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GULLAH GEECHEE FUNERAL AND BURIAL TRADITIONS
April 25, 2019 |  4 pm – 5:30 pm
Southport Community Center
Southport, North Carolina

Learn how Gullah Geechee funeral and burial practices reflect their shared West African ancestry and historic experiences in the Lowcountry.  

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GULLAH GEECHEE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Johns Island Regional Library
April 27, 2019 | 2 pm – 4 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Join us for an afternoon of free, documentary films that explore the richness of Gullah Geechee history and culture. The featured film, “The Language You Cry In” tells the story of how an important language link between the Gullah Geechee and the people of Sierra Leone was documented and reclaimed.  Short films to also be screened include, “Down Yonder with the McIntosh County Shouters” which explores the Gullah Geechee religious tradition of shouting, and “Gullah Geechee Foodways”, a new PBS Digital short filmed on location with Gullah Geechee chefs at the Fields Farm on Johns Island — a third, generation Gullah Geechee farm.  Free and open to the public.  

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FLORIDA PUBLIC MEETING OF GULLAH GEECHEE CULTURAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR COMMISISON
Kinsgsley Plantation | Jacksonville FL
May 4, 2019 | 9 am – Noon

The public is encouraged to come to the meeting to speak on programs, projects  and issues impacting Gullah Geechee lands and communities.  Send an e-mail to info@gullahgeecheecorridor.org or call 843.818.4587 to request time on the agenda.

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[/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.105″]GULLAH GEECHEE PROGRAMS @ CCPL
Spring 2019

The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission is proud to partner with the Charleston County Public Library on a series of programs that explore Gullah Geechee history, heritage and culture. Download a brochure listing all of our library-based Gullah Geechee programs here.

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[/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.105″]“BLACK HANDS TO WHITE MOUTHS” | CHEF KEVIN MITCHELL
May 11, 2019 | 2 pm – 4 pm
Johns Island Regional Library
Johns Island, South Carolina

Chef Kevin