FRAMINGHAM - Events of note for the three-day Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day holiday weekend:
Saturday, October 10 - Access Film Festival “brings the best films to MetroWest Boston while showcasing and supporting local talent,” according to the Access Framingham website. There will be 34 short films (20 minutes or less), one 80-minute feature film, and other events. Screenings start at 11 am; doors open at 10. At Village Hall, 2 Oak Street, Framingham Centre Common. Tickets online are $17.85.
Saturday, October 10 - The non-profit Africa Exchange Project is hosting “an evening filled with stories, connection, entertainment, food, and drinks,” with music from the Crocodile River Band and food from Sentie’s Kitchen and TJ’s Food & Spirit. The event is from 6 to 9 pm at Plymouth Church, 87 Edgell Road in Framingham Centre. Tickets are $50. The Ashland-based Project raises money for “clean water, quality education, and reliable healthcare in Pomerini, Tanzania.”
Monday, October 12 - Indigenous Peoples Day: Rich Traditions, Honored Voices, noon to 2 pm at Edwards Church, 39 Edwards Street in Saxonville off Elm Street. This is the city’s sixth annual commemoration of the holiday, and the first at Edwards Church. Featured speakers: Maria Turner, chair of the Natick Nipmuc Tribe and Sonskq (chief) of the Nipmuc Nation Confederation; and Shani Turner, Medicine Woman for the Natick Nipmuc Tribe.
Other scheduled speakers include Jesse Edwards, the city’s chief diversity, equity & inclusion officer ; Rev. Dr. Deborah L. Clark, pastor of Edwards Church UCC; and Rev. Dr. Anthony Lloyd of Greater Framingham Community Church.
And, tonight, Friday, Oct. 9 - Opening reception for Anastasiya Borysova’s collages at Project B Gallery in The Mill Contemporary Art Studios, 2 Central St. in Saxonville, from 6 to 9 pm.
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