SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
(Last updated January 7, 2013, continue checking Jubilee website for updates and partner websites for ongoing events of interest)
SEPTEMBER 2012
What: Academic Conference: “The Fire Every Time: Reframing Black Power Across the Twentieth Century and Beyond”
Description: A public history symposium and community event featuring discussion of such topics as “Black Arts, Culture, and Music”; “Mass Incarceration, the Carceral State, and the New Jim Crow”; “Black Institutions as Black Power; and “Black Activists: Then and Now.” Invited and accepted plenary speakers include: Professors Donna Murch (Rutgers University), Cleveland Sellers (Voorhees College), Herman Blake (MUSC), Millicent Brown (Claflin University), Deborah Gray White (Rutgers University), Peniel Joseph (Tufts University), Yohuru Williams (Fairfield University), Rhonda Williams (Case Western Reserve University) and Hasan Jeffries (Ohio State University).
When: September 21-22, 2012
Where: Avery Research Center, Charleston, SC
Contact/URL: [email protected], 843-953-7607, http://avery.cofc.edu/programs/black-power- conference/
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OCTOBER 2012
What: Stage Play: Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West
Description: Flyin’ West follows the story of a small group of African American women who leave the American South in the late 1890s to set up a new life as pioneers in Nicodemus, Kansas.
When: October 4-12, 2012
Where: Emmett Robinson Theatre, Simons Center, College of Charleston, 54 St. Philip St, Charleston, SC
Contact/URL: [email protected] , (843)953-6306, http://theatre.cofc.edu/productions/index.php
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What: Opening Reception for SC State’s I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium’s Africa Revisited: The Art of Power and Identity
Description: Exhibition of major collection of African art. The Stanback has the largest collection of African Art in South Carolina and is the only museum in the State recognized by the Smithsonian African Art Library for its African collection. Recently, a new collection of African art and artifacts was donated to the Stanback by Linda and Simone Gregori, the former Director for The Texaco Corporation in Nigeria. It includes a pair of Terracotta sculptures created by the Nok civilization of Nigeria (500BC-400AD), making them over 2,000 years old and two of the oldest artworks of West Africa.
When: Opening Reception, October 26, 2012. African Market starts at 4:00 pm, reception starts at 7:00 pm. Exhibition runs from October 26, 2012 through the end of August 2013.
Where: IP Stanback Museum, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, South Carolina
Contact/URL: Ellen Zisholtz, [email protected] or 803.536.7174 or 803.928.6851.
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What: Freedom Stories Mini-Conference: Slavery, Abolition, and the Transition to Freedom
Description: Panel sessions include: Caribbean Emancipation in the late 18th Century, Frederick Douglass and the Problem of Abolition in the South , Wendell Phillips and the Problem of Abolition in the North , Confederate Government Slavery and Emancipation , Freedom Stories: Examples and Artifacts from our Early Adopter Contributors , Finding and Telling
http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/ your Family's Freedom Stories (guided by museum and library experts).
When: October 28, 2012, 2:00 pm- 5:45 pm
Where: Upcountry History Museum, Greenville, South Carolina
Contact/URL: Lloyd Benson, Department of History, Furman University, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, SC 29613; phone: (O) 864-294-3492; e-mail: [email protected]
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NOVEMBER 2012
What: Penn Center Annual Heritage Days Event
Description: A celebration of West African cultural legacies in South Carolina: includes demonstrations, story telling, musical performances, a craft fair, a fish fry, and various other cultural activities for the whole family.
When: November 8-10, 2012
Where: Penn Center National Historic Landmark District, 16 Penn Center Circle West, P.O. Box 126, St. Helena Island, SC
Contact/URL: (843) 838-2432 main; (843) 838-8552 office; [email protected], www.penncenter.com
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DECEMBER 2012
What: “Watch Night” Services
Description: A New Year’s Eve observance in local African American churches whose roots can be traced back to Freedom’s Eve Services of December 31, 1862 just prior to Emancipation.
