Seeqan Sessions 2025: Light, Growth, and Preservation

April 24, 2025 | Mystic Seaport Museum Evening program featuring the exhibition Entwined: Freedom, Sovereignty, and the Sea April 25–26, 2025 | Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Conversations around conservation: waterways, culture, and resilienceSeeqan Sessions seeks to honor the promise of this Spring season by bringing together knowledge-bearers, scholars, advocates, artists, teachers, and youth from across the Dawnlands plus interested members of the public for conversation, connection, and community. This gathering will revolve around water, watersheds, and the oceans with exhibit tours, panel presentations, artist reflections, and discussions. The central topic for this convening will be conservation: waterways, culture, and resilience. Conservation involves the necessary pursuit of protection, preserving what we value for the next generations. It also can be a practice of exclusion, extraction, and division, reinforcing colonial constructs and systems of exploitative power. Together, we’ll explore the conservation of land and water, of history and art, of community and youth, and more through decolonizing methodologies.Free and open to the public. Lunch and museum admission are included in your registration. This event is a co-organized convening with the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Mystic Seaport Museum, and the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University.