The Save Your Spaces Festival celebrates Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), LGBTQAI+, womxn, immigrant, and working-class community members working in historic preservation. The festival will feature workshops, discussions, performances, and more designed to inspire and activate engagement in local cultural heritage. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
Presented by Georgia State University – Perimeter College in partnership with Georgia Center for the Book, "Revival: Lost Southern Voices" is an annual festival that celebrates historically excluded, erased, or marginalized Southern voices. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
Join the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library for a celebration honoring the legacy of civil rights activists Joseph and Evelyn Lowery. The event will feature reflections from Atlanta civil rights activists, an interactive exhibition, workshops on preserving historical documents, and a chance to explore the Library's archival holdings and digital lab. This program is supported […]
Festival Saturday is a daylong celebration of writing and reading, including author keynote presentations, panel discussions, and more. This year's festival features more than 30 local and national authors.
Revival: Lost Southern Voices is a festival for readers that celebrates historically excluded, erased, or marginalized Southern voices. During this three-day annual conference, presenters discuss Southern authors or artists whose works are out-of-print or otherwise do not receive the attention they deserve. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
The second annual Carrollton BookFest will feature two days of readings, workshops, and performances by local and national authors. This program was supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
The Department of English and Modern Languages at Clark Atlanta University will hold its 51st annual Writer’s Workshop Conference on April 16 – 18, 2024, in Davage Auditorium. The conference’s theme is “Black Boy Joy: Black Men Telling Their Stories and Truths” and will bring together critically acclaimed authors for readings and much-needed conversation. This […]
Join the William Root House in Marietta for its annual Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, June 15. The event will include guided museum tours, living history demonstrations, storytelling, crafts, and more. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
The Decatur Book Festival returns to Decatur Square October 4-5, 2024. The event will feature author talks, readings, panel discussions, children's sessions, a vendor fair, and a keynote presentation by Joyce Carol Oates. All sessions are free to the public. This event is sponsored by Georgia Humanities.
Heritage Works will facilitate a two-day event that utilizes the StoryCorps mobile app and will provide members of the Darien community the opportunity to share their memories with trained interviewers. Renderings will be archived and stored in the Library of Congress, with access granted to community members. A community World Cafe will follow, highlighting issues […]
