2019 Official Guide
Artwork by Jason Crawford 30th Annual Zora Neale HurstonTM Festival of the Arts and Humanities
Saturday, January 26 – Sunday, February 3, 2019
Outdoor Festival of Arts in Historic Eatonville Friday-Sunday, February 1-3 Admission: 17 & Under-Free Adult Admission at the gate, Saturday & Sunday: $15 each day Cash only, please
Presented by the Assocation to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.) • Eatonville, Florida 2 | Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities | 2019 Program What’s Inside?
16 FESTIVAL PRESENTERS
30 LOCATOR MAP
32 HEADLINE PERFORMERS
26 PROGRAM SCHEDULE • Global Conversations Conferences • HBCU/HBTSA Summit • ZORA! Festival Hosts Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Conferences
52 SPONSORS & COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS
OFFICIAL GUIDE CREDITS Editor: N. Y. Nathiri Compiled by Christopher Peace Design: Rupert Deleveaux / Wendy Vandenbrock Map Design: Trent Tomengo
57 P.E.C. STAFF N.Y. Nathiri, Executive Director Prof. Lonnie Graham, Resident Curator Eric Studstill, Museum & Operations Assistant Rajkumarie Bergalowski, Accounting Excellence Without Excuse (E-WE) Community Computer Lab & Learning Center*
* Major funding provided by Orange County Citizens’ Commission for Children Copyright 2019 The Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. Use of content herein must be acknowledged as property of the organization
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January 26, 2019
Greetings to All Who Have Traveled from Near or Far,
On behalf the the entire family here at the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, I extend a warm welcome to you to the 30th Annual Zora Neale Hurston™ Festival of the Arts and Humanities (ZORA!™ Festival)!
For this special milestone year, our organization has “gone back to the basics,” doing all that we can to uphold, in the finest fashion, the Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston. As board president, I am particularly proud of our K-12 programs. Executive director, N. Y. Nathiri and her team, in conjunction with a host of collaborative partners, have worked tirelessly to bring forward for students strong literature-based offerings, STEM programs, as well as, for the first time, a performance schedule where the kids will be the stars on the Center Stage on “Education,Day,” Friday, February 1. And, as always, the kids have free admission all three days of the Outdoor Festival of the Arts.
As I wish for you a wonderful festival experience during this “Global Celebration,” I ask that you make a donation to our organization -- help ensure that future generations will know the story of Zora Neale Hurston and of her work; will learn about the historic significance of her hometown, Eatonville; and will be able to celebrate the cultural contributions which people of African ancestry have made to the United States and to the world.
God Bless,
Chad McKendrick
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Our Governing Board (Officers)
Tadayuki (Tad) Hara, Ph.D. Joshua Smith-Benson, PharmD. Vice President Treasurer
Harietta Finley White Marie-José Francois, M.D. Secretary Immediate Past President
Our Governing Board (Members)
Ava K. Doppelt, Esq. Reginald B. McGill Alberta W. Godfrey Thomas S. Kornegay
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ZORA! Festival National Planners Known affectionately as “The Brain Trust,” this distinguished groupof cultural artists and scholars is responsible for the award-winning stature of ZORA! Festival.
N.Y. Nathiri, Chair, Executive Director, Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.) Anne V. Adams, Ph.D., SUNY Cortland/Cornell University, Ithaca Julian C. Chambliss, Ph.D., Michigan State University, Lansing Deidre Helen Crumbley, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, North Carolina State University, Raleigh José B. Fernández, Ph.D., (Retired), University of Central Florida, Orlando Mayor Johnny Ford, President, Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance, Inc., Tuskegee Lois Hurston Gaston, Ph.D., Co-Trustee, Zora Neale Hurston Trust Lonnie Graham, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Maryemma Graham, Ph.D., University of Kansas, Lawrence Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Ph.D., Spellman College, Atlanta Eleanor Traylor, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Howard University, Washington, D.C. Stephen Caldwell Wright, Ph.D., (Retired), Seminole State College of Florida, Sanford
ZORA! Festival Academics Committee These members serve as the management for the conference’s humanities programming and logistics.
Anna Lillios, Ph.D., Department of English, University of Central Florida, Orlando Julian C. Chambliss, Ph.D., Professor, Department of English and History, Michigan State University, Lansing Scot French, Ph.D., Department of History, University of Central Florida, Orlando Trent Tomengo Professor of Humanities, Seminole State College of Florida, Sanford Clarissa West-White, Ph.D., Reference Librarian, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach
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Key Persons Management Team These members are the “on the ground” festival leaders.
Consultants: Terri Vismale-Morris, ZORA! Festival Director for Public Relations & Marketing Rhea Posey, Social Media Kerry Charles Daise, Coordinator for Vending Carolyn Atkins, Coordinator for Volunteers Maye St. Julien, Interiors
Executive Staff: Gwen Covington, Administration & Sponsor Relations Ruford Shepherd, Physical Plant Lester Cunningham, Yards & Gardens Club of Historic Eatonville Coolidge Hargrett, Security/Public Safety Liaison Cynthia Haywood, Festival Support Christopher Peace, Graduate Intern, History of Black Writing University of Kansas
Volunteer Managers: Davita Bonner, Bethune-Cookman University, Coordinator for Student Volunteers Robert Boston, Outdoor Festival—Concert Stage Louise Franklin, Sunday Morning Worship Service Gracie Mitchell, Hospitality Services Jacqueline Walters, Representing Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc, Make-and -Take Tent Maryemma Graham, Ph.D., The Literary Space Joshua Walker, Mike Felix, and Tiffany Spencer, Black Orlando Tech Sheree Greer and Slam Anderson, Kitchen Table Literary Arts Center Louissteen Cummings, Town of Eatonville Residentsn Kevin James Findlay, “Education Day” Coordinator
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Monday, January 28
Chef Jen The owner of DaJen Eats Cafe & Creamery, Chef Jen first established the business in Orlando – the first vegan restaurant in a gas station. While there she and her team were selected as best Caribbean restaurant by Orlando Weekly and Orlando Sentinel. They later relocated to the historic town of Eatonville, where they continue to spread the joys of a compassionate, plant-based lifestyle. Chef Jen created Irie Cream, a line of deliciously dairyfree ice cream – recently listed as one of the Top 50 Desserts in the US, by VegNews Magazine. She came to America alone at 16, quickly learning in order to continue enjoying certain luxuries like eating and living inside, she needed to stop eating out. That started her love-affair with cooking and food science. She has learned some great tips and techniques along the way. She’s shared them with you. Let’s cook together.
