Sharing Community Histories Showcase 2026

Event Info

October 16, 2026
9:30am – 4:00pm

Cabral Center
John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute
Northeastern University Boston Campus

Registration (and Lunch Order Selection)

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About the Showcase

The Sharing Community Histories Showcase fosters practice and knowledge exchanges about community-engaged projects out of the humanities and arts. Talks and posters feature projects that Boston-area community partners, college teachers and students have co-created. An interactive workshop helps chart the future of partnering in education. We hope you leave this event both inspired and with a few more Boston-area contacts.

Program

9:30am	Doors Open
9:50am	Welcome
10:00 – 10:45am	Opening Conversation: Urban Renewal and Voices from the Archive: The West End Museum, BU MetroBridge Monologue Project, and Reckonings Project NU Panelists: Jaydie Halperin, The West End Museum David Gross, Boston University MetroBridge Uta Poiger, Northeastern University Moderator: Jackson Jirard, Northeastern University
10:45 – 11:00am	Coffee Break
11:00am – 12:00pm	Panel: Culture, Labor, Community The Ufot Cycle and Community Impact: Nine Plays, One City Panelists: Christina Michaud, Boston University  Mfoniso Udofia, Playwright, Screen Writer & Creator of The Ufot Family Cycle Meg O’Brien, Huntington Theatre Company Digitizing Days: Participatory Archiving for the Labor Movement Panelists: Nicholas Juravich, UMass Boston Bill Humphrey, UMass Boston, Nora Katz, Participatory Archiving, UMass Boston Shannon Leary, UMass Boston          Moderator: Kris Manjapra, Northeastern University
12:00 – 1:00pm	Lunch Break Lunch Boxes for those who registered will be in the Cabral Center. Please visit the exhibit “Waves of Hidden Histories” at Gallery 360.
1:00 – 1:45pm	Brainstorm and Workshop: Human Partnerships in Education: Can AI help? Violetta Ravagnoli, Emmanuel College Dzidzor Azaglo, Northeastern University
2:00 – 2:50pm	Poster Session: Building and Sharing Community Histories More Than an Acknowledgement: The Indigenous Resources Collaborative  and Bridgewater State University  Joyce Rain Anderson, Bridgewater State University Linda Coombs, Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah and Indigenous Resources Collaborative Michael Zimmerman, Bridgewater State University Narrating Belonging: Multilingual Student Experiences in the BPS/RCC  Early College Consortium Carly Martino, Roxbury Community College Community Writing: A Collaboration between Boston University and the  Brookline Senior Center Jessica Bozek, Boston University Akemi Minami, Brookline Senior Center Gerardo Vega, Boston University Archiving Abolition Feminist Approaches to Community Care in Greater Boston Laura Grattan, Wellesley College Jenny Musto, Wellesley College Native Spaces Sarah Kanouse, Northeastern University Symphony Road Roots to Roxbury Community College Civic Engagement Garden: A Founder’s Journey in Cultivating Urban Food Security (1990- present) Nasreen Latif, Roxbury Community College Jane Taub, Symphony Road Community Garden
2:50 – 3:00pm	Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:00pm	Exhibit Conversation: Waves of Hidden Histories: Arts Practice, Archiving, and Boston’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Diaspora Communities Panelists: Lani Asunción, Hidden Histories Artist-in-Resident at Northeastern University  Joanna Tam, Hidden Histories Artist-in-Resident at Northeastern University                   Moderator: Denise Khor, Northeastern University