BRUNSWICK — A Wabanaki Arts Festival will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Smith Union on the Bowdoin College campus. The festival brings Native American artists and musicians from Maine and across New England to campus for the day.

This is the fifth year that Bowdoin College will host this event and it is part of an initiative to build a strong relationship between the college and the four tribes in Maine: the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot.

Music at this year’s event will include two drum groups, the Alamoosic Lake Singers from Maine and the Lakota group, Black Thunder.

Also performing throughout the day will be Hawk Henries, an internationally known flute performer and crafter.

Hand-drum and traditional singing and Wabanaki storytelling also will be part of the day’s events.

Wabanaki artisans and crafters will show and sell their original pieces, including sweetgrass baskets, brown ash baskets, birch bark art and containers, jewelry and musical instruments.

The Native American Students

Association at Bowdoin will offer ongoing craft projects for children and adults.

The event is supported by the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund, the Native American Students Association, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Wabanaki- Bates- Bowdoin- Colby Collaborative.

For more information, contact Leslie Shaw at 725-3815 or lshaw@bowdoin.edu.

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