The Southern Literary Festival
The Southern Literary Festival is an event held yearly to encourage undergraduate writing and is open to the community, featuring established screenwriter Chris Dowling April 5. The writer will speak […]
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Blue Mountain College 201 W Main Street, Blue Mountain, MS
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“We Make,” A film about Siggers High School
Shannon Elementary School 695 Romie Hill Ave, Shannon, MS, United StatesAnnouncing the premiere of "We Make," a film (with Ethan Payne) about Siggers High School, an all-Black school that served communities in Shannon, MS from roughly 1940-1970. It was originally […]
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Writer in Residence
Mississippi State University Campus Starkville, MSChigozie Obioma, a Nigerian writer and the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia whose first two novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, will spend a […]
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Speakers Bureau: “Wanted–1,000,000 Frogs: Weird and Wonderful Things Found in Mississippi Newspapers”
Embassy Suites by Hilton Jackson North Ridgeland 200 Township Ave, Ridgeland, MS, United StatesLecture by speaker Tracy Carr: A monkey named Jocko who lived at the Great Southern Hotel in Gulfport, the biggest cabbage in Coahoma County, and lots and lots of crime: […]
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Speakers Bureau: “No One Writes Songs about Polyester: Re-making Cotton’s Image in the Late Twentieth Century”
Delta State University 1003 W Sunflower Rd, Cleveland, MS, United StatesJames Giesen presents "No One Writes Songs about Polyester: Re-making Cotton’s Image in the Late Twentieth Century." Mississippi has long reigned as the capital of cotton country, but by the […]
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Writer in Residence Public Reading
Mississippi State University Campus Starkville, MSThursday, April 10 7:30-8:30 Reading/Q&A in Old Main 1030 8:30 – 9pm Book Signing Chigozie Obioma, a Nigerian writer and the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of […]
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Rust College French Film Festival
Rust College 150 Rust Ave, Holly Springs, MS, United StatesThe Rust College, Division of Humanities, French Film Festival for 'The Young Who Want to go to France' is a public program film festival combined with a real-aloud workshop of […]
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Sunday Screening: Eudora
Capri Theatre 3023 N State St,, Jackson, United StatesJoin us for a special edition of Sunday Screening of "Eudora" during the Stranger the Fiction Film Festival hosted by the Mississippi Film Society. Please note the showing is at […]
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HTA Lecture: For You, Music Can Only Be an Ornament: The Life and Music of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Jones College 900 S Court St, Ellisville, MS, United StatesKnown as the sister of famous composer Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel composed over 450 works despite being discouraged by family members and 19th-century society. Hear stories of her life […]
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Speakers Bureau: “Spanish Dons in Colonial Mississippi: The Spanish roots of Mississippi’s Cotton Kingdom”
Columbus-Lowndes Public Library 314 7th St N, Columbus, MS, United StatesChristian Pinnen presents: "Spanish Dons in Colonial Mississippi: The Spanish roots of Mississippi’s Cotton Kingdom" Spain has a short, but important part in Mississippi’s history. Between 1779 and 1798, Spanish […]
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Speaker Series: Dr. Christian Pinnen
Historic Natchez Foundation 108 S. Commerce St., Natchez, MS, United StatesThe 2024-2025 season is an annual program of the Natchez Historical Society, consisting of 8 regular monthly presentations by expert speakers on humanities topics pertinent to the history of the […]
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Reading the Room
Exploradora Coffee 463 Ryland Wy, Oxford, MS, United StatesAttention book lovers Please join us April 23rd at 6:00 PM at Exploradora Coffee for our next Reading the Room event. If you're passionate about books and all things literary, this […]
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