12:30 p.m. | Uncovering Porgy & Bess
Presenters: Andrew Kohler ; Heather Hodges Recovering Catfish Row: Toward Centering Gullah Culture in the Gershwin’s and Heyward’s Porgy and Bess. ; ” I Heard the Angels Singing”: Documenting the
3 p.m. | Past, Purpose, and Providence: The Praise House in Gullah Geechee Communities
Presenters: Kevin J. Hales ; Anthony Sanchez Although the overall story of the Black praise house has been preserved, far too few people know of their architectural, cultural, and spiritual
3:30 p.m. | Preserving the Past and Purpose of Spirituals
Presenters: Anthony Sanchez This presentation concentrates on the ethics behind past and present approaches to ethnography, ethnomusicology and archiving Gullah Geechee and Afro-Latin language, religion, and music. I provide overviews
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10:30 a.m. | Clay Basketmaking Workshop
Presenters: Ashlyn Pope Make clay baskets with your own two hands! Using air-dry clay and basic clay hand-building techniques like pinch potting and coil building, you will learn how to
12:15 p.m. | Block Printmaking Workshop
Presenters: Ashlyn Pope This printmaking workshop will teach you a very old printmaking technique using new age materials. Block printing is an old technique that was used to spread information
2:30 p.m. | Dollmaking Workshop
Presenters: Zenobia Harper Join Georgetown-based artist Zenobia Harper as she guides you through making your own traditional doll. Harper weaves through ideas of identity, culture, and tradition. Limited to 20
All Day | History Harvest with The Athanaeum Press
Presenters: Length: all day minutes
All Day | The Art of the Haitian Voodoo Alter Installation
Presenters: Susan Kwosek Length: all day minutes
12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m. | Breath and Yoga Workshops
Presenters: Mandisa Armstrong I discovered and fell in love with yoga in 2008 as a senior in college. I had no idea the impact this would have on my life. After a
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10:30 a.m. | Wake Work in the Lowcountry: A Theory for Making Invisible Gullah Geechee Literary Culture Visible
Presenters: Raven Gadsen Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being examines the ways black being and black bodies have been continually oppressed in the aftermath of American chattel slavery, what