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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Caloosahatchee Kayak Tours
LaBelle Fossil Camp 1248 Cornelia Drive, LaBelle, FL, United StatesLaBelle Fossil Camp leads morning and sunset kayak tours. These tours offer a unique, adventure-based, eco-program that offers fun and education for all ages and experience levels. Fossil hunting adventures take place along the Caloosahatchee River, where you're guaranteed to find fossils with us. It's a once in a lifetime, time-traveling trip through Florida's ancient past. Learn about the history of the River, search for bivalves and gastropods from 6
“Monumental History” book club on Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
The Department of History at Florida Atlantic University, in partnership with the Boca Raton Public Library, is hosting a community book club focused on historicizing Confederate Monuments. Even in the twenty-first century, Confederate memorials have the power to stir the passions of both opponents who believe they symbolize a racist past, and defenders who believe they represent southern heritage. It is more important than ever to accurately understand the history
When You Move, I Move–Community Engagement on Climate Gentrification
Naomi's Garden Restaurant 650 NW 71st St., Miami, FL, United StatesFeeling pressure to move? Wondering where your people are? Does it feel like everything around you is changing too fast? You are a person affected by (climate) gentrification. Florida Atlantic University invites you to a free creative writing workshop. Find and use your voice through writing and community conversation. Registration is required. This program is funded in part through a Florida Humanities Community Project Grant in partnership with Florida Atlantic
Powerful Doctoring Women
Avon Park Community Center 310 W Main Street, Avon Park, FL, United StatesDr. Bireda will explore and examine critical issues past and present that impact our global society. Listen, learn, taste, and touch as Granny/Midwife Pearl shares the plants and herbs she uses to keep enslaved Africans healthy on the Bellamy Plantation. Learn about herbs used for preventative, curative, as well as resistance purposes by women who refused to breed children for the slave economy. This program is a partnership between the
Community Civics & Democracy Lecture Series – Lecture #6 – The Power of Protest
Valencia College Osceola Campus 1800 Denn John Ln, Kissemme, FLNova Southeastern's NSU Lifelong Learning Institute Civics & Democracy Series is free and open to the community. Lecture six of this eight-part series will explore "The Power of Protest." Using the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s as its model, this lecture will focus on the power of protest to bring about change — and its limits in doing the same — with a special emphasis on voting
When the Stars Begin to Fall
Dr. Theodore R. Johnson sees both a Promise “big enough for all of us” and an existential threat if we cannot somehow find each other to live into it. And at a time when it’s easy to be overwhelmed and confused, he lights a path forward that we might travel together—with wisdom and clarity that draws us in. Join us as Dr. Johnson makes an invitation—and a challenge—to all of
Exhibition: The Legacy Couples Project: 400+ Years of LGBTQ Love
Art Deco Museum at the Miami Design Preservation League 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, United StatesMiami Beach Pride and HistoryMiami Museum with Miami Design Preservation League | Art Deco Museum have partnered to present 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
EXHIBITION: Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood
Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center 102 M L King Ave, Saint Augustine, FLThe Crisp-Ellert Art Museum: Flagler College, Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center (LMCC), St. Augustine Historical Society (SAHS) are presenting a multi-institutional exhibition and panel series entitled "Magic, Mirth, And Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood." The exhibition is centered on the lived experiences of writer and curator Shawana Brooks during her pregnancy and the premature birth of her son Roosevelt. Her "musings'' are shown alongside artwork by Cheryl McCain, Marsha Hatcher,
EXHIBITION: Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood
Saint Augustine Historical Society 271 Charlotte St, Saint Augustine, FLThe Crisp-Ellert Art Museum: Flagler College, Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center (LMCC), St. Augustine Historical Society (SAHS) are presenting a multi-institutional exhibition and panel series entitled "Magic, Mirth, And Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood." The exhibition is centered on the lived experiences of writer and curator Shawana Brooks during her pregnancy and the premature birth of her son Roosevelt. Her "musings'' are shown alongside artwork by Cheryl McCain, Marsha Hatcher,
The History of the Caloosahatchee River
Barron Park House Gallery 471 N Lee Street, LaBelle, FL, United StatesAmy Bennett Williams, writer for the Ft. Myers News-Press and author of Along the Caloosahatchee River, will take listeners on a historical trip down the Caloosahatchee River with images she's collected of the river. She will talk about the ways in which the river has changed over time, the role it played in human history in the region, and what we can expect, environmentally, moving forward. This program accompanies Water/Ways
Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition
Union County Public Library 250 SE 5th Ave, Lake butler, FL, United StatesExplore and celebrate the history and culture of the nation's oldest cattle ranching state. See and hear all aspects of Florida cattle ranching traditions, including Cracker cow-whips and unique ranch gate designs, swamp cabbage and other foodways, cowboy church and Cracker cowboy funerals, Seminole ranching past and present, occupational skills such as roping and branding, the vibrant rodeo culture, side-splitting cowboy poetry, feisty cow-dogs, and much more. This program is
MOCA Moving Images: ECCE HOMO
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, FL, United StatesThe Museum of Contemporary Art is partnering with the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab at Florida International University to present a film and panel discussion in coordination with the exhibition "My Name is Maryan." This final program in the series presents "Ecce Homo, Maryan S. Maryan with Kenny Schneider", 1975 (1 hour 32 minutes). Included in the exhibition, Ecce Homo is one of the last works of the Polish-Jewish artist Maryan.
