Join the Sawyer Seminar for “Sites of Memory: Bulbancha & Mi'kma'ki” – the final events in the year-long series. The week’s program launch with a free screening of Mi’kmaq documentarian Catherine Martin’s “The Basket Maker” – a short film that considers place-based traditions of basket weaving in North America through decades of footage of artists building forms from materials local to them. In July of 2018, Mi’kmaq documentarian Catherine Martin received the Order of Canada for her work.

Following the film, there will be a discussion of the film’s themes moderated by Dr. Adrian Anagnost. Janie Verret Luster (a master palmetto basket weaver and cultural preservationist of the United Houma Nation) will be in conversation with Jill Francis (Mi’kmaq Interpreter at Kejimkujik National Park and Historic Site—Nova Scotia, Canada.