required (we don’t want to run out of snacks or Little Whaleboat IPA). Last minute friends are welcome – bring them! You can RSVP by clicking here.
Second Annual Indian Law & History Lecture
featuring presenters Prof. Rebecca Tsosie & Prof. Darren Ranco
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2022 AT 12 PM
Talbot Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
The 2nd Annual Indian Law & History Lecture will explore the Doctrine of Discovery, a millennia-old legal principle, which forms the foundation for Western property law and was first espoused by the Pope as justification for the Christian Crusades. Following the Crusades, the Doctrine of Discovery was relied upon by various European nation-states as a legal justification for colonization of the Americas.
This year's lecture will feature Professor Rebecca Tsosie, of University of Arizona Law School, and Professor Darren Ranco, of University of Maine-Orono, who will explore the underpinnings of the Doctrine of Discovery in American jurisprudence and will reflect on how the doctrine was implemented or, rather, ignored in the place now known as the State of Maine. This year's lecture will be moderated by Michael-Corey Hinton of Drummond Woodsum. To register for the lecture, click here.
Wabanaki Stories
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023 AT 3 PM
Merrill Auditorium, Portland, ME
WORLD PREMIERE
Commissioned Maine Artist by Portland Ovations
The land and waters known as Maine have been home to Wabanaki people for over 12,000 years. This vibrant exploration of Wabanaki histories and cultures spotlights three Wabanaki storytellers coming from three different nations and storytelling traditions. Jennifer Pictou (Mi’kmaq) regales with spirit stories told in the company of large puppets; Dwayne Tomah (Passamaquoddy), the youngest fluent speaker of Passamaquoddy, shares stories that showcase his native language; and John Bear Mitchell (Penobscot) captures the imagination with tales of Espun, a trickster. Artist and author Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy) intersperses each story with music and narration.
Click here for more event details and to purchase tickets.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 AT 6:30 PM
Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME
Join the Curtis Memorial Library for a talk by Maine author and school librarian, Jody Bachelder. Her new book Here First: Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine is published by DownEast Books. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing at the event, via Gulf of Maine Books.
Mali Obomsawin 6tet at Bangor Arts Exchange
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 AT 7:30 PM
Bangor Arts Exchange, Bangor, ME
Live music showcase by Mali Obomsawun Music and Bangor Arts Exchange, a collaborative project of the non-profit Launchpad and the Bangor Symphony Orchestra.
MALI OBOMSAWIN is an award winning songwriter, bassist and composer from the W8banaki (Abenaki) First Nation at Odanak. With an eclectic background in American roots, jazz, and indie rock, Obomsawin carries several music traditions. A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings artist, Mali has received acclaim from NPR and RollingStone and toured internationally with the band Lula Wiles. She received the International Folk Music Association’s “Rising Tide Award” in 2022, which recognizes new generation artists who embody the values and ideals of the folk community through their creative work, community role, and public voice. She frequents the folk music circuit as both frontwoman and sidewoman, appearing at festivals like Newport and Philly Folk with Jake Blount and Lula Wiles, and also performs in the creative music scene with the likes of Peter Apfelbaum, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble. She is a member of Welcome To Indian Country, an Indigenous Performance Production started in 2020 to highlight five leading Native voices in jazz and roots music. As a composer-arranger, she recently scored the upcoming film We Are Warriors, collaborated with Red Sky Performance and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Palaver Strings. Her latest project, Sweet Tooth, explores concepts of Indigenous identity, colonization, and resistance using original compositions for sextet and archival material from the Wabanaki community.
For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
Sweet Tooth Album Release Tour with Mali Obomsawin
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2022 AT 8 PM
Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME
Join the Abbe Museum to celebrate the release of Sweet Tooth, the debut album from Mali Obomsawin, Abenaki First Nation of Odanak!
Mali and her band will be at the Abbe Museum on Sunday, October 30th at 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:30). Tickets are $25 per person, $20 for Abbe Museum Members. The Abbe is incredibly excited to be the stage for a performance that blends blues, jazz, hymns, folk songs, and Native cultures to create a one-of-a-kind listener experience you won’t want to miss! A suite for Indigenous resistance, the new album from Wabanaki bassist, composer, and songwriter Mali Obomsawin flies in the face of Western tropes that insist Indigenous cultures are monolithic, trapped in time. Instead, Obomsawin highlights centuries of clever adaptation and resistance that have fueled the art and culture of Wabanaki people. Written as a compositional suite, the album Sweet Tooth, coming October 28, 2022 on Out of Your Head Records, blends Wabanaki stories and songs passed down in Obomsawin’s own family with tunes addressing contemporary Indigenous life, colonization, continuity, love and rage.
To learn more and purchase tickets click here.
Film Screening of A Watershed Moment: A Story About People, Fish, and the Water that Connects Them
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022 AT 6:30 PM
Patagonia Store, Freeport, ME
Join Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT), Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries (MCCF), and Patagonia at the Patagonia store in Freeport on Thursday, November 3, for a free showing of “A Watershed Moment;” a short film about people, fish, and the water that connects them—and what it takes to keep that connection alive and strong. The inspiring short film that tells the story of many diverse groups that came together over multiple years to restore alewife fish passage throughout the entire Bagaduce River Watershed in on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Come early for tasty snacks and a Little Whaleboat Island IPA from Maine Beer Company—named after an MCHT preserve in Casco Bay! There will be a Q&A after the film with filmmaker Tate Yoder (Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries), Ciona Ulbrich (Maine Coast Heritage Trust), and Mike Thalhauser (Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries). This event is free and open to the public. Your RSVP is recommended though not required (we don’t want to run out of snacks or Little Whaleboat IPA). Last minute friends are welcome – bring them! You can RSVP by clicking here.
Second Annual Indian Law & History Lecture
featuring presenters Prof. Rebecca Tsosie & Prof. Darren Ranco
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2022 AT 12 PM
Talbot Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
The 2nd Annual Indian Law & History Lecture will explore the Doctrine of Discovery, a millennia-old legal principle, which forms the foundation for Western property law and was first espoused by the Pope as justification for the Christian Crusades. Following the Crusades, the Doctrine of Discovery was relied upon by various European nation-states as a legal justification for colonization of the Americas.
This year's lecture will feature Professor Rebecca Tsosie, of University of Arizona Law School, and Professor Darren Ranco, of University of Maine-Orono, who will explore the underpinnings of the Doctrine of Discovery in American jurisprudence and will reflect on how the doctrine was implemented or, rather, ignored in the place now known as the State of Maine. This year's lecture will be moderated by Michael-Corey Hinton of Drummond Woodsum. To register for the lecture, click here.
Wabanaki Stories
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023 AT 3 PM
Merrill Auditorium, Portland, ME
WORLD PREMIERE
Commissioned Maine Artist by Portland Ovations
The land and waters known as Maine have been home to Wabanaki people for over 12,000 years. This vibrant exploration of Wabanaki histories and cultures spotlights three Wabanaki storytellers coming from three different nations and storytelling traditions. Jennifer Pictou (Mi’kmaq) regales with spirit stories told in the company of large puppets; Dwayne Tomah (Passamaquoddy), the youngest fluent speaker of Passamaquoddy, shares stories that showcase his native language; and John Bear Mitchell (Penobscot) captures the imagination with tales of Espun, a trickster. Artist and author Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy) intersperses each story with music and narration.
Click here for more event details and to purchase tickets.