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, FL, United StatesThe 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
Storytelling with Maps to Understand Community Challenges
OnlineThe Indian River State College is presenting a talk that will explore how communities can harness mapping tools (e.g., Google Maps, StoryMaps) to better center the individual stories of people facing community challenges. Many of today's challenges are place-based, such as economic struggles and environmental issues. Interactive spatial tools give digital humanities researchers and creators rich possibilities for archiving, connecting, and contextualizing individuals' stories that are linked to local concerns.
Confessions of a Public Mural Artist
Sharon Koskoff is a pioneer of public art and has painted over 350 murals in Palm Beach County public schools and other public spaces. Discover creativity found in Twentieth-Century WPA style murals through the present. Explore how recent graffiti-styled "street art" murals are adorning our neighborhoods in Florida and bringing us into the future. This program is a partnership between Florida Humanities and the Dunedin Public Library. Funding for this
Fixed Stars Book Launch
Join Burrow Press for the launch of Marisa Siegel's poetry collection, Fixed Stars. In this collection, Siegel investigates the in-between: windows, porches, drawers, bedrooms, and basements are portals to examine how language shapes and is shaped, and to what ends. Siegel's poems take readers on a lush voyage through trauma and toward the reestablishment of hope. Celebrate the release of Fixed Stars with readings by an all-star lineup of poets
Spain’s Pain in 16th Century Florida: French, Afflictions, and the Ais
Sacred Kashi 11155 Roseland Rd, Sebastian, FLSacred Kashi is hosting Dr. Barbara Purdy as part of their Visibilty + Voices lecture series. Dr. Purdy will share archaeological evidence about the indigenous communities who lived in the area prior to historic contact (nearly 13,000 years ago) as well as the interactions of the Ais with the French and Spanish during the historic period beginning in the 1500s AD. Dr. Purdy's research on the Paeloindian period was the
Florida and Water: A Historical Perspective
Barron Park House Gallery 471 N Lee Street, LaBelle, FL, United StatesSteve Noll, master lecturer, discusses Florida's long and difficult relationship with water, its attempts to turn land into water and water into land, and the contentious issues involving the Everglades, the Ocklawaha River, political battles with Alabama and Georgia, and the potential impact of sea-level rise. This program accompanies Water/Ways Smithsonian exhibit on display at the Barron Library in LaBelle. Water/Ways is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration
The Privilege of Remaining
Reflections of Manatee 1302 4th Avenue East, Bradenton, FLJoin Reflections of Manatee for a critical discussion about the Seminole people and the confrontations fought in Florida that impacted their way of life. Within the Seminole War (1817-28, 1835-42, 1855-58) were two long periods of cease-fire; long enough that Americans saw it as three wars. For the Seminole people in Florida, however, the War was an ever-present threat shaping the way they lived and the way they interacted with
Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood Artist Panel Discussion with Dr. Martha Bireda, Shawana Brooks, and Dr. Lori Lee
Flagler College, Ringhaver Student Center, Virginia Room 50 Sevilla Street, Saint Augustine, FLThe Crisp-Ellert Art Museum: Flagler College is hosting a panel discussion featuring writer and curator Shawana Brooks, scholar Dr. Martha Bireda (Blanchard House of African History and Culture), and Dr. Lori Lee (Flagler College). In conjunction with the exhibition "Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood," Dr. Bireda will present on slave breeding and the resistance of enslaved women. This will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Lee