Find us at www.DaJenEats.com and on Instagram and Facebook @DaJenEats.
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Tuesday, January 29 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM
Grant Cornwell, Ph.D. President of Rollins College Grant Cornell is nationally recognized for his work in defining liberal learning in a global environment. He writes regularly about multi-culturalism, freedom, diversity, and global citizenship. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and biology from St. Lawrence, and master’s and doctoral degrees in philosophy from the University of Chicago.
Zienzi Dillon, Ph.D. With over 30 years solid banking experience in Africa, including international exposure through work attachments at the World Bank, Washington D.C.; Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Bank of England and Standard Bank London, Dr. Dillon ranks as a financial expert. Recently retired from Barclays Africa, she currently serves as CEO for Carmel Global Capital and is also the president Marketing- place Calling International (NCI), launched in 2008.
José B. Fernández, Ph.D. A member of the ZORA! Festival National Planners, Dr. José B. Fernández is Pegasus Professor of History and Spanish at the University of Central Florida. A former President of the Florida Historical Society and former Chair of the Florida Folklife Council, to Study the Potential Creation of the National Commission of the American Latino. He is immediate past Dean of UCF’s College of Arts and Humanities.
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Tuesday, January 29 • 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Luncheon
Ambassador Peter Romero (Retired) Ambassador Peter Romero, now retired, has spent over 40 years as a globalist practitioner. He served for twenty-five years as a career diplomat and was honored to have been chosen as Chief of Mission in El Salvador, Ambassador in Ecuador and Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the Department of State. He is the recipient of several awards for leadership under circumstances of duress. Since his retirement, he has advised multinational companies on foreign investments and advises governments on holistic approaches to security problems. He lectures at Georgetown University’s graduate School of Foreign Service, as well as military service schools at Fort Leavenworth (US Army) and Quantico, VA (Marine Corps headquarters). He is currently co-producer and co-moderator of the podcast American Diplomat.
Laura Bennett Laura Bennett is a writer and producer for the podcast American Diplomat. She earned an MFA in film and television production at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she was awarded a merit-based Tisch School of the Arts scholarship. She has written, directed, produced and edited short films that have won 11 awards and screened at 35 festivals throughout the United States, and has also written three feature-length screenplays. Laura speaks Spanish, French and English and has traveled in five continents, often solo and working as a volunteer. In addition to filmmaking, Laura has an MBA from the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business and works as professor and as a strategy consultant on non-profit and government projects aimed at promoting the public good.
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Tuesday, January 29 • 1:30 – 2:45 PM
Pamela McCauley, Ph.D. A professor of industrial engineering at the University of Central Florida, College of Engineering & Computer Science, and a seasoned entrepreneur, Dr. McCauley’s experience includes leading humans back to research, systems analysis, and fuzzy modeling. Her previous National Science Foundation funding has been in her technical areas and in research projects devoted to enhancing participation of under-represented minorities and women in engineering education and careers.
Henry (Hank) Okraski Hank Okraski has over fifty years of experience in simulation and training research, acquisition and logistic support for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, non-DoD agencies and foreign governments. He is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in training simulation. He is a visionary with a record of developing new and innovative concepts in simulation for military and civilian uses, and he is active in developing professional certification and academic programs to foster simulation technology in K-12, community colleges and universities.
Joshua Walker Joshua “TechDez” Walker is a senior cloud engineer + diversity advocate who uses commonplace examples with humorous pop culture storytelling to train, inspire, and relate to everyday people who have an interest in technology. He has been featured on PBS’ Nerd Night Spotlight; and is a co-founder of Black Orlando Tech; and is a frequent keynote speaker for tech education.
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Wednesday, January 30 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM
Mayor Edward Jones Edward R. Jones was sworn in for his second consecutive term as the 7th mayor of the city of Grambling, Louisiana, on December 30, 2014. He had previously served eight years (two terms) on the Grambling City Council and as Mayor Pro Tempore during his second term. Prior to becoming an elected official, Mayor Jones spent nine years as a public-school teacher in California and Louisiana. He later joined the English faculty at Grambling State University, a position from which he retired after twenty-five years of service.
Dr. Tadayuki (Tad) Hara, Ph.D. Dr. Tadayuki Hara, an associate professor & senior research fellow at the Dick Pope Sr. Institute for Tourism Studies, joined the UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management in 2005 from School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. From 2008-2010, he served as interim associate dean, and in 2010 was named associate dean of finance and administration. Before his career in academia, he spent 19 years working in global wholesale investment banking and foreign services.
Nadia Ahmad, Esq. Nadia B. Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Law at Barry University School of Law. Professor Ahmad’s research explores the intersections of energy siting, the environment, and sustainable development and draws on international investment law and corporate social responsibility. In 2016, she was recognized by the Orlando Business Journal as a 40 Under 40 honoree for her leadership and community involvement. She recently served as Co-Chair of the ABA Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice’s Environmental Justice Committee, which was presented with the 2016-2017 ABA Committee Excellence Award.
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Wednesday, January 30 • 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Luncheon
Ambassador Harriet Elam-Thomas (Retired) United States diplomat and university professor who directs the Diplomacy Program under International and Global Studies at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, Ambassador Thomas served as the United States Ambassador to Senegal from 2000 – 2002, From 2003 – 2005, Thomas served as Diplomat-in-Residence at UCF under the auspices of a national U.S. Department of State program. She was the U.S. Department of State’s official liaison in Central Florida, conducting workshops, providing information on careers, connecting students to internship and scholarship opportunities, and speaking on policy matters. In her capacity at UCF, Thomas is shaping a global initiative with education and training for both students and professionals. Until the fall of 2005, she was a Senior Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Career Minister. Previously, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to Senegal (1999–2002); Acting Deputy Director of the U.S. Information Agency; Public Affairs Counselor at the American Embassy in Brussels, Belgium; Cultural Attaché at the American Embassy in Athens, Greece; and Director of the American Press and Cultural Center in Istanbul, Turkey. Her numerous awards include The Director General’s Cup for the Foreign Service (the most prestigious honor for former foreign service officers), the U.S. Government’s Superior Honor Award and a Meritorious Honor Award for her work in connection with wthe first Persian Gulf War. She holds a B.S. in International Business from Simmons College (Massachusetts) and an M.A. in Public Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, as well as four honorary doctorates. From 2003 – 2006, she served on the Senior Advisory Group of the United States European Command, which was then headed by General James Jones. She is the recent author of Diversifying Diplomacy: My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar. A member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, she currently is on the board of the Cultural Academy for Excellence, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and the Institute for International Education. In addition to English, she speaks French, Greek and Turkish.
