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.
Alert: Some events may be canceled or postponed. We work to ensure that our events calendar remains accurate. We strongly urge you to call the event contact for any program you are interested in to confirm that the event is still planned.
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When You Move, I Move–Community Engagement on Climate Gentrification
When You Move, I Move–Community Engagement on Climate Gentrification
Feeling 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
Powerful Doctoring Women
Dr. 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
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Community Civics & Democracy Lecture Series – Lecture #6 – The Power of Protest
Community Civics & Democracy Lecture Series – Lecture #6 – The Power of Protest
Nova 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
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When the Stars Begin to Fall
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
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Exhibition: The Legacy Couples Project: 400+ Years of LGBTQ Love
Exhibition: The Legacy Couples Project: 400+ Years of LGBTQ Love
Miami 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
EXHIBITION: Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood
The 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
EXHIBITION: Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood
The 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,
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The History of the Caloosahatchee River
The History of the Caloosahatchee River
Amy 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
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Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition
Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition
Explore 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
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MOCA Moving Images: ECCE HOMO
MOCA Moving Images: ECCE HOMO
The 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.
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EXHIBITION: Have Blues, Will Travel: Traveling Blues Musicians in the Jim Crow Era
EXHIBITION: Have Blues, Will Travel: Traveling Blues Musicians in the Jim Crow Era
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
Storytelling with Maps to Understand Community Challenges
Storytelling with Maps to Understand Community Challenges
The 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
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
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
Spain’s Pain in 16th Century Florida: French, Afflictions, and the Ais
Sacred 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
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Florida and Water: A Historical Perspective
Florida and Water: A Historical Perspective
Steve 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
The Privilege of Remaining
Join 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
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EXHIBITION: Have Blues, Will Travel: Traveling Blues Musicians in the Jim Crow Era
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Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood Artist Panel Discussion with Dr. Martha Bireda, Shawana Brooks, and Dr. Lori Lee
Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood Artist Panel Discussion with Dr. Martha Bireda, Shawana Brooks, and Dr. Lori Lee
The 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
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The Legacy of Franklin Roosevelt’s WPA in Florida
The Legacy of Franklin Roosevelt’s WPA in Florida
This talk will be in person. Free to the public. Please RSVP. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was one of FDR's most wide-ranging, yet controversial programs. Many saw it as a 'make work' program which did not accomplish its goals - the acronym was derided as 'We Piddle Around.' The evidence indicates that the program was far more successful and, even today, Floridians enjoy the buildings and constructions created by
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Writing Community College Students Into the Digital Landscape
Writing Community College Students Into the Digital Landscape
In this third session hosted by the Indian River State College, Dr. Anne McGrail, Lane Community College, will explore how she has adapted and used digital humanities methods, and the importance of digital humanities work in a community college setting. Beginning with the role that precarity plays in students' lives, she will outline how she teaches digital humanities and is influenced by community college contexts. The frame she uses has
Florida Water Stories
Florida Water Stories
Steve Noll, master lecturer, discusses Florida's long and difficult relationship with water, its attempts to turn land into water and water into land. He shares 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 Amelia Island Museum of History beginning May 7th. Water/Ways is part of Museum
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EXHIBITION: Have Blues, Will Travel: Traveling Blues Musicians in the Jim Crow Era
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Civic Activism, and Environmental Justice in Contemporary South Florida
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Civic Activism, and Environmental Justice in Contemporary South Florida
The Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami is partnering with UM's Office of Civic and Community Engagement to present a panel discussion that will highlight the connections between the history of the environmental movement and the fight for racial justice. 2022 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of Marjory Stoneman Douglas's landmark book, The Everglades: River of Grass (1947). Though Douglas is most noted as an
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When You Move, I Move: Video Screening
When You Move, I Move: Video Screening
As part of the Peace, Justice and Human Rights Initiative , Florida Atlantic University is hosting a video screening of "When You Move, I Move," an arts-informed research project. The video explores Serena Hoermann's spoken word workshop facilitated last month in Miami. During this workshop, writers and community members came together to respond to displacement pressures in ethnic enclaves in Miami, Florida. The project asks, in ethnic enclaves, how do
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SpeakOut: The Intersection of LGBTQ Identity and Law
SpeakOut: The Intersection of LGBTQ Identity and Law
The Gulfport Public Library and LGBTQ Resource Center are kicking off their SpeakOut series with a lecture by C. Dixon Osburn, author and co-founder of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. His book, Mission Possible, recounts the individual, social and financial cost of a policy at the intersection of law and LGBTQ identity. Osburn will explore the history of the 1994 "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy signed into law by President
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Toni Morrison: Sustaining Community
Toni Morrison: Sustaining Community
"Toni Morrison: Sustaining Community" is a three-part program being presented by the Department of English of the Florida State University. Celebrating the life and work of Toni Morrison, they are hosting a double-feature film screening on April 22, 2022 to kick off the program. The first film, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (dir. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2019), presents a comprehensive and contemplative memorial of the author's life and body of
