10:30 – 11:30 am: A Cultural Landscape. Paul Bogaard will organize this event and share the 'outdoor stage' with an Acadian and an aboriginal historian. While viewing one landscape, near Woodpoint, the history of our three founding cultures will be explored. Transportation will be provided. Please meet at Boultenhouse Museum on Queen’s Road by 9:40 am
Noon: Festival By the Marsh’s 15 minute presentation of, “One Person Brief History of Sackville” in front of Town Hall. No admission.
1:30 – 3:00 pm: This event, lead by Mi’kmaq elder, Gilbert Sewell will identify medicinal plants used by our First Nations people. This fieldtrip will take place in the Sackville Waterfowl Park. Meet at Town Hall at 1:20 pm
3:30 – 5:00 pm: Bertholet Charron will lead a field trip and offer a story of the interrelations between the Bay of Fundy and the first Acadian settlers. From a small cove near Woodpoint, overlooking the Cumberland Basin, (the other side of which lays the historic Fort Beauséjour, Fort Lawrence and the buried ancient Beaubassin village), his talk will relate how the Acadians found ways of cultivating the marshlands by controlling the mighty waters of the bay with long dykes and aboiteaux. His love of and respect for the Bay of Fundy will also be a feature of his presentation. Meet at Town Hall at 3:15 pm.
All day: The public is invited to visit the existing museum exhibitions that are presented at both Boultenhouse Museum and The Campbell Carriage Factory. Admission for these museums will be waived for the day. Also, Fort Beausejour/Fort Cumberland National Historic invites visitors.
There is no admission charged for any of the Saturday daytime events. Transportation will be provided and visitors can experience each event in order or join between events. Those interested are asked to meet at Boultenhouse Museum on Queens Road in Sackville on Saturday by 9:40 am or call (506) 536-2541.
8:00 – 10:00 pm: Live Bait Theatre’s production of ‘The Heart that Knows’. A play based on Sir Charles GD Roverts book on life in the mid 1800’s in Woodpoint, near Sackville.
10:00 pm – Midnight: An Acadian Fête with “Brollochan”. Live music and dancing at Ducky’s Pub on Main Street in Sackville, NB.
Sackville's Intercultural Festival: http://www.sackville.com/culture/sackville_intercultural_weekend/