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Wednesday, January 30 • 1:30 – 2:45 PM
This conversation and the breakout session which follows are being curated by The World Conference of Mayors (WCM).
Her Excellency Arikana Chihombari Quao David Kuan-chou Chien M.D., African Union Director-General, Taipei Economics Ambassador to the United States and Cultural Affairs Office in Miami
Jean Pierre Mbassi, Secretary-General Oliver Carabali Banguero, Mayor United Cities and Local Governments, Africa Canca, Columbia, South America (UCLGA)
The World Conference of Mayors, Inc. (WCM), founded and organized in April 1984, is a non-profit, non-political worldwide conference, comprised of mayors, former mayors, and other elected and appointed local public officials.
Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities | 2019 Program | 21 HBCU Summit Presenters
Thursday, January 31 • 8:00 – 12:30 PM
Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Ph.D. Prime Investigator, Project Manager Dr. Michelle Bachelor Robinson is the Director of the Comprehensive Writing Program and a professor of African American Writing and Rhetoric at Spelman College. Her research and teaching focus on community engagement, historiography, PhotoVoice as a research methodology, African American rhetoric and literacy, composition pedagogy and theory, and student and program assessment. She serves as a community partner for the historic Black town of Hobson City, Alabama, where she is actively involved in community research, oral history collection, and community writing. She also serves as a university partner, consultant, and board member for the Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance, Inc. and she is a member of the ZORA! Festival National Planners.
Andrea Roberts, Ph.D. Dr. Andrea Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Faculty Fellow of the Center for Heritage Conservation as well as the Institute for Sustainable Communities at Texas A&M University. Courses she teachings include Critical Place Studies, Planning History and Theory, and Neighborhood Revitalization. She is the founder of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project, a research & social justice initiative, documenting America’s forgotten Black geographies.
Carmen Kynard, Ph.D. Dr. Carmen Kynard is associate professor of English and Gender Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and associate professor of English, Urban Education, and Critical Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She interrogates race, Black feminisms, AfroDigital/African American cultures and languages, and the politics of schooling with an emphasis on composition and literacies studies.
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Thursday, January 31 • 8:00 – 12:30 PM
Sharon Davies , Ph.D. Dr. Sharon Davies is the provost and vice president of academic affairs at Spelman College. Davies’ career experiences span both academic and non-academic fields. She joins Spelman from The Ohio State University where she was vice provost for Diversity and Inclusion and chief diversity officer. Davies was also a member of OSU’s Moritz College of Law faculty for 22 years, serving as the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Jerry Ward, Ph.D. A retired Professor of English, Richard Wright scholar, and literary critic, Dr. Ward lives in New Orleans. He taught for 32 years at Tougaloo College and 10 years at Dillard University. He is a recipient of numerous awards and honors. Most recently, he received the Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award from the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration. And in 2018, the College Language Association Daryl Cumber Dance Award for lifetime achievement.
Aman Nadhiri, Ph.D. Dr. Aman Nadhiri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at Johnson C. Smith University, where he teaches English literature and Arabic. He earned his doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in Medieval Literature and minored in Arabic. His book, Saracens and Franks in 12th – 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature: Perceptions of Self and Other, explores the ways in which individuals and societies approach difference.
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Thursday, January 31 • 12:00 – 12:30 PM
Julian C. Chambliss, Ph.D. Dr. Julian C. Chambliss is Professor of English with a Joint Appointment in History at Michigan State University. In addition, he is a core participant in the MSU College of Arts & Letters’ Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR). His research interests focus on the race, identity, and power in real and imagined urban spaces. His recent writing has appeared in Frieze, Rhetoric Review, Boston Review, Florida Historical Quarterly, Journal of Urban History and Studies in America. An inter- disciplinary scholar he has designed museum exhibitions, curated art shows, and created public digital history projects that trace community, identity, and power in the American South. In addition, he has published opinion and commentary in popular forums such as the Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio (NPR), and Orlando Sentinel.
David Abraham, Ph.D. Dr. Abraham is a scholar of urban planning and environmental policy, specializing in sustainability planning and urban performance measurement. His research interests focus on developing sustainability strategies for the enhancement of community planning systems. His research and professional experience includes food insecurity planning, health and well-being impacts from the built environment, urban forestry sustainability strategies, resiliency and revitalization community planning, and community performance metrics. He also has had experience with developing consensus building techniques for public participation/community involvement support for the identification and delineation of planning objectives.
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Friday, February 1 • 9:30 – 10:45 AM
Zora Neale Hurston Arts and Humanites Lecturer
Everett L. Fly, Landscape Architect, FASLA; Architect, NCARB Certified. Fly is a native and resident, with his wife Rosalinda, of San Antonio, Texas. He practices as a registered landscape architect (Texas); and registered architect (Texas). He attended the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture degree (5-year professional) with honors in 1975. In June of 1977, he became the first Black American to earn the Master in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). In 1995, he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the second Black American in the one hundred and fifteen year ASLA history. Mr. Fly taught as an assistant professor of architecture in the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin (1977 – 1982); a visiting instructor at the University of California at Berkeley (1985); Texas A & M University Department of Landscape Architecture (1986); and Trinity University Department of History (2014). Mr. Fly has held key roles in various interdisciplinary planning and design projects around the United States, including the Texas State Capitol Extension & Preservation (Principal Land- scape Architect), Austin, Texas; Idlewild, Michigan Cultural Economic Development Readiness Initiative (team leader/Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries); America By Design 5-part PBS American design film series (advisory panel member/Guggenheim Productions, w/Spiro Kostof as narrator/National Endowment for the Arts); National Register Listing of Buffalo, New York Zoo Gates by African American Architect John Edmonston Brent/Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor, Buffalo, New York. Mr. Fly served on the Board of Review for the National Register of Historic Places, Texas from 1980 – 1986. He served as the Mayor’s Appointee to the City of San Antonio Board of Historic and Design Commission from 1988-1994. He served as an elected board member of the TexasCouncil for the Humanities from 1988-1999 (two years as board secretary; one year as board vice chair; two years as board chair). From 1994 – 2001 Mr. Fly served an appointment by President William Jefferson Clinton to the 34 member President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. In February, 1994 Mr. Fly chaired the Landscape Architecture, Urban Design & Planning Jury of the Presidential Design Awards. In 2015 President Barack Obama awarded Mr. Fly with one of the ten 2014 National Humanities Medal for his body of work preserving the integrity of African-American places and landmarks. The National Humanities Medal is the highest honor that the Federal government can bestow upon an individual. The San Antonio Power of Preservation Foundation awarded Mr. Fly its “Champion of Preservation Award” in the fall of 2018 for his work exposing, preserving and conserving the city and county wide presence of African American history.
