Events Calendar

In local communities across Florida, humanities-rich programming is making a lasting impact in the hearts and minds of Sunshine State residents and visitors alike. Florida Humanities is proud to partner with local community champions to bring you high-quality public programming through Community Project Grants, Florida Talks, Museum on Main Street, and more.

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EXHIBITION: Have Blues, Will Travel: Traveling Blues Musicians in the Jim Crow Era

Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center 1101 E. River Cove St., Tampa

The Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center is hosting a traveling exhibit from the National Blues Museum. Entitled "Have Blues, Will Travel: Traveling Blues Musicians in the Jim Crow Era," this exhibition showcases the hardships and inequality Black Blues musicians faced while traveling to play concerts in the Jim Crow era. For Black blues musicians, touring was among the only ways to make money from their music. However, traveling as

EXHIBITION: The Legacy Couples Project: 400+ Years of LGBTQ Love

HistoryMiami Museum 101 West Flagler Street, Miami

Miami Beach Pride and HistoryMiami Museum have partnered to present a second opportunity to see the exhibition The Legacy Couples Project: 400+ Years of LGBTQ Love. Featuring on-camera interviews, personal memorabilia, and audio-recorded stories told to four queer youth from the YES Institute, the exhibition brings to light a community's story of struggle, perseverance, love, and hope told through the stories of 14 same-sex couples. The stories of these couples,

Toni Morrison: Sustaining Community: Shared Reading

Girffin Heights Children and Family Resource Center 1704 Joe Louis St., Tallahassee

For their third event of the "Toni Morrison: Sustaining Community" program, the Department of English of the Florida State University is collaborating with Chris Omni of Mother Earth Academy for a shared reading of Toni Morrison's Please, Louise, a children's book Morrison co-wrote with her son, Slade. This parent-and-child oriented event builds on the themes present in Morrison's writing. The emphasis in Please, Louise, on the wonders of seeing your

Water/Ways Grand Opening

Amelia Island Community Theatre 207 Cedar Street, Fernandina Beach
Hybrid Hybrid Event

Join Amelia Island Museum of History as they welcome Water/Ways with two exciting programs. At 1pm, the museum is presenting a panel discussion with representatives from local environmental groups, including the Amelia Tree Conservancy and Amelia Island Sea Turtle Watch. Then at 2pm, the Museum is conducting a live oral history with the Foar from Home team about their experiences rowing across the Atlantic. Both of these programs will be

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