The Glastonbury MLK Community Initiative invites you to a Community Conversation entitled "Indigenous Survivance: Language, Culture, and Community" on November 30th in the Friends Room at the Welles-Turner Memorial Library from 5:30 to 8:00 PM. This is a free event open to all. Refreshments will be served.

The Conversation honors Native American Heritage Month and Dr. King's advocacy for Native Americans' rights. The GMLKCI will screen "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân," an award-winning film about the successful effort to revive the Wampanoag language by members of the Wampanoag Nation. Following the screening will be a conversation about Indigenous survivance (survival and resistance) through language, culture, and community with the award-winning filmmaker Anne Makepeace and Darlene Kascak, who is an active member of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation in Connecticut, a Traditional Native American Storyteller, and Education Director for the Institute for American Indian Studies Museum in Washington, CT.

The Glastonbury MLK Community Initiative’s mission is to increase knowledge about, and understanding of, the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, and to provide leadership and active engagement to build an inclusive community. We believe that bringing people together to discuss openly and honestly important issues relating to social justice will help build a more inclusive and tolerant community.

The goal of the GMLKCI program is to engage residents of Glastonbury and surrounding towns in conversations about social justice issues. We believe – especially in today's climate – that we must identify common ground between and among citizens rather than continue to exploit differences. In this way, we can foster meaningful relationships and dialogue and forge a better community.

For more information, please contact glastonburyMLKCI@gmail.com.