“Now that we know, what do we do?” community discussion on the lawn of the Eastville Community Historical Society. This discussion is free to attend, but registration is required. Visit www.forgettingtoremember.eventbrite.com to register.
This discussion will touch upon the Plain Sight Project's research on enslaved, indentured, and free people of color on the East End, and its significance to our collective community. The panel will include Donnamarie Barnes and David Rattray, Co-Directors of the Plain Sight Project, Michael A. Butler, Dr. Georgette Grier-Key, Executive Director of the Eastville Community Historical Society, and Brenda Simmons, Executive Director of the Southampton Museum of African American History.
Limited seating. Bringing your own chair is suggested.
This event is part of the "Forgetting to Remember" Project, a collaboration between Sag Harbor Cinema and the Plain Sight Project, sponsored by U.S. Senator Hon. Charles E. Schumer’s Congressionally Directed Community Project Funding grant through the United States Department of Education.
This collaborative endeavor expands the vital work of the Plain Sight Project—which aims to unearth the identities and stories of enslaved, indentured, and free people of color on the East End of Long Island, New York—into the Sag Harbor area.
The “Forgetting to Remember” Project intends to develop new audiences through continued archival research, public exhibitions and events, a short-form documentary film, and curriculum development, recounting a more inclusive understanding of our collective history.
*Rain date: July 16 at 1 pm at the Eastville Community Historical Society. In the event of rain on the scheduled rain date, this event will take place indoors at Sag Harbor Cinema for a limited audience of 60 people. The first 60 people to register on Eventbrite will have guaranteed entry to the talk at the Cinema if rain should occur on the event's rain date.