When: December 31, 2012
Where: Charleston-area churches
Contact/URL: Office of Cultural Affairs, 180 Meeting Street, Suite 200, Charleston, SC 29401;
Phone (843) 724-7305; Fax (843) 720-3967; [email protected]
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http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/ JANUARY 2013
What: Emancipation Day Parade
Description: A parade in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Following the parade there will be a special church service at Morris Brown AME Church on Morris Street in downtown Charleston.
When: January 1, 2013
Where: Downtown Charleston/ Morris Brown AME Church, Charleston, SC
Contact/URL: [email protected]
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What: Exhibition: Witness to History: Civil Rights Era Photographs by James Karales
Description: Iconic photographs of the Civil Rights Movement taken by acclaimed photojournalist of Look magazine, James Karales.
When: January 11-May 12, 2013
Where: Gibbes Museum of Art, 135 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC
Contact/URL: [email protected] ; 843.722.2706 ext. 33
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What: Performance: Charleston Symphony Orchestra Spiritual Ensemble
Description: “Freedom Rides On: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Concert” with guest conductor Dr. Jeffrey Ames.
When: January 21, 2013, 5:00 PM
Where: Morris Street Baptist Church, 25 Morris Street, Charleston
Contact/URL: [email protected], http://www.csospiritual.com/
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What: Integration at Clemson: A Legacy of Inclusion
Description: A banquet to open a series of public programming celebrating the 50th anniversary of Clemson University’s desegregation, designed to educate and inspire students, faculty, staff and alumni.
http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/ When: January 26, 2013
Where: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Contact/URL: [email protected], http://clemson.edu/diversityoffice/50years
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What: Academic Conference: “They All Declare for Liberty . . .” Southern American Studies Association 2013 Annual Conference.
Description: Southern American Studies Association Conference with keynote speakers historians Eric Foner and Tiya Miles focusing on themes of “emancipation,” “liberty,” and “freedom.”
When: January 29, 2013
Where: Charleston, SC (location to be announced)
Contact/URL: [email protected], http://sasa.cci.fsu.edu/
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What: Presentation, "Reflections of St. Helena Island"
Description: Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation will do a histo-musical presentation incorporating historical documents that are part of what took place on St. Helena Island, SC as the Reconstruction Era began in the United States. Victoria Smalls, Director of History & Cultural Programs of Penn Center, Inc. will do a reading from the “Diary of Charlotte Forten” who was the first African American instructor at Penn School, the first trade, agricultural, and normal school for freedmen. These presentations will be free and open to the public, and set in the midst of the exhibition “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War.” This exhibition opened December 31st and will close on February 2, 2013
When: January 30, 2013, 6:00 PM
Where: St. Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis Sr. Road, St. Helena Island, SC 29920, Phone: (843) 255-6486
Contact/URL: (843) 838-1171 or [email protected]. Website for event details: http://gullahgeecheenation.com/2013/01/04/queen-quet-chieftess-of-the-gullahgeechee-nation- host-reflections-of-st-helena-island/
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http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/ FEBRUARY 2013
What: “Circa 1871: An Ode to the Fisk Jubilee Singers”
Description: Musical performance in honor of African American History Month.
When: February 3, 2013, 5:00 PM
Where: Sottile Theatre, College of Charleston, 44 George Street, Charleston 29401
Contact/URL: (843) 991-1035, [email protected], http://www.csospiritual.com/
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What: Theater Performance: “A Woman Called Truth”
Description: A Woman Called Truth chronicles the remarkable story of Sojourner Truth from the day she was a slave girl and sold away from her family, through her struggle to free herself and her son, to her emergence as revered leader and farsighted advocate for abolition, and visionary pioneer for women's rights. A Woman Called Truth combines Truth's actual words with authentic slave songs, spirituals, and folk songs of the period to tell a moving and powerful story.
When: February 15 –March 3, 2013, various performance times
Where: Charleston Stage at the Dock, Dock Street Theatre,135 Church Street, Charleston, SC 29401
Contact/URL: (843) 577-7183, http://www.charlestonstage.com/shows-and-tickets/the- shows/30-a-woman-called-truth.html
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What: African American Heritage Days
Description: A celebration of African American heritage from its roots in Africa to its branches in the Caribbean and the Americas - especially South Carolina. African American history and culture offered through a variety of performances, re-enactments, demonstrations, hands-on activities, and much more.
