Who Gets to Make History?: The Power of Statues and Monuments
Wed, Apr 16
|Shrewsbury Public Library
Join us for a special middle-school edition of Who Gets to Make History?, as we explore the role of monuments in remembering hard history and make monuments celebrating Black identity and experience.
Time & Location
Apr 16, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Shrewsbury Public Library, 609 Main St, Shrewsbury, MA 01545, USA
About the event
What are monuments for? Whose stories do they celebrate? Whose stories do they erase or get wrong? In this middle-school edition of our workshop, we'll explore statues and monuments (famous and not so famous), examine hard moments of our shared history, and use art-making to re-imagine how statues and monuments can celebrate values of community, equity, and justice.
Hands-on art-making will follow an interactive teach-in and reading of the award-winning picture book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre.