Eric Carle, Endpaper illustration for From Head to Toe. Collection of the Eric and Barbara Carle Foundation. © 1997 Penguin Random House LLC.
7000 Languages Film Festival
Free with Museum admission
Free for members
Join 7000 Languages for a day celebrating Native American languages through film, free digital courses, and a read aloud storytime at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art!
Featuring short films from California Native American language communities and the inspiring Makepeace Productions documentary on the return of the Wampanoag language after seven generations without first speakers, right here in Massachusetts
- Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (13 short films)
- California Native American Languages digital courses pop-up digital classroom: Sign up for free courses designed by 7000 Languages’ Sustain and Reclaim Language Fellows from California Tribal Nations
- We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân a film by Anne Makepeace
- Q&A with Director Anne Makepeace, producer and 7000 Languages CEO Jennifer Weston, and Wampanoag language scholar and advocate Alyssa Harris (Mashpee Wampanoag tribal citizen)
This Program is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (Federal grant award ID: MA-256047-OMS-24) and Mass Humanities through the Massachusetts Cultural Council.