Ohketeau Greets Little Amal

AMAL WALKS ACROSS AMERICA. ONE LITTLE GIRL. ONE BIG HOPE.

Little Amal is a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl who has traveled across 13 countries meeting more than a million people, and watched by tens of millions more online. This fall, she will journey 6,000 miles across the United States in one of the largest free public festivals ever created.

From all corners of the globe, people have visited Little Amal and shared in her message of hope, healing and that everyone deserves to have a home.

On September 10th, 2023 She was Welcomed to Nipmuc homelands by Larry Spotted Crow Mann, Willow Daly, Anoki Mann, Jasmine Rochelle Goodspeed, Andre Strongbearheart Gaines and Daishuan Red Deer Garate on behalf of Nipmuc People.

Hundreds of people young and old came out to support and share in the message from near and far.

The shared and lived experience of removal and displacement by the First Nations of this land and many Refugees around the world made this Welcoming all the more Significant.

Larry Spotted Crow Mann led a Nipmuc healing song and gifts were provided to Amal for sustenance and healing by the Nipmuc People.

Double Edge Theatre staff, partners and Jupiter Dance Company walked Little Amal to Ashfield Lake from the Ashfield Common with wonderful song and dance!

Andre Strongbearheart Gaines and Daishuan Red Deer Garate paddled across Ashfield Lake in a traditional mishoon; a burned out canoe, right here in Ashfield by at the Ohketeau Cultural Center to greet Little Amal with a traditional Nipmuc Paddle Song.

An absolutely amazing experience for all!

 (A Walk with Little Amal in Ashfield was curated as part of Double Edge Theatre and Jupiter Performance Studio's Art and Survival Performance Festival)