New Exhibit Opening: Casting A Wider Net

Join us for the opening of our newest exhibit! This exhibit is the culmination of Casting a Wider Net, a community oral history project developed to collect and share the stories of Cape Verdean, Vietnamese, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Guatemalan, and Salvadoran members of New Bedford’s working waterfront. The project provided ethnographic training for 9 individuals from those communities who led the documentation effort, conducting 14 interviews in English, Spanish, Kriolu, and Vietnamese.

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The exhibit will include videos, photographs, and quotes from the oral history interviews as well as links to the full interview transcripts. Visitors will have the opportunity to hear the voices of each person who was interviewed, flip through photos of the narrators and their families, and can even write them a message in our guestbook. The exhibit opening will feature light refreshments and music representing the many cultures featured in the exhibit as well as opportunities to learn about other storytelling and community documentation efforts in our community and organizations working to support people who have recently immigrated to New Bedford.

Casting a Wider Net is funded in part by a Wicked Cool Places grant from New Bedford Creative, a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and an Expanding Massachusetts Stories grant from Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Host or Publisher New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center