True South: No Single Story The 17th Annual Wesleyan Storytelling Festival takes place on the campus of Wesleyan College in Macon on Saturday, April 21. Featured performers include storyteller and humorist Andy Offutt Irwin and singer/songwriter Caroline Herring. The event is free and open to the public. This is a community event.
Avondale Towne Cinema Short Docs Festival: Water Stories At Water Stories, seven short documentary films will be shown, including films about water monitoring of the Chattahoochee; memories of the Creek people who once lived in the region; a Gulf of Mexico sailboat adventure; springs in Florida; and the frog-harming pesticide Atrazine. A talk-back will take […]
Join us at the AJC Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the country, for the Humanities track, sponsored by Georgia Humanities, and more. On Friday evening, Broadway actor/director and Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon will deliver the keynote, kicking off this year's festival. On Saturday and Sunday, authors will discuss their books at […]
Avondale Towne Cinema Short Docs Screening Eight indie documentaries and trailers will be shown, along with a filmmakers' q&a. Short films include Graven Image, about the racist history of Stone Mountain, More Than Good Coffee, about the Refuge Coffee Company in Clarkston, and Sriracha, about the hot sauce with a cult following. This is a […]
Sunday in the Park: Bringing History to Life Back before cities built public parks, average people would bring a picnic basket and some musical instruments (and maybe a few adult libations) to the local cemetery and revere the dead by celebrating life in what was often one of the only patches of public space in town. Oakland […]
WWI Otranto Centennial Memorial The city of Nashville, in Berrien County, will pay tribute to the families of the young men who lost their lives in the sinking of the troop ship HMS Otranto, in the stormy seas off the coast of Islay, Scotland. The memorial will begin with a parade up Davis Street, followed […]
The Legacy of General James Longstreet The Longstreet Society presents a festive celebration of General James Longstreet at the Historic Piedmont Hotel Museum. Activities will include guided tours, musicians in costume, storytelling from civil war veterans, and a program about Longstreet created for teens and young adults. Refreshments will be provided. The event is free and open […]
27th Edition of the Book Festival of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta For 26 years, the Book Festival of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA) has offered a two-week literary extravaganza featuring an exciting lineup of the year's most exceptional authors. Each year, thousands of book lovers come together to listen, […]
2019 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival As the largest film festival in Atlanta and the largest Jewish Film Festival in the world, the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival presents outstanding international and independent cinema that fosters inter-group understanding among Atlanta’s diverse cultural, ethnic, and religious populations. Please visit www.ajff.com for more information on ticket purchases and a […]
3rd Annual Ogeechee International History Film Festival The Ogeechee International History Film Festival is the only open submission, juried, international cinema program of its kind. Opening night, February 21, will be held in the Nesmith-Lane Theater on the Georgia Southern campus. The remaining festival events will take place in the Russell Union Theater on campus. […]
