Healing the Wounds of Slavery

Documentary Screenings 

Students at Westfield State University joined Nobuntu Ingrid Askew, Sister Clare Carter, and Dr. Sonji Johnson-Anderson for the screening of "This Far By Faith: Rise Up and Call Their Names", The story of the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage: Retracing the Journey of Slavery (1998 - 1999 );  Q&A panel, and reception.

Dramatic Staged Readings -- A Fundraiser Event

Poetry, Slave Narratives, Music & Dance 

First Parish Unitarian Universalist of Sudbury, Kathleen Hepler, Minister, welcomed Crossing the Water's Awakening Ceremony in October and the Inaugural Performance of "Water, Wind, Sails, Bones" in November with stage production by Eugene Warner.

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Nobuntu Ingrid Askew, Martine De Souza, Dr. Sonji Johnson-Anderson in Amherst, Massachusetts, 2023. 

Crossing the Waters Institute is working to raise awareness and funds to send their inaugural delegation to the Door of No Return and Walk of Victory in Ouidah, Benin, a primary port of the transatlantic slave trade from Dahomey territory in West Africa.  

For  More Activities: Crossing the Waters Institute for Cultural Exchange