Building Bridges at the Great Falls

Building Bridges at the Great Falls Building Bridges is a retired arts, culture and social justice collective. Art and service-learning initiative for local youth and adults.

We co-created the Building Bridges Mural, bringing together local youth+allies with indigenous artists+elders, and held a discussion series focused on decolonization. Our biggest project to date has been a community mural, called "Building Bridges: Connecting Our Community's Native Roots with Our Diverse Present," which brought together local teen artists with local indigenous artists, elders and

historians to design and paint a mural on the Parks & Recreation Building at Unity Park, at the Great Falls. The mural's success expanded into a film screening and decolonization discussions. We are now focusing on education, environmental stewardship and the development of biogas. "Building Bridges" is supported by the Montague, Gill and Deerfield Cultural Councils, the Gill-Montague School District, Montague Parks & Recreation and Town Planner, the Nolumbeka Project, Great Falls Discovery Center, as well as members of the Elnu Abenaki, Aquinnah Wampanoag, Mohawk, Blackfoot and Nipmuc tribes. For more information or to sign up! [email protected]

Volunteering opportunities coming up :)
04/01/2025

Volunteering opportunities coming up :)

"When We Came Together", the story of Building Bridges Mural, is going to publication this month! Find your copy at the...
02/18/2025

"When We Came Together", the story of Building Bridges Mural, is going to publication this month!

Find your copy at the Montague Parks & Recreation Field House at Unity Park, at libraries in Great Falls, Gill and Erving, at the high school, and online at Nolumbeka Project.

Great Thanks to all our supporters and collaborators!

Building Bridges Mural Artists, 2016-2019Anthony Melting TallowJames CachatLily-Rakia ChandlerLuis Felipe Gonzalez Luis ...
02/18/2025

Building Bridges Mural Artists, 2016-2019

Anthony Melting Tallow
James Cachat
Lily-Rakia Chandler
Luis Felipe Gonzalez Luis Felipe Gonzalez

Coming up soon!
08/21/2024

Coming up soon!

The Harvest Supper menu is ready!!! Thank you to all our local farms who are contributing to this meal! Volunteers are busy chopping and peeling to make this feast for Saturday!

Hurray for local farms and local food!!

Natural Roots Farm
Red Fire North
Tansaafl Farm
Kitchen Garden
Apex Orchards
Bostrom Farm
Clarkdale Fruit Farms
Joe Czajkowski Farm
Lakeside Organics of Hadley
Mycoterra
Sage Farm
Seeds of Solidarity
SWAZ Potato Farms (Szawlowski)
Atlas Farm
Ciesluk Farmstand
Fern Hill Farm
Hart Farm
Just Roots
Old Friends Farm, Amherst MA
Pekarski's Meats
Real Pickles
Fogbuster Coffee
Upinngil
Warner Farm

See you THIS Saturday (Aug 24) on the Greenfield Town Common to EAT TOGETHER!! Dinner is served 4:30pm - 6:30pm (appetizers at 4pm!).

Franklin County Chamber of Commerce
City of Greenfield

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Turners Falls, MA
01376

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Building Bridge, a Community Mural

Make new friendships across cultures Create beauty and inspiration Reclaim Native space at the Great Falls, a sacred place for tribes across the Northeast

it's important to share the histories of the places where we live and to understand that there are still Native people living in our community. We have much to learn from one another.

The people who came before, the people who are here now, the people who will come in the future. The people of the Pocumtuk, who lived here for over 10,000 years before the colonists came, learned how to live in harmony with the Earth, and made a treaty of peace as part of the Iroquois Confederacy.

We want to honor the peace that is continuing to be built among Native and settler colonial people here, as well as the many gifts that people of all cultures contribute to our community.