When: February 22, 2013
Where: Wannamaker County Park, North Charleston, SC
Contact/URL: 843.889.8898 ext. 606, www.ccprc.com
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http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/ What: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Wings of Atlanta Conference
Description: CAU celebrates the life and scholarship of W.E.B. Du Bois upon the 50th anniversary of his passing with a conference dedicated to the work of the author, scholar, and activist.
When: February 20-23, 2013
Where: Clark Atlanta University
Contact/URL: [email protected], Professorevans.net/SWAG, http://www.cau.edu/CMFiles/Docs/CAU2013DuBoisConferenceCFP.pdf
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What: Lecture and workshop series: “Education for Emancipation: Postbellum African American Schooling and Liberation in the South”
Description: The Department of Teacher Education and the College of Charleston is pleased to welcome Dr. James Anderson and Dr. Christopher Span from the University of Illinois for a series of workshops and lectures, entitled “Education for Emancipation: Postbellum African American Schooling and Liberation in the South.” The guest lectures and workshops will focus on research that examines the history of African American education in the South from 1860- 1935 and the integral role education played in the liberation of slaves and the formation of free communities across the South.
When: February 20-21, 2013.
February 20, 4:00-6:00 pm: “Addressing the Achievement Gap: Education and the Promises of Freedom,” workshop and student-panel led by Dr. Christopher Span that addresses the history of the Achievement Gap and its implication for schools today.
February 21, 11:00 am-12:30 pm: “’Somebody Had to Do It’: Reflections on Education in South Carolina 50 Years After Desegregation,” a community panel discussion with Millicent Brown and other students who desegregated South Carolina schools in 1963.
Where: All events located at the Education, Health and Human Performance Alumni Center, 86 Wentworth Street, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Contact/URL: [email protected], http://ehhp.cofc.edu/centers/cpie/index.php
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What: Civil Rights Era Panel Exhibit Opening
http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/ Description: Join the Preservation Society of Charleston as we co-host an exhibit opening with the International African American Museum. The exhibit features six panels on the modern Civil Rights era in Charleston. The Society listed these Civil Rights era sites on its Seven to Save list in 2011. Admission is free and open to the public.
When: February 21, 2013, 6-8 pm
Where: 147 King Street, Charleston, South Carolina.
Contact/URL: Aurora Harris, 843-722-4630, www.preservationsociety.org
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What: “Hidden Histories—Rice and Liberty: The Stono Rebellion”
Description: Caw Caw Interpretive Center’s Cultural History Specialist will lead participants in a program examining artifact replicas, and walking through former rice fields and the swamp at Caw Caw in an attempt to uncover the history behind one of the most significant events in the history of American slavery—the Stono Rebellion of 1739.
When: February 28, 2013
Where: Caw Caw Interpretive Center, Hollywood, SC
Contact/URL: 843.889.8898 ext. 606, www.ccprc.com
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What: “Tru Emancipation een de Gullah/Geechee Nation"
Description: A Gullah/Geechee history exhibit will be on display throughout the day and a series of interactive panels and dialogue circles on what Emancipation has meant to Gullah/Geechees from 1865 to the present day will take place.
When: February 28, 2013
Where: Riley Center for Livable Communities, 284A King Street Charleston, SC.
Contact/URL: (843) 838-1171, [email protected]; www.gullahgeecheenation.com
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MARCH 2013
http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/ What: Academic Conference: “Dreams Deferred, Promises and Struggles: Perceptions and Interrogations of Empire, Nation and Society by Peoples of African Descent”
Description: Biennial international conference sponsored by the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) focusing on the struggles peoples of African descent have faced in the United States as well as throughout the world.
When: March 13-16, 2013
Where: Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Atlanta, GA
Contact/URL: [email protected], http://www.caar-web.org/
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What: African Literature Association conference: “Literature, Liberation, and the Law”
Description: An academic conference focusing on the extent to which writing (statute books or literature) can bring about liberation, featuring Keynote Speakers: Leonora Miano, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Justice Albie Sachs, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Cleveland Sellers.
