2024 WABANAKI WINTER MARKET

Name: 2024 WABANAKI WINTER MARKET
Start: 2024-12-14T09:00:00-05:00
Location: 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono, ME, United States, Maine 04469

Schedule

Sat Dec 14 2024 at 09:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono, ME, United States, Maine 04469 | Orono, ME

The Wabanaki Winter Market 2024 is the largest holiday gathering of Wabanaki artists in New England. It will celebrate its 30th anniversary with one-of-a-kind pieces, including some from new and nationally acclaimed basket weavers, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024 at the University of Maine Collins Center for the Arts.
During the 30th annual Wabanaki Winter Market 2024, dozens of Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Maliseet, and Mi’kmaq artists will showcase and sell their basketry, jewelry, beadwork, wood carvings, birchbark crafts, and other artwork. The free event will also feature brown ash pounding and demonstrations, storytelling, traditional music, drumming, dancing, and maple syrup.
The UMaine Hudson Museum located inside the Collins Center will be open during the event. The museum will be featuring a special anniversary exhibit, Transforming Traditions. The exhibit will feature the basketry of Theresa Secord and her son Caleb Hoffman; Gabriel Frey and his mother Gal Frey; Dolly Barnes and her late mother Molly Neptune Parker; members of the Neptune family–Kenny Keezer and Debbie Nicholas and Peter Neptune and his daughter Maggie Dana.
2024 – SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Saturday, December 14, 2024
9:00 Doors Open to the Public
9:30-10:00 Welcome
10:00-10:30 Traditional Penobscot Songs with Kelly Demmons, Penobscot
10:30-11:00 Brown Ash Pounding Demonstration by Eldon Hanning, Mi’kmaq
11:00-11:30 Children’s Doll Workshop with Wendy Hamilton, Penobscot
11:30- Noon Flute Music with Hawk Henries, Nipmuc
1:00-1:30 Basket demonstration by Peter Neptune, Passamaquoddy
2:00-3:00 Burnurwebskek Singers
While you are at the Winter Market be sure to visit piləwihasəwal wəlatahkewαkanal Transforming Traditions in the Hudson Museum. This exhibit showcases the works of 5 pairs of artists who are taking the tradition in new directions and the intergenerational transfer of traditional cultural knowledge in the face of threats to the tradition:
Theresa Secord and Caleb Hoffman
Gabriel Frey and Gal Frey
Peter Neptune and Maggie Dana
Debbie Nicholas and Kenny Keezer
Dolly Barnes and Molly Neptune Parker
The Wabanaki Winter Market 2024 is hosted by the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine in Orono and is supported in part by grants from and the Onion Foundation.
For more information, please visit: https://www.wabanakiwintermarket.org
Visitors from far away can request reasonable accommodation by contacting the Hudson Museum Director, Gretchen Faulkner, via e-mail: [email protected].