Saving Sandy Island (2006) is a documentary about the struggle to save an exceptional South Carolina island and its Gullah community from development. Home to endangered species and rare long leaf pine forests, Sandy Island is the largest undeveloped freshwater island on the east coast. The program tells the story of the unique coalition of conservationists, state agencies, businessmen and community residents that came together to save this extraordinary place and preserve a historic culture.

Length: 60 minutes

Length: 330 minutes

Join Victoria Smalls as she discusses the state of affairs with the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor with commissioners, both virtually and in person.

Length: 30 minutes

Writing a grant is all about knowing grant terminology, reading grant guidelines, and following the directions. Through an actual grant example, you will understand the application format including title, statement of purpose, vision and mission, statement of need, project design, management plan, evaluation, dissemination plan, collaboration, project personnel qualifications, budget, and sustainability. The presentation takeaway is that with these basics, you will be ready to write a winning grant.

Length: 75 minutes

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 make a small decorative basket. Come be creative and add your own flare. We will also talk about basketry, clay, and the ways in which the basics needed for survival unite us all. Limited to 15 people per session.

Length: 40 minutes

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 she calls being left behind or caught up in the wake. Her analysis can be used to illuminate groups that were specifically produced as a result of the process of enslavement, those like the Gullah Geechee of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Particularly, her work offers a way to explain why the Gullah Geechee’s literary tradition, while present, is virtually invisible, relatively ignored, and excluded by the American literary tradition evidenced by the lack of critical conversation of published texts representative of the language, citizens, and cultural identity of the Gullah-Geechee. While the Gullah-Geechee have thrived despite being a product of the wake, certain aspects of the culture have not had the opportunity to become as completely visible as others. The literary tradition of the Gullah-Geechee is one such aspect.

Length: 30 minutes