The schedule is subject to change.
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Conway Visitors Center
5th and Main: 428 Main St.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Vendor Market |
Town Green
200 Laurel St.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Celebration and Memory: Indigo Dying with Adrianne King Comer |
| 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Food Vendors and Artisan Market |
Horry County Museum Auditorium
805 Main St.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10 – 10:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks Zenobia Harper, Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies |
| 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Honoring Legacy: A Conversation with Professor Oneal Smalls Freewood Farms |
| 2 – 4 p.m. | The Gullah Collective Drum and Dance Workshop and Ending Performance |
Horry County Museum Classroom
805 Main St., second floor
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 11:30 am – 12:15 pm | YOUR STORY. YOUR COMMUNITY: An African American Pictorial History of Horry County Rev. Cheryl Moore Adamson, Whittemore Racepath Historical Society |
| 12:30 – 1:15 p.m. | Dunes in Bloom: Blending Environmental Restoration with Cultural Preservation on Atlantic Beach, South Carolina Jave Divine, STARD |
| 1:30 – 2:15 p.m. | Recovering the Names of the Enslaved at Hobcaw Barony Lynn Hanson and Steven Sims |
Conway Library Classroom
801 Main St., second floor
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | All Roads Lead to Atlantic Beach, SC: Celebrating the Music, Food, Miles, and Memories of Gullah Geechee Culture Pat Mallet, Atlantic Beach SC Gullah Geechee Organization |
| 12:30 – 1:15 p.m. | The Colored School Museum and Charlie’s Place Mary Cookie Goings |
| 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | The Kitchen as Laboratory: Edible Ledgers, Living Language, and the Lowcountry African Continuities Marilyn Hemmingway and Amadu Massally, The Gullah Geechee Chamber of Commerce |
Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church
1101 5th Ave.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Gullah Arts and Crafts workshops |
| 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Gullah Geechee CREATE Artists Showcase Create/SC Sea Grant Consortium Matthew Gorstein |
Horry County Library Administrative Building
1008 5th Ave.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Holding the Land Workshop Monica Graves, Center for Heirs Property Shyanne Bellamy, Communal Pen initiative |
| 1:15 – 2:15 p.m. | Gullah Geechee Culture and the Institution: Setting the Framework for Reciprocal Relationships and Rejection of Extractive Scholarship Practices Shelton Scott, Gullah Geechee Artist and lecturer |
Bryan House
606 N Main St.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 – 2 p.m. | Gullah Geechee Tea Tasting Jacque Williams, Passage Products |