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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT—Decatur Short Docs Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Decatur Short Docs Film Festival\, presented by the Georgia Center for the Book \nThe Decatur Short Docs Film Festival is a Decatur/Atlanta-based festival series showcase of short documentaries about people and places primarily in the South. The festival provides a platform for filmmakers to showcase their work\, and provides a forum for fresh perspectives and insights in the community. The 2020 theme is “Art Happens\,” which celebrates the visual\, performing\, and literary arts. \nThe 2020 Short Docs Film Festival will be hosted online in September. Each screening will be accompanied by a “talkback” session with the creators and contributors of the documentaries. \nA 2020 featured documentary\, Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence\, directed by Hal and Henry Jacobs\, will be screened online the first weekend of the festival\, and will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers on September 6 at 7:00p.m. The screenings and talkback are free to participate\, but registration is required. The production of Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence was supported in part by a grant from Georgia Humanities. \nThe online Decatur Short Docs Film Festival\, presented by the Georgia Center for the Book\, is part of the 2020 virtual Decatur Book Festival\, of which Georgia Humanities is proud to be a sponsor. See the full festival line-up at www.decaturbookfestival.com.
URL:https://www.georgiahumanities.org/event/virtual-event-decatur-short-docs-film-festival/
LOCATION:Georgia Center for the Book
CATEGORIES:Festival,Online,Reading/Performance/Showing
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT—The 2020 Lillian Smith Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:The 2020 Lillian Smith Book Awards \nThe Lillian Smith Book Awards are sponsored by the Southern Regional Council\, University of Georgia Libraries\, DeKalb County Public Library/The Georgia Center for the Book\, and Piedmont College. The awards are presented annually at the Decatur Book Festival. \nSelected by a panel of judges\, nominated books represent outstanding creative achievements worthy of recognition because of their literary merit\, moral vision\, and honest representation of the South\, its people\, problems\, and promises. The Lillian Smith Book Awards honors those authors who\, through their writing\, carry on Smith’s legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity and proposing a vision of justice and human understanding that represents the ideals of a racially just society. \nThe 2020 recipients of the Lillian Smith Book Award are Jelani M. Favors\, for Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism\, published by the University of North Carolina Press\, and Brandon K. Winford\, for John Hervey Wheeler\, Black Banking\, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights\, published by the University Press of Kentucky. \nThe virtual award ceremony is free to attend\, but registration is required.
URL:https://www.georgiahumanities.org/event/virtual-event-the-2020-lillian-smith-book-awards/
LOCATION:GA
CATEGORIES:Online
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