Launch Party: The Walk for Historical and Ecological Recovery

Hosted by The Land We Live On

Over the course of 2024, partners committed to surfacing the truths of racism and colonization in the place known for millennia by the Wabanaki people as the Dawnland will engage with local communities on a journey across land and water, shining a light on the ways that Indigenous, Black, and settler-descendent populations are represented—or not—in Maine’s commemorative landscape.

Convened by the public history nonprofit Atlantic Black Box, the Walk for Historical and Ecological Recovery (WHERE2024) is a broad-based and community-engaged effort carried out in partnership with Wabanaki REACH, Indigo Arts Alliance, Community Change Inc., and the In Kinship Collective.

Over seven months, a series of walks and programs situated in seven locations throughout the state will engage the public in surfacing suppressed stories of enslavement and resistance, oppression and restoration, displacement and represencing. Walking in solidarity to forward ongoing processes of truth-seeking and transformation, our aim is to catalyze creative and embodied approaches to antiracist and decolonial historical recovery efforts across the state and the region.

Please join us in this movement to reckon with all that has happened here and to engage in dialogue around the ways that our past continues to shape our present-day relationships and our possible futures.

Doors open at 5:30 pm for a reception. The program begins at 6:00 pm.

Host or Publisher Atlantic Black Box & Indigo Arts Alliance