When: March 20-24, 2013
Where: College of Charleston and Marriott Hotel on Lockwood Drive, Charleston, SC
Contact/URL: 843-953-1920, [email protected], http://claw.cofc.edu/ala/conference.html
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What: Lecture by Dr. Derek Alderman, "Pressing the RESET button on Southern Hospitality: African American Belonging and Tourism Justice"
Description: Annual lecture from the Geography department at the College of Charleston, given by Dr. Derek Alderman, Chair of the Geography Department at the University of Tennessee, a geographer who has long worked on issues of justice in the South.
When: March 26, 2013, 4:00 PM
Where: Physicians Memorial Auditorium, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Contact/URL: [email protected]
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What: Public symposium: “Lowcountry Rice Culture”
Description: A symposium examining the centrality of rice to lowcontry history and culture.
http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/ When: March 29-30, 2013 [may be postponed to Fall, 2013]
Where: College of Charleston and Middleton Place
Contact/URL: [email protected]
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APRIL 2013
What: Public performance: Fisk Jubilee Singers
Description: Performance of the internationally acclaimed Fisk Jubilee Singers, whose origins date back to 1871 when they first brought “Negro spirituals” to the world.
When: April 5, 2013
Where: Location to be announced
Contact/URL: (843) 953-7609, [email protected], avery.cofc.edu
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What: 77th Annual Meeting of the University of South Carolina’s South Caroliniana Society
Description: Edna Medford, chair of the History Department at Howard University, will be speaking at the 77th annual meeting of the University of South Carolina’s South Caroliniana Society, the patron organization of the South Caroliniana Library on the subject of the Emancipation Proclamation with a reception at the South Caroliniana Library from 11-12:30.
When: April 6, 2013
Where: University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Contact/URL: 803-777-5747, [email protected]; http://library.sc.edu/socar/index.html
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What: Thomas Mayhem Pinckney Alliance Reception
Description: The Thomas Mayhem Pinckney Alliance is an advocacy committee of the Preservation Society of Charleston. Named after the African American craftsmen that helped society founder Susan Pringle Frost in much of her preservation work, the alliance will host a reception to raise funds for the implementation of five state historic markers related to the Civil Rights era in Charleston. Tickets are $40.
When: Friday, April 12, 2013
http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/ Where: 91 Spring Street, Charleston, South Carolina
Contact/URL: Aurora Harris, 843-722-4630, www.preservationsociety.org
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What: Modern Civil Rights Era Site Marker Unveilings
Description: After listing Civil Rights Era sites on the 2011 Seven to Save list, The Preservation Society of Charleston will unveil 5 markers at 5 sites important to the Civil Rights Movement in Charleston. Each unveiling will include a guest speaker.
When: Friday, April 13, 2013
Where: Charleston, South Carolina: 3381 River Road, 90 Spring Street, 701 East Bay Street, 281 King Street, MUSC
Contact/URL: Aurora Harris, 843-722-4630, www.preservationsociety.org
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MAY/JUNE 2013
What: Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival Association
Description: Festival celebrating Gullah Geechee cultural heritage; includes arts and crafts, live performances, storytelling, skits, Gullah cuisine, and a large showcase of sweetgrass baskets.
When: Late May/Early June, 2012
Where: Mt. Pleasant Waterfront Memorial Park, Mt. Pleasant, SC
Contact/URL: 843-856-9732, www.sweetgrassfestivsal.org
Additional events will be added as their details are finalized for taking part in the project through to November 2013. Many of our partner sites hold regularly scheduled events relevant to the themes the Jubilee Project is exploring, please see the Jubilee website for partner list and links to their websites for ongoing event information, http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/
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AUGUST 2013
What: Gullah/Geechee Nation International Music and Movement Festival 2013
Description: Various music and movement events, including tours, presentations, and tribute ceremony. See website for more information: http://www.gullahgeechee.info/
http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/ When: August 2-4, 2013
Where: Various locations in Beaufort County area, South Carolina
Contact/URL: http://www.gullahgeechee.info/; [email protected]
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