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Friday, February 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Deborah G. Plant, Ph.D. Deborah G. Plant is an English literature and Africana Studies scholar and literary critic whose special interest is the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston. Her books on Hurston include Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston; The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston, 20 essays on recent findings and issues in Hurston studies, and Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit. Plant has been the keynote speaker for National Endowment for the Arts Big Read programs on Their Eyes Were Watching God. She has served as a consultant, resource, and speaker at Fort Pierce’s ZoraFest over several years.
Trudier Harris, Ph.D. Dr. Harris is University Distinguished Research Professor in English at the University of Alabama and formerly J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author and/or editor of 25 volumes, including Fiction and Folklore; The Novels of Toni Morrison (1991); The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan (1996); The Scary Mason-Dixon Line; African American Writers and the South (2009); and Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature (2014). Having received countless awards and recognitions, most recently she was named the 2018 recipient of the Clarence E. Cason Award for Nonfiction Writing, an honor that she shares with six Pulitzer Prize winners.
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Friday, February 1 • 2:00 – 3:30 PM
Ruthe Sheffey, Ph.D. Dr. Sheffey received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English form Morgan (now known as Morgan State University) in Baltimore; went on to earn a Masters of Arts degree form Howard University (Washington, D.C.) and her Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She also engaged in post-doctoral study at The Johns Hopkins University. Respected as an outstanding teacher, Dr. Sheffey is a distinguished member of the academy, having received numerous recognitions for her scholarly work as well as for her service to the field. As a pioneer of feminist scholarship in the United States, Dr. Sheffey inspired and guided the world’s appreciation for Zora Neale Hurston, and in 1984 established at Morgan State University the Zora Neale Hurston Society, “a first” on the campus of any American college or university. Dr. Sheffey is “A ZORA! Festival Favorite.”
Cheryl Wall, Ph.D. Dr. Wall is Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English at Rutgers University, where she has taught thousands of undergraduates and directed a score of dissertations in the field of African American literary study. Zora Neale Hurston has been the subject of and inspiration for much of her scholarship. In each of the nine books she has written or edited, Hurston’s writing has played a role. Hurston’s novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine was the source for the title Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women, a critical anthology edited by Cheryl Wall and published by Rutgers University Press in 1989. In the novel Amy Crittenden announces her determination to “change jes ez as many words ez Ah durn please!” What Amy Crittenden seeks and her husband denies her is the reciprocal give and take of ideas. The spirit of exchange is at the heart of the anthology’s conversation. Its contributors exchange ideas with black women writers, with critics, with theorists, and with each other. Professor Wall’s latest book, A Very Short Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance (2016), locates Hurston’s work in the context of an international black cultural awakening.
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Friday, February • 3:45 – 5:00 PM
Irina Morozova, Ph.D. As a professor of Comparative Studies, Irina Morozova is a Doctor Hab. of Philology, a Professor, Professor of Comparative Studies of Literature Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities. After her post-graduated study in Leningrad, she received a Fulbright Research opportunity at the University of Central Florida in 2001. She authored more than 100 articles and one book The Old South in the Women Prose of the XIXth Century. Dr. Morozova is interested in American women literature, American South culture and literature, comparative studies, African American literature, and imagology.
Marumi Nishigauchi, Professor Marumi Nishigauchi has been a professor at the Nagano College of Nursing since 2004 and a president of Multi-Ethnic Studies Association of Japan since 2015. Her recent main works are The Voices of Clothing and Fashion in American Literature (2017; anthology chief editor); Women’s Messages in Disguise (2017), Magnolia Flower; Selected Short Stories of Zora Neale Hurston (2016; co-translator); Irish Colleens in America (2016), Julia Ward Howe and ‘The Battle Hymn of Republic (2016); Traveling Opera Companies as a Reflection of a Country and an Era (2015); The Frontiers in Ethnic Studies (2014; anthology co-editor), and Reading the Short Stories of Zora Neale Hurston (2014).
Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Ph.D. Dr. Patterson is associate professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, and History at Vanderbilt University. She has published Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life (2005), a study of early 20th century black communities set within the history of all-Black towns, maroon societies, and nationalist traditions. She is also Associate Editor of the 16-volume Black Women in United States History. Since 2002, she has served as a senior editor of Palimpsest; A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.
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Saturday, February 2
Glenn Jones There is no stopping Grammy Nominated Producer and Artist GLENN JONES. With his second new single, “You & Me”, a forthcoming CD Love By Design, an upcoming tour, and his non-profit, The Love Jones Foundation, Jones is a music force to be reckoned with. Marketing, imaging and sleek packaging aside, GLENN JONES clearly understands the dynamics of creating a solid vocal performance and has consistently delivered. “I’ve been in the game for over 30 years, and I am blessed to still be doing my thing. I owe it all to the creator. My mother told me two things that I’ll never forget, and that is, my talent would make room for me, and that my life is in God’s hands, and I believe that.” Jones is also the founder of his non-profit, The Love Jones Foundation (LJF), established in memory of his mother-Ella Lee Jones. The foundation provides educational programs to youth and music therapy to the elderly. Promotional materials provided by the performer.
