Black and Indigenous Maritime Perspectives in the Dawnland
Please join us on Sunday May 7th for a Special Event: Black and Indigenous Maritime Perspectives in the Dawnland with Dr. Akeia de Barros Gomes, Senior Curator of Maritime Social Histories at Mystic Seaport Museum. We are excited to partner with The Puddle Dock Restaurant and Players’ Ring Theatre to bring you this special evening! This event begins with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at 4:30pm at Puddle Dock Restaurant with the presentation to follow at 5:30 at The Players’ Ring . Registration is available here; tickets are $100.
Dr. Akeia de Barros Gomes is the Senior Curator of Maritime Social Histories at Mystic Seaport Museum, she is the Director of the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, and is a Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Akeia is responsible for working on curatorial projects of race, Indigenous histories, ethnicity and diversity in New England’s Maritime activities. She is lead curator for the 2024 Mystic Seaport exhibition, Entwined: The Sea, Sovereignty and Freedom, a multi-year Mellon Foundation-funded project that reimagines the history of the founding and development of New England through Indigenous, African, and African American maritime narratives.
