presents an innovative, free public program of poetry, story & song on |
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CHANGING PLACES
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Savannah riverfront, c. 1901.
P hoto W.H. Jackson. Library of Congress. |
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The public of all ages and interests is invited for inspiration, humor, and insight about the changing places we call home. Poet Opal Moore (Spelman College) will read on the Middle Passage and Later Migrations; former Georgia Poet Laureate Bettie Sellers (Young Harris College, retired) on Changing Hills: North Georgia Poems; and Guyanese-British poet-novelist Fred D'Aguiar (Virginia Tech) on Islands Come to the Southland: Caribbean Migration Stories. First African Baptist Church Choir will offer I Know a Place: Songs of Sacred Waters and Places. |
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| We gratefully recognize the kind cooperation of Georgia Humanities Council, First African Baptist Church, Historic Savannah Foundation, Coastal Heritage Society, Georgia Historical Society, Massie School, Southern Arts Federation, and other local and regional institutions. We highly recommend visiting the Virtual Historic Savannah Project! Special thanks to Carolyn Collins for her brilliant organizational and planning work, and for coming up with the concept and phrase "Changing Places." |
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| Oct.7-11: Enjoy The Savannah Folk Music Festival, an outstanding annual series of events presented by the Savannah Folk Music Society, and which SAHC is proud to sponsor. |
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| October 8-10: Commemorations of the 225th Anniversary of the Siege of Savannah! To learn more about the Reenactment (4pm Saturday and 1pm Sunday near Savannah Hilton Head International Airport) of this historic battle in the War of Independence, which involved the contributions and sacrifices of African-Americans, French, Haitian, Polish, and many others, see the link above. See also the Coastal Heritage Society's Calendar of 225th Anniversary events - including Oct.7 lecture by Savannah State University's Prof. Charles Elmore on African-American and Haitian participation in the Siege. |
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| Please click here for an attractive, viewable and printable event flyer. We also have a smaller rack-card publicity tool available; if you would like to help us by distributing them to your school, friends, neighbors, or colleagues, please contact pablo@southatlanticcenter.org or (434) 924-9946. |
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| The South Atlantic Humanities Center (SAHC), a partnership of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Virginia Tech, and the University of Virginia, is dedicated to furthering public humanities in the South Atlantic region (Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Virginia on the mainland; Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean). |
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