Shirley Murdock Seasoned singer/songwriter/actor Shirley Murdock, has been on an amazing journey. In the early `80s, she aimed for a gospel career before the late great Roger Troutman, funk bandleader for the group Zapp discovered her and landed her a record deal with Elektra Records, where she recorded her first Certified Gold cd, as well as several Top 10 R&B hits such like As We Lay, Go On Without You, Husband and In Your Eyes. She not only performed on, but co-wrote the Zapp R&B hit single, Computer Love. Shirley stands along side of her husband of 30 years, Rev. Dale Anthony DeGroat, Assistant Pastor of Second Missionary Baptist Church, Springfield, Ohio and Senior Pastor of Praying4You Ministries, an online and teleconference church without walls in which she is an associate minister. They are the proud parents of one son, Devin Alexander DeGroat. Shirley not only enjoys the special connection between herself and her fans on and off stage, but she also enjoys encouraging young people to dream big dreams and serving her community. All of Shirley’s music, along with her latest EP: Good Man/The Little Things/ Call Me, are available at her product table, iTunes, Amazon and retail stores everywhere.
Promotional materials provided by the performer.
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Sunday, February 3
Miles Jaye Bold, dynamic, passionate; vocalist/jazz violinist Miles Jaye (born Miles Jaye Davis) is one of a kind. Jaye began his professional music career touring the great jazz festivals of Europe–Montreaux, North Sea, Nice (France) and Capitol (London) - featured on vocals, electric violin, flute and keys with guitarist Eric Gale, and vocalists Phyllis Hyman and Jon Lucien. After a two-year world-tour as lead singing Village People “Cop” his solo career was launched on Island Records as a Teddy Pendergrass protege. The MILES, IRRESISTIBLE and STRONG - CD’s yielded the Billboard chart topping singles, “Let’s Start Love Over” (w/Roy Ayers), “Heaven,” “Objective” (w/ Grover Washington, Jr.) and the classic hit “I’ve Been A Fool For You.” Miles Jaye epitomizes artistic brilliance. He is an author and visual artist and is as passionate on his red violin as he is with his soulful voice and with over 21 CD’s to his credit; the most recent being GOD’S CREATION, ATTENERGY and 360. Promotional materials provided by the performer.
The Motown “Tribute” Review Show “Direct from Las Vegas,” the Show will spotlight • Marvin Gaye • Gladys Knight & Pips • Smokey Robinson & Miracles • Diana Ross & Supremes • The Temptations
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Literary Icon & ZORA! Festival Family Member
Alice Walker Alice Walker has been defined as one of the key international writers’ of the 20th century. Walker made history as the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature as well as the National Book Award in 1983 for her novel “The Color Purple,” one of the few literary books to capture the popular imagination and leave a permanent imprint. The award-winning novel served as the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film and was adapted for the stage, opening at New York City’s Broadway Theatre in 2005, and capturing a Tony Award for best leading actress in a musical in 2006. An internationally celebrated author, poet and activist, Walker’s books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Walker has written many additional best sellers; among them, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), which detailed the devastating effects of female genital mutilation and led to the 1993 documentary Warrior Marks, a collaboration with the British-Indian filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, with Walker as executive producer. Walker’s work has been translated into more than two-dozen languages, and her books have sold more than fifteen million copies. Back in 2015, during what she calls “a time of great sadness and feelings of loss and despair” stemming from the wrongs occurring all over the world, Alice Walker began writing a series of poems. Inspired by those past and present who have stood up to speak out against injustice, TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART: New Poems offers nearly seventy timely works of passionate and powerful poetry– presented in both English and Spanish– that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. The poems reflect Walker’s mission to “Talk [to them] about how that arrow many feel in their hearts is not theirs alone. Remind them it is worthwhile to train to learn how to remove it.” Often honoring actual people and events personally meaningful to Walker, the poems offer her insightful musings about both an out-ofcontrol world and those who stand up for the voiceless and call out social and political hypocrisies. From poems sharing painful self-inquiry, to celebrating the simple beauty of baking frittatas, TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART offers a window into Walker’s magical, at times difficult, and liberating world of activism, love, hope, and above all, gratitude. Walker has served as jurist, 2010 and 2012, for two sessions of The Russell Tribunal on Palestine – Cape Town, South Africa, and New York, NYC. Walker writes a regular blog on her author’s website: www.alicewalkersgardens.com
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36 | Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities | 2019 Program ZORA! Festival 2019
Theme: A Global Celebration
Program Schedule (Subject to change)
Day 1- Saturday, Janary 26 • 6:00 - 7:15 PM Free and open to the public
Companion Exhibitions Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts (The Hurston™) and Art & History Museums – Maitland Exhibition Title: Reflections of the ZORA! Festival 1990 – 2018 Curator: Maye St. Julien Location: The Hurston 227 East Kennedy Boulevard in Eatonville 32751
Art & History Museums – Maitland 231 Packwood Avenue Curator: Scot French, Ph.D., University of Central Floriday
Day 2- Sunday, January 27 • 4:00 - 5:30 PM Free and open to the public
The Virtual Tour of the Historic Robert Hungerford Industrial and Normal School, “Conducted by Zora Neale Hurston as a middle school student” Focus: To provide background on the project’s concept, development, and implementation
Presentations by Collaborative Partners: Orange County Public Schools Valencia College – West Campus University of Central Florida, College of Medicine Orlando Science Center & the National Center for Simulation Location: Orange Technical College Mid Florida Campus 2900 West Oak Ridge Road – Building 1600 – 2nd Floor Orlando 32809
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Day 3 Monday, January 28 • 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Registration Required • Click here to Purchase Tickets
Zora’s Cosmos Mobile Tour
Special Garden-to-Table Lunch at DaJen Eats Cafe & Creamery in Eatonville
Presenter: Chef Jen
Focus: Tour includes stops at The Hurston Museum, the Gardens of the Yards & Gardens Club of Historic Eatonville, the Art & History Museums - Maitland; and in Winter Park, a windshield tour of the Hannibal Square Neighborhood
8:00 AM Registration & Check-in: The Hurston 227 East Kennedy Boulevard in Eatonville 32751
9:15 AM Depart for St. Lawrence African Methodist Episcopal Church 549 East Kennedy Boulevard
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Gardens Tour/Demonstration by Chef Jen/Private lunch at DaJen Eats 323 East Kennedy Boulevard, Suite F
12:45 – 1:45 PM Screening of Waking Up White, a film by Jason Gregory Graduate student, University of Central Florida
2:45 PM Depart for windshield tour of Hannibal Square Neighborhood
3:45 PM Wrap-up @ The Hurston
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Day 4 & 5 Tuesday, January 29 – Wednesday January 30
Global Conversations Round Tables
A Partnership between the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.) and Rollins College
Curated by: N.Y. Nathiri, Executive Director with assistance by the ZORA! Festival Academics Committee Members: Anna Lillios, Ph.D., Department of English, University of Central Florida, Orlando Julian C. Chambliss, Ph.D., Professor, Department of English and History, Michigan State University, Lansing Scot French, Ph.D., Department of History, University of Central Florida, Orlando Trent Tomengo Professor of Humanities, Seminole State College of Florida, Sanford Clarissa West-White, Ph.D., Reference Librarian, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach
Global Conversations co-ordinated by: Matthew Nichter, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology; Coordinator, Africa & African-American Studies, with assistance from Bailey Clark, Associate Director, Center for Leadership & Community Engagement; and Emmy Torres, Rollins ‘18
All activities on Tuesday and Wednesday take place on the campus of Rollins College
Conference Background: This conference is a third in a series of conversations. In recognition of the 130th anniversary of the Incorporation of Historic Eatonville (August 15, 1887), known popularly as “the oldest incorporated African American municipality in the United States,” ZORA! Festival 2017 organized the “Communities Conference: Civic Conversations Concerning 21st Century American Life in Communities of Color” to explore issues and concerns which occur, over and over, in communities of color and to determine ways of improving the quality of life for those persons who reside in them. The response was so positive that the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, after consulting with a number of constituencies, determined to continue the conversations.
Summary: This 2-day conference will explore the question of liberal arts, in a global context, or precisely, how education in a liberal arts ethos, can address present challenges facing democracy. Foci will also include information and technology transfer, economic empowerment and collaboration on a global stage.
Conference Structure: This conference will convene 4 round tables, each in a 75-minute plenary session followed by a 1-hour breakout session with more in-depth conversations.
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Day 4 & 5 Tuesday, January 29 — Wednesday January 30 Registration Required • Click here to Purchase Tickets
Tuesday, January 29 Global Conversations
8:00 – 8:45 AM Breakfast refreshments
9:00 – 10:15 AM Round Table #1 Education for a Global Era: The Role of Humanities
Overarching Questions: What is the role of humanities (literature, poetry, history, religious studies, philosophy, etc.) in an education for global citizenship? What does the study of the humanities bring to global understanding? To the viability of global civil society? To the vitality of democracy?
Participants Grant Cornwell, PhD. Zienzi Dillon, PhD. José B. Fernández, PhD.
10:30 – 11:30 AM Breakout Session to Invited Participants
Breakout Panelists Nancy Chick, Ph.D., Director, Endeavor Foundation Center for Faculty Development, Rollins College
Patrick O. Odoyo, MPSA, Staff Director, Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub
Scott Hewit, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Teacher Education at Rollins College
11:4 AM – 1:15 PM Luncheon (Plated buffet) Location: Patio behind the Cornell Fine Arts Museum (CFAM)
Conversation with Ambassador Peter Romero (Retired) conducted by Laura Bennett, writer and producer of the Podcast, American Diplomat
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Round Table #2 Technology & Information Transfer
Overarching Concepts: The Information and Technology Transfer Round Table will engage, first, with the ascent of information and technology as predominant forces in modern-day society and, second, with the following questions: Is there a real-world role for the liberal arts and humanities as technology continues to progress? Are there any lessons to be learned from other periods since the Industrial Revolution when society was faced epochal changes?
Participants: Pamela McCauley, Ph.D. Henry (Hank) Okraski Joshua Walker
7:00 – 8:30 PM Reception at Residence of Rollins College President
Wednesday, January 30 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM
Round Table #3 Economic Empowerment on the World Stage
Participants: Mayor Ed Jones - Grambling, LA Tadayuki (Tad) Hara, Ph.D. Nadia Ahmad, Esq.
Underlying concept: In the spirit of Zora Neale Hurston — “Real-world” applications of culture and heritage and her commitment to have knowledge NOT be confined to the “dusty shelves of libraries,” this round table seeks to engage the conversationalists based on their experiences with economic empowerment
Topics participants will explore: Mayor Jones: Economic empowerment initiatives which are taking place in Grambling, LA
Dr. Hara: Research-based findings quantifying the economic impact of cultural heritage tourism within specific community settings
Prof. Ahmad: Research-based findings which reveal commonalities in development issues, whether the setting is the city of Apopka (Florida) or the country of Afghanistan.
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10:30 – 11:30 AM Breakout Session to Invited Participants
Breakout Session Facilitators: Dan Chong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rollins College Caroline Cheong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, UCF Emmanuel Kodzi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of International Business, Rollins College
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Luncheon (Plated buffet) Ambassador Harriet Elam-Thomas (Retired), Guest Speaker Location: Patio behind the Cornell Fine Arts Museum (CFAM)
Round Table #4 Collaboration On The World Stage The World Conference of Mayors, Inc. (WCM), founded and organized in April 1984, is a non-profit, non-political worldwide conference, comprised of mayors, former mayors, and other elected and appointed local public officials.
1:30 - 2:45 PM Participants Her Excellency Arikana Chihombari Quao, M.D., African Union Ambassador to the United States
Jean Pierre Mbassi, Secretary-General, United Cities and Local Governments, Africa (UCLGA)
David Kuan-chou Chien, Director-General, Taipei Economics and Cultural Affairs Office in Miami
Oliver Carabali Banguero, Mayor Canca, Columbia, South America
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Day 6 Thursday, January 31 • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Required • Click here to Purchase Tickets
Students as Change Agents: The Nexus between Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU & Historic Black Towns and Settlements (HBTS
Curated by Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Ph.D., Spelman College; ZORA! Festival National Planner; Vice President for Educational Matters, Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance (HBTSA)
Location: Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church 412 East Kennedy Boulevard in Eatonville 32751
Background: The Spelman College HBCU/HBTSA Summit pilots collaborations between 6 historically Black institutions of higher learning and 6 historically Black communities in close proximity. The “town and gown” partnerships will be the following: the town of Tuskegee, AL with Tuskegee University; the town of Grambling, LA with Grambling State University; the town of Mound Bayou, MS with Mississippi Valley State University; the town of Hobson City, AL and Spelman College; the town of Prairie View and Prairie View A&M University; the community of Independence Heights in Houston, TX and Texas Southern University. The Summit will provide an opportunity for 36 students, 6 from each institution, selected for their scholarship and leadership to spend 4 days in the historic town of Eatonville, FL, the 2nd oldest Black municipality in the United States and home of anthropologist, folklorist, and author Zora Neale Hurston. The gathering will provide focused orientation for the cultural phenomenon of the development of Black towns and settlements and the institutions of higher learning that emerge from them. This educational experience will orient the students toward the context of community engagement and service learning in an effort to recruit a new gen- eration of activists and preservationists for historically cultural spaces.
8:00 AM Greetings and Purpose Mayor Johnny Ford, President of HBTSA Mayor Eddie Cole, Eatonville Ms. Tanya Debose, Independence Heights, HBTSA VP Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Ph.D., Spelman College and HBTSA VP
8:30 AM Andrea Roberts, Ph.D., Texas A&M University Lecture on the Historical Phenomenon of Historic Black Towns and Settlements and the Institutions of Higher Learning that Develop from the Communities
9:15 AM Carmen Kynard, Ph.D., John Jay College, CUNY The Legacy of Student Activism on HBCU Campuses
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Day 6 Thursday, January 31
10:30 AM Sharon Davies, Ph.D., Spelman College Jerry Ward, Dillard University and Tougaloo College (Retired) Aman Nadhiri, Johnson C. University Panel: The Unique Experience of an HBCU Education
11:45 AM Julien C. Chambliss, Ph.D., Michigan State University Black Digital Humanities and Digital Recovery
12:30 – 2:30 PAM Lunch
Introduction of Featured Speaker by Linda Haithcox Taylor Executive Director, National Policy Alliance (NPA) Featured Speaker: Dr. Lezlli Baskerville, Esq. President and CEO National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO)
Introduction of Featured Speaker Ms. Antionett Malevauex Casey Family Foundation Speaker: Dr. William Bell, Major Conference Sponsor and President & CEO, Casey Family Foundation
Introduction of Featured Speaker The Honorable Darlene Young, Board Chair Blacks In Government (BIG) Featured Speaker: Dr. Doris P. Sartor, President Blacks in Government (BIG)
3:00 – 5:00 PM Faculty, Students, and Community Leaders work in small groups to learn the history of the partner community and plan logistics for community engagement projects.
5:00 – 6:00 PM Pizza and Salad Dinner
7:30 – 8:45 PM Northwest Tap Connection Youth dance ensemble from Seattle, Washington Location: Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts – Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater 445 South Magnolia Avenue – Orlando 32801
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Day 7 Friday, February 1 • 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
This Day, know as “Education Day,” is Divided into 3 Concurrent Programs Program 1: ZORA! Festival Hosts CAAR Conferees Registration Required • Click here to Purchase Tickets Program 2: Outdoor Festival of the Arts Program 3: 6th ZORA! STEM Conference of Middle School Students
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Concurrent Program #1 ZORA! Festival Hosts Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Conferees in Historic Eatonville
Schedule for Concurrent Program #1 All events for Concurrent Program #1 take place at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church – 412 East Kennedy Boulevard
8:00 – 9:00 AM “Fish & Grits” Breakfast Introduction of Zora Neale Hurston Arts and Humanities Lecturer by Lois Hurston Gaston, Ph.D., Co-Trustee, Zora Neale Hurston Trust
9:30 – 10:45 AM Lecturer Everett L. Fly, Landscape Architect, FASLA; Architect, NCARB Certified; 2014 National Humanities Medalist
11:00 – 12:15 PM Deborah Plant, Ph.D., “On Barracoon” in Conversation with Deborah Plant, Ph.D. Interviewed by Claire Hynes, Ph.D., Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
12:30 – 1:45 PM Lunch On Your Own Please visit the International Food Court at Zora’s Village
2:00 – 3:30 PM “On Zora Neale Hurston” – The Reunion Panel,” Ruthe Sheffey, Ph.D., Trudier Harris, Ph.D., and Cheryl Wall
2:00 – 3:30 PM Moderator: N.Y. Nathiri, Executive Director, P.E.C.
3:45 – 5:00 PM “On Zora Neale Hurston – An International Perspective” Irina Morozova, Ph.D., Prof. Marumi Nishigauchi and Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Ph.D. Moderator: Anna Lillios, Ph.D., Department of English University of Central Florida
5:30 PM Depart for Welcoming Reception in honor of 30th Annual ZORA! Festival, 13th Biennial CAAR Conference, the Annual Meeting of the World Conference of Mayors, and the Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance (HBTSA) Board Meeting Orlando City Hall, 400 S. Orange Avenue in Orlando 3280
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Day 7 Friday, February 1 • 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Concurrent Program #2 ZORA! — Outdoor Festival of the Arts in Historic Eatonville
Location: In the Community Park, next to the Library & Along E. Kennedy Boulevard
Free & Open to the Public
Outdoor Festival Features
Orange County Library System-Sponsored Event in The Life Center Church Location: 63 East Kennedy Boulevard – Eatonville 32751
10:00 AM and 12:30 PM Kekla Magoon on Shadow of Sherwood: A Robyn Hoodlum Adventure
Fine Arts/Master Crafts Booths
The Hurston Museum
Center Stage Performances byStudents
International Marketplace
Make-And-Take-Tent
Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion
Black Orlando Tech (BOT) Organized activities in the Excellence Without Excuse (E-WE) Community Computer Arts Lab & in the “STEM Park” Location: Immediately to the east of the E-WE Lab
“News You Can Use” Booths
International Food Court
9:00 – 10:00 AM and 10:30 – 11:30 AM Creative Writing Workshop for Middle & High School Students, organized by the Kitchen Table Literary Arts Centers Location: Council Chambers in Eatonville Town Hall – 307 East Kennedy Boulevard
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Day 7 Friday, February 1
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM Concurrent Program #3 Workshop Schedule ZORA! for STEM Conference for Middle School Students
Adventures in Medicine UCF College of Medicine An educational activity will expose middle and high school students to medical science and the physician-training process. The students will learn about the educational path and content in the four years of medical school and apply that knowledge in hands-on activities.
Space Exploration and Programing/Coding Orlando Science Center Students will immerse themselves in the exciting world of science technology! Take a tour through our solar system and beyond in our Mobile Planetarium, put your coding abilities to the test by completing a series of Ozobot challenges, and program a Makey Makey to turn your friends into a remote control!
Music in STEM Valencia College Music is everywhere but so is science. There is a great deal of physics embedded in music and we will discuss and demonstrate some of it.
Basic CPR Orange Technical College The students will learn Basic First Aid techniques including bandaging, choking procedures, and nosebleed care. In addition to learning Hands Only CPR with the mannequins during the training sessions.
Medical Simulation SIMETRI, Inc. A state-of-the-art special effects techniques and engineering with innovative medical training technologies, to create highly realistic human forms used for immersive medical training experiences. These simulations provide first responders and military medical personnel the opportunity to train in a safe and learner-friendly environment, developing the skills so critical to survival in the field.
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8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Concurrent Program #3 6th Annual ZORA!™ STEM Conference for Middle School Students
Presented by the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community in Collaboration with
Orange County Public Schools, Valencia College – West Campus
University of Central Florida, College of Medicine
Orlando Science Center & the National Center for Simulation
Hosted by Orange Technical College – Mid Florida Campus
Mid Florida Campus – Building 1600
Summary: Target audience: Students attending Title I middle schools as it is this student population which is historically under-represented in the STEM Fields
Location: Orange Technical College, Mid Florida Campus 2900 W. Oak Ridge Road – Buidling 1600 Orlando, FL 32801
Schedule:
8:00 – 8:15 AM Welcome
8:20 – 11:20 AM Morning Workshops
11:30 – 12:20 AM Lunch and Activities
12:30 – 2:20 AM Afternoon Workshops
2:30 – 2:45 AM Survey
2:45 – 3:00 PM Wrap-Up and Departure
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Outdoor Festival of the Arts in Historic Eatonville Location: In the community park, next to the library and along east Kennedy Boulevard
Children & Youth, K - 12, Free Middle & High school students – Current, school i.d. required
Purchase General Admission, Adult (Until February 1) $10.00 / $15 at the gate
Purchase V.I.P. Admission: Includes up-front seating at the Center Stage, food, 2 adult beverages Until February 1, $65 / $75 at the gate
Outdoor Festival Features
Fine Arts/Master Crafts Booths
International Marketplace
Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion
Black Orlando Tech (BOT) Organized activities in the Excellence Without Excuse (E-WE) Community Computer Arts Lab & in the “STEM Park” Location: Immediately to the east of the E-WE Lab
Centerstage Headlinee Glenn Jones
Make-And-Take-Tent
7:30 – 9:30 PM Closing Banquet — CAAR & ZORA! Festival 2019 Ticketed Event Featuring Alice Walker (Purchase Tickets) University of Central Florida, Pegasus Ballroom Location: 4000 Central Florida Parkway – Orlando 32816
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Day 9 Sunday February 3 • 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
8:30 – 9:45 AM Traditional Sunday Morning Worship Service (Ecumenical)
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ZORA! – Outdoor Festival of the Arts in Historic Eatonville Location: In the Community Park, next to the Library & Along E. Kennedy Boulevard
Children & Youth, K - 12, Free Middle & High school students – Current, school i.d. required
General admission, Adult (Until February 1) $10.00 / $15 at the gate
V.I.P. Admission: Includes up-front seating at the Center Stage, food, 2 adult beverages Until February 1, $65 / $75 at the gate
Outdoor Festival Features
Fine Arts/Master Crafts Booths The Hurston Museum International Marketplace Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion “News You Can Use” Booths International Food Court
Sunday Highlights
1:00 – 2:30 PM Alice Walker Book Signing Location: The ZORA! Store
1:30 – 2:30 PM Gospel Explosion Location: Center Stage in the Park
3:00 – 4:00 PM In Conversation with Alice Walker Location: Eatonville Town Hall
3:30 PM Headliner with Miles Jaye Location: Center Stage
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ZORA! Festival 2019 is funded in part by Orange County Government through the Arts & Cultural Affairs Program
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Marketing Support
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Josephine Fulcher Anderson Val Demings for Congress Jose B. Fernandez Winnie Hurston Winfred Chad McKendrick Jacinta Mathis, Esq. Harietta Finley White Bickley Wilson Zora Neale Hurston Trust
Festival Patrons
Deidre H. Crumbley Marie-Jose Francois, M.D. Samuel B. Ings Thomas S. Kornegay Rod Love Reginald B. McGill Alzo J. Reddick Joshua Smith-Benson, PharmD.
Collaborative Partners
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ELECTED OFFICIALS Edward “Eddie” Cole, Mayor Rodney Daniels, Vice Mayor Marilyn Davis-Sconions, Councilwoman Taurus Mack, Councilman Theodore Washington, Council
Administrative Staff & Town Employees Cathlene Williams, Town Clerk Veronica Smith, Executive Assistant
Katrina Gibson – Finance Director STAFF Herta Wright Elaine Chua Karin Dunn – Public Works Director
STAFF Damaris Adams, Administrative Assistant Juashebia Smith – Utility Billing Clerk Sydney Silas Dominique Taylor Jesse Pugh Mark Haynes
Joseph Jenkins – Deputy Chief of Police STAFF Frances Wellenbusher – Administrative Assistant to Chief of Police Marcedus Collins – Records & Evidence Clerk Felicita Hernandez – LieutenantSheldon Brown
DETECTIVE Roy Smith Community & Youth Services Coordinator
STAFF Perisha Johnson Adrianna Johnson CORPORALS OFFICERS Emmitt Tompkins Fletcher Boone Sheldon Brown Jesenia Diggs James Benderson Omar Delgado CRA Director/Planner Robert Jones Lamar Payne STAFF Broderick Lampkin Jasyme Reese – Neighborhood Coordinator John Simone Natalie Washington – Code Enforcement Officer Michelle Rozefort
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