The Opening Doors Project, in collaboration with Belmont Against Racism (BAR) and the Club Passim Folk Collective, presents a free performance and reflection on Indigenous Peoples' Day with Annawon Weeden and Kim Moberg at Belmont High School's Black Box Theater.

Annawon Weeden was born and raised in his father’s Tribal community of Charlestown, Rhode Island learning the history of his Narragansett/Pequot lineage. He later moved to his mother’s Wampanoag community in Mashpee, Massachusetts. After working for many years as a musician, historian, educator, and cultural ambassador for Plimoth Plantation, Boston Children's Museum, and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation’s Cultural Resource Department, he now travels widely visiting schools, museums, and libraries — anywhere he can spread cultural knowledge and accurate history. He has appeared in person and in films for the Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic, PBS, History/Discovery Channel, the Alaska Native Heritage Center, and Harvard University.

Kim Moberg is an award winning singer-songwriter and founding member of the Club Passim Folk Collective. Born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, she is the daughter of a US Coast Guard veteran father from Kansas and a mother of native Tlingit descent. However, Kim only began to learn about her Indigenous heritage as an adult — a misfortune she describes as "by design." After many years of digging into the native history that had been kept from her, she released an album in 2023 called “The Seven Fires Prophecy: Suite for Humanity,” an 8 song original suite which connects the ancient Anishinaabe Seven Fires prophecy to our current social environment. The project was widely embraced in folk music circles and reached the top ten of the Folk Radio Chart.

Annawon and Kim will perform contemporary and traditional music and engage in a conversation, hosted by Opening Doors co-founder Alastair Moock, about the wide range of Indigenous American experience and the ways in which the past intersect with the present.

This FREE community program was made possible by Belmont Against Racism, Belmont Public Schools' Department of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Well-Being, the Mass Cultural Council, Someone Else’s Child Foundation, Antonia and Vladimer Kulaev Foundation, Nine Athens Music, Club Passim, and Filmmakers Collaborative.

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