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Southside Placemaking: Innovative Approaches to Preserving Culture and Communities
Southside Placemaking: Innovative Approaches to Preserving Culture and Communities
The Southside Redevelopment Council and Community Lift Institute are hosting an important community conversation honoring history and legacy of land ownership of Black families in Leon County. The panel will discuss actionable steps for enriching vital communities today, explore opportunities for cultural placemaking, and investigate how redevelopment can not only recognize the history of the area but also empower current residents. The presentation will provide both the historic overview and
“Monumental History” Book Club on “The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory”
“Monumental History” Book Club on “The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory”
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 21st 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
Maritime Mingle: Stories from the Gulf Coast Commercial fishing industry in Cortez: Environmental Changes
Maritime Mingle: Stories from the Gulf Coast Commercial fishing industry in Cortez: Environmental Changes
The Friends of the Florida Maritime Museum is hosting an engaging conversation to explore what can be learned from the water ways that surround the Florida coast and those who live and work there. Fishing communities depend upon healthy waterways. The men and women whose livelihoods directly reflect any environmental changes are incredibly connected to the ebbs and flows. What can be learned from their stories? Get ready to "maritime
Writing for the Public Good Book Launch
Writing for the Public Good Book Launch
The Matheson History Museum welcomes back author and UF master lecturer Dr. Steve Noll for the launch of his newest book Writing for the Public Good. For the safety of staff and attendees, capacity will be limited to 75 people and masks are required. Admission is free but registration is required, click here to register. A virtual option via Zoom is available for those who cannot attend in person. Click
Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood Artist Panel
Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood Artist Panel
The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum: Flagler College is hosting a panel discussion featuring writer and curator Shawana Brooks, and visual artists Marsha Hatcher, Cheryl McCain, and Tatiana Phoenix. They will discuss their work included in the exhibition "Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood," on view at the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center and the St. Augustine Historic Society's Tovar House from April 1 - 30, 2022. The exhibition "Magic,
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EXHIBITION: Have Blues, Will Travel: Traveling Blues Musicians in the Jim Crow Era
Respect: Soul Music and the Civil Rights Movement
Respect: Soul Music and the Civil Rights Movement
In conjunction with the traveling exhibition "Have Blues, Will Travel: Traveling Blues Musicians in the Jim Crow Era" , the Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center is hosting a lecture series. The first event in this series will how words, images and stirring music tell the story of the soul music that became the soundtrack of the Civil Rights Movement. Guest speaker John Capouya with explore the stories of Aretha
Florida’s Female Pioneers
Florida’s Female Pioneers
Join the Historical Society of Avon Park for Peggy Macdonald's Florida Female Pioneers. Florida's Female Pioneers explores some of the founding women who have shaped Florida, including Esther Hill Hawks, a physician who ran the first racially integrated school in Florida. Harriet Beecher Stowe kick-started Florida's tourism industry with her 1873 book, Palmetto Leaves. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, the first in her family to be born into freedom, became one
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Community Civics & Democracy Lecture Series – Lecture #7 – Ideological Polarization
Community Civics & Democracy Lecture Series – Lecture #7 – Ideological Polarization
Nova Southeastern's NSU Lifelong Learning Institute Civics & Democracy Series is free and open to the community. Lecture 7 is the final lecture of this 8-parts series and will focus on Ideological Polarization. The lecture will explore two periods of high political and ideological polarization in American history: the Antebellum period prior to the Civil War and the politics of the 21st century. The emphasis will be on what happens
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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of Oceans
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of Oceans
The Friends of Wakulla Springs State Park hosts Cynthia Barnett for "The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans." In her book, The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans, award-winning environmental author Cynthia Barnett explores the long, rich and surprisingly profound relationship between humans and seashells. Traveling from Florida to the Bahamas to the Maldives, West Africa, and beyond, Barnett uncovers
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Florida Talks with Carrie Sue Ayvar: Stories of Florida-Con Sabor! on Facebook Live
Florida Talks with Carrie Sue Ayvar: Stories of Florida-Con Sabor! on Facebook Live
"Stories of Florida - Con Sabor" with storyteller Carrie Sue Ayvar is an online event sponsored by the Broward Public Library Foundation. The program will be moderated by Community Library Manager Freda Mosquera. No registration is required. Our stories have never been the same since Ponce De Leon first arrived on our shores in 1513. Flowing seamlessly between Spanish and English, these personal, historical and traditional Florida tales takes the
Cannibals and Kings: A New Look at Jonathan Dickinson’s 1696 Account of the Jobé and the Ais
Cannibals and Kings: A New Look at Jonathan Dickinson’s 1696 Account of the Jobé and the Ais
Sacred Kashi is hosting Dr. Jerald Milanich at the Environmental Learning Center as part of their Visibility + Voices lecture series. Milanich will share accounts from the diary of 17th-century merchant Jonathan Dickinson, written during his journey along the Florida coast in the 1690s. Shipwrecked on the Florida Atlantic coast near Jupiter Inlet, Dickinson and his fellow travelers found themselves among indigenous communities. Afraid of repercussions from Spanish St. Augustine,
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Timucua Indians and the Missions of Spanish Florida
Timucua Indians and the Missions of Spanish Florida
This presentation is one of a series of eight Ormond Beach Historical Society's 2021-22 Speaker Series programs. Beginning in the 1560s, first Jesuit and then Franciscan friars founded more than 150 missions among native peoples from south Florida to the Chesapeake Bay. The largest number were in Timucua Indian towns in southern Georgia and northern Florida. By the time Spain relinquished La Florida to Great Britain in 1763 only two
Toni Morrison: Sustaining Community: Book Reading & Discussion
Toni Morrison: Sustaining Community: Book Reading & Discussion
The second event of the "Toni Morrison: Sustaining Community" program presented by the Department of English of the Florida State University centers on Morrison's God Help the Child. Dr. Natalie King-Pedroso, co-editor of a collection of essays on God Help the Child, will lead a dialogue about diversity, inclusion, and acceptance, focusing on communal healing as a central theme. Bride, the novel's protagonist, is a modern African-American woman of the
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