featuring Shardé Thomas, Scott Barretta, and LMR Live host Nancy Maria Balach Join Living Music Resource for a lively discussion and interactive experience with artists featured in the upcoming September 14 “Voices of Mississippi” concert — demonstrating the range of talent and people who make up our state, including Scott Barretta and Shardé Thomas. Visit …
Heritage and Hate: Old South Words and Symbols at Southern Universities Stephen Monroe and LaToya Faulk In this SouthTalk, Stephen Monroe and LaToya Faulk will discuss Monroe’s new book, “Heritage and Hate: Old South Words and Symbols at Southern Universities,” which traces the ongoing rhetorical power of Old South words and symbols at southern universities. …
Okla Humma: I Maya Moma Hoki (The Honorable People: We Have Remained in This Place) by Tammy Greer As a member of the United Houma Nation and director of the Center for American Indian Research and Studies (CAIRS) at the University of Southern Mississippi, Tammy Greer has worked with Southeastern Native tribal members on numerous projects, …
Voices of Mississippi is a new multimedia event celebrating the music, art, and storytelling traditions of the people of Mississippi. Based on the 2019 multi-Grammy Award–winning box set “Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians” documented by William Ferris, director emeritus of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, the program features live musical performances …
Mississippi Creates: Annemarie Anderson, Kelly Spivey, and Schaefer Llana The Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Yoknapatawpha Arts Council partner for the premiere of Mississippi Creates, an event that pairs musical performance with short documentary films, providing a glimpse into the creative life and environments of two local musicians: Tyler Keith and Schaefer Llana. …
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country: The Benton County Civil Rights Movement with Roy DeBerry Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi—an area with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project, the …
There will be four Summer Sunset Series concerts in June, with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture sponsoring the Sunday, June 13 event at 6 p.m. with James “Super Chikan” Johnson, a blues musician based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Other concerts are: June 6 – The Soul Tones sponsored by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council June 13 – James “Super …
Join M.F.A. candidate Andrea Morales in discussion with Ralph Eubanks as she discusses her thesis project “Roll Down Like Water.” Andrea Morales is a documentary photographer and journalist born in Lima, Peru and raised in Miami, Florida. Her personal work attempts to lens the issues of displacement, disruption, and everyday magic. Adding glimpses of daily …
Everett Fly’s presentation, “Building Activism: Landscape Architecture and Stewardship of African American Communities,” includes examples of African American historic preservation sites and communities that utilized interdisciplinary research, implementation, and methodology. Everett L. Fly is a San Antonio, Texas, native and has worked as a landscape architect and architect for forty years. Fly is a fellow …
The Spring Documentary Showcase is a celebration of the work by our documentary students. Each artist will present their work followed by a Q&A session with questions from the audience.