Wabanaki Events
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March 10, 2012 | 11:00 - 12:00 and 1:30 - 2:30 Rick Hunt, Abenaki, will lead two children's workshops on free form drawing, inspired by music and their own creative expressions. Rick has co-curated two contemporary art exhibits at the Abbe, and is an accomplished pen and ink artist. No experience necessary, to register please call Raney Bench at 288-3519 or email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Sponsored by the Lynam Trust. Free for children ages 6 through 18. Space is limited, reservations required. For more information contact 207/288-3519 March 11, 2012 The Laughing Couple Due, Rick and Carolyn Hunt, Abenaki, will perform a combination of traditional Abenaki storytelling and illustration in the Circle of Four Directions. Carolyn will share stories while Rick illustrates them as a live performance. Sponsored by the Lynam Trust. Free and open to the public. For more information contact: 207/288-3519 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it March 15, 2012 The lunch series concludes with Theresa Secord, Penobscot, and Director of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance. Theresa will highlight the enduring legacies that continue in Wabanaki families from the era explored in Indians and Rusticators. This will be the third talk in our annual winter series, connected with our blockbuster exhibit Indians & Rusticators: Wabanaki and Summer Vistors on Mount Desert Island, 1840s -1920s. Sponsored by the Lynam Trust. Free and open to the public. For more information contact: 207/288-3519 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it March 22, 2012 As part of Women's History Month, Curator of Education, Raney Bench, will lead a talk highlighting prominent Wabanaki women in Maine, historic and contemporary, and their contributions to their tribal communities and the state. Free and open to the public. For more information contact: 207/288-3519 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it March 26, 2012 This annual free workshop for teachers is designed to enhance understanding about topics and resources related to the Wabanaki and Maine Learning results. For more information or to register, call Raney Bench at 288-3519 or email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Free, registration required. For more information contact: 207/288-3519 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it April 19, 2012 A collaboration of Miane Indian Education and the Abbe Museum. The Waponahki Student Art Show brings together a wonderful variety of art created by Native American students from early childhood education through high school. Using a wide array of media, these young artists incorporate traditional beliefs and values with the modern, multi-cultural world around them. Exhibit runs through October 2012 in the Abbe Museum's Community Gallery. For more information contact: 207/288-3519 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it April 28, 2012 Children ages 6-18 will learn how to weave a simple ash basket with a sweetgrass rim, known as a candy basket or trinket basket. Pam will start the baskets, and children will learn how to weave the ash around a mold, and create a rim. Children will leave with a basket of their own creation that will last them a lifetime. Participation is limited, and reservations are required. For more information please call 288-3519 or e-mail Raney Bench at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it $30 for members, $40 for non-members For more information contact: 207/288-3519 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it July 7, 2012 Co-sponsored by the Abbe Museum, the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, and the College of the Atlantic, the festival is considered Maine's largest annual gathering of Native American artists. Meet the artists while learning about and purchasing Wabanaki baskets, carvings, beadwork, dolls, and other handmade items. The day-long event includes Native music, dance, storytelling, craft demonstrations, and food. Free and open to the public. Enjoy easy access to the College of the Atlantic on the FREE Island Explorer Shuttle bus www.exploreacadia.com/route2.htm For information call 207/288-3519 or visit www.abbemuseum.org August 25, 2012
Maine Native American Summer Market & Demonstration More than fifteen Native American artists representing three Maine tribes will be on hand to show their flute making, songs and storytelling, and jewelry and basketmaking creations. Demonstrations will show the creation of traditional arts and finished works will be for sale. Admission is free. For more information: 207/926-4597 or visit www.shaker.lib.me.us September 21-23, 2012 Visit members of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance at the Common Ground Country Fair. Brown ash and sweetgrass basketry and traditional arts will be offered for sale, and drumming and demonstrations will run throughout the weekend. For more information contact: Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association at 207/568-4142 or their website at www.mofga.org December 8, 2012
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This event features Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot basketmakers who sell their handmade, one of a kind, ash splint and sweetgrass basketry. Work baskets, such as creels, pack and potato baskets and fancy baskets ranging from strawberry and blueberry shaped baskets to curly bowls may be found along with quill jewelry, wood carvings and birchbark work. Demonstrations of brown ash pounding, basket making and other native arts, as well as traditional drumming, dancing and singing will be presented.