Yes, You Can Come Home Again
Join us for the Appalachian Center "Appalachian Forum" series featuring Emily Hudson, community activist and one of the founders of the Southeast Kentucky African-American Museum and Cultural Center. Join us for her talk entitled "Yes, You Can Come Home Again" as she shares excerpts from her book, Soul Miner, and discusses her journey in search of her identity as an Appalachian and an African American. She will share about the genesis of SEKYAAMCC and how it is on a mission to provide a platform for "history to speak."
5:00 pm Monday, November 1st, 2021
Event location William T. Young LIbrary UKAA Auditorium & Virtual via Zoom.
To join via Zoom- register for the webinar here: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yfwRd000RlmGgvY50fAmAw
This presentation is co-sponsored by the UK Appalachian Center & Appalachian Studies Program, African-American & Africana Studies , and the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies.
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EGSO Welcome Back Meet and Greet
Tuesday, Aug 31 @ Ethereal Brewing, 5:30-7:30 - EGSO Welcome Back Meet and Greet
EGSO invites ALL graduate students to swing by Ethereal (1224 Manchester St, Lexington, KY 40504) next Tuesday, August 31 from 5:30-7:30. Stop by to see old friends, meet new ones, and cool down with a refreshment from a local staple! Looking forward to seeing you there! - Jess
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Jessica Van Gilder
University of Kentucky | English Phd Candidate
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Some of the Bluegrass is Black: Martha Redbone
Register now for August Interview with Martha Redbone
Harlan, Kentucky’s own Martha Redbone will join Dr. Shauna M. Morgan for the August installment of “Celebrating the Art & Culture of Kentucky: Some of the Bluegrass is Black,” an online interview series produced by the Kentucky Arts Council. Register now to join the arts council at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25, for this exciting conversation.
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Redbone is a Native and African-American vocalist, songwriter, composer and educator. She is known for her unique gumbo of folk, blues and gospel from her childhood in Harlan County, Kentucky, infused with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn. Inheriting the powerful vocal range of her gospel-singing African American father and the resilient spirit of her mother’s Cherokee/Shawnee/Choctaw culture, Redbone broadens the boundaries of American Roots music. With songs and storytelling that share her life experience as a Native and Black woman and mother in the new millennium, Redbone gives voice to issues of social justice, bridging traditions from past to present, connecting cultures, and celebrating the human spirit. Read more about Redbone’s work on the art’s council’s website. |
The event is free and will be hosted on Zoom and stream live on the arts council’s Facebook page. Registration is required.
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“Celebrating the Art & Culture of Kentucky: Some of the Bluegrass is Black” is part artist talk, part personal interview, and combines personal perspectives of the artist’s work, and meaningful conversations with both professional and emerging Black artists in and from the Commonwealth. The series is hosted by Dr. Morgan and features a monthly interview with a Kentucky artist. Previous interviews in the series are archived on the arts council’s You Tube channel. |
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Visit the Kentucky Arts Council’s website for more information about the series and bios of the host and artists.
For more information, contact Emily B. Moses, arts council executive staff advisor, at emilyb.moses@ky.gov.
This series is supported through a grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.
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Visiting Writers Series: An Evening with Nicole Chung
NOVEMBER 18 | An Evening with Nicole Chung | 7 PM
Join us for our virtual evening with memoirist Nicole Chung!
About Nicole Chung:
Nicole Chung is the author of the national bestseller All You Can Ever Know. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and nearly two dozen other outlets, All You Can Ever Know was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a semifinalist for the PEN Open Book Award, an Indies Choice Honor Book, and an official Junior Library Guild Selection. Chung's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, TIME, The Guardian, and Vulture, among others, and she also wrties a weekly advice column for Slate. To learn more about Nicole Chung, visit nicolechung.net!
Stay tuned for the webinar link!
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Visiting Writers Series: An Evening with Carter Sickels
OCTOBER 21 | An Evening with Carter Sickels | 7 PM
Join us for our virtual evening with novelist Carter Sickels! The Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program is co-sponsoring the MFA in Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series with the Gaines Center for the Humanities.
About Carter Sickels:
Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star (Hub City Press), winner of the 2021 Southern Book Prize and the Weatherford Award. The Prettiest Star was also selected as a Kirkus Best Book of 2020 and a Best LGBT Book of 2020 by O Magazine. His debut novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury), a 2013 Oregon Book Award finalist and Lambda Literary Award finalist, was adapted into a feature film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. His writing appears in various publications, including The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed, Guernica, Joyland, and Catapult. Carter is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award, and has received fellowships from the Bread Load Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is an assistant professor at Eastern Kentucky University. For more information on Carter Sickels, visit www.cartersickels.com!
To register, click HERE!
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Visiting Writers Series: Writing Workshop with Keith Wilson
SEPTEMBER 30 | Writing Workshop with Keith Wilson | 7 PM
Join us for a visual poetry writing workshop lead by award-winning Affrilachian poet, Keith Wilson! This event will be virtual with an RSVP capacity of 30 workshop participants.
Register HERE!
About Keith Wilson:
Affrilachian poet Keith S. Wilson is the author of Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). His poetry and prose have appeared in Elle, Poetry magazine, the Kenyon Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among others. To learn more about Keith Wilson, check out his Poetry Foundation feature HERE.
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An Evening with Crystal Wilkinson
Thursday, August 26 @ 7:00 p.m. ET
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Like Father, Like Son (2013) Screening
International Village sponsors a screening of Like Father, Like Son (2013, Hirokazu Koreeda) in Worsham Theater, 8:00. Free.
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Worsham Theater