Events

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

  • Amaru’s Awakening Heritage Reconnection Journey

    Literary Arts Center 255 Love Ave, Tifton, Georgia

    The Maya Heritage Center hosts lectures by scholars and experts on Maya history, art, language, and traditions. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.  

    Free

  • Monday at the Movies: The Constitution

    Columbus Public Library 3000 Macon Road, Columbus, Georgia

    As part of their "Constitution and Me" program series, join the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries for a screening of the film Iron-Jawed Angels. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities. 

    Free

  • Revolutionary Perspectives Lecture Series: Communities Create History

    Virtual Program

    Join the Coastal Heritage Society for their 2024 Revolutionary Perspectives Lecture Series. This virtual series will feature humanities scholars from diverse areas of focus to provide a broad definition and understanding of how communities create history as well as to examine best practices in sharing history with modern audiences. Scholars include Dr. Deborah Johnson-Simon, a […]

    Free

  • Local History Spotlight: Primus King Changes the Georgia Vote

    Columbus Public Library 3000 Macon Road, Columbus, Georgia

    Primus E. King helped African-Americans gain the right to vote in Georgia by challenging the constitutionality of the State Democratic Party's refusal to allow him to vote in 1940. As part of their "Constitution and Me" program series, join the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries for a lecture exploring important details of the King decision using primary […]

    Free

  • Monday at the Movies: The Constitution

    Columbus Public Library 3000 Macon Road, Columbus, Georgia

    As part of their "Constitution and Me" program series, join the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries for a screening of the film Willie Velasquez: Your Voice is Your Vote. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities. 

    Free

  • Revolutionary Perspectives Lecture Series: Communities Create History

    Virtual Program

    Join the Coastal Heritage Society for their 2024 Revolutionary Perspectives Lecture Series. This virtual series will feature humanities scholars from diverse areas of focus to provide a broad definition and understanding of how communities create history as well as to examine best practices in sharing history with modern audiences. Scholars include Dr. Deborah Johnson-Simon, a […]

    Free

  • Sidney’s Salon Featuring Neesha Powell-Ingabire

    Historic Macon Foundation 950 THIRD ST., Macon, Georgia

    Join the Historic Macon Foundation for a presentation by Neesha Powell-Ingabire (she/they), a coastal Georgia-born-and-raised movement journalist, essayist, and community and cultural organizer. She reports on the justice movements of the Black, trans, queer, and Southern communities to which she belongs and writes essays to recover her own history and the histories of her ancestors […]

    Free

  • Decatur Book Festival

    Decatur, GA GA, United States

    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.

    Free

  • Screening of “Saving the Chattahoochee”

    Tara Theatre 2345 Cheshire Bridge Road NE, Atlanta, GA

    During the 1990s, the Chattahoochee River was named the most endangered urban river in North America by American Rivers, a key conservation group. "Saving the Chattahoochee," a new documentary by filmmaker Hal Jacobs, tells the story of the dedicated Atlanta women who fought to revive and protect the Chattahoochee River and its watershed. The screening […]

    Free

  • American Soldiers during the Holocaust: Perception and Representation in Newspapers and Museums

    Augusta University 1120 15th St., Augusta, GA, United States

    August University professors Stacey Thompson, David Bulla, Hubert Van Tull, and James Garvey will discuss representations of the Holocaust in media and museums and the experiences of local veterans who liberated the concentration camps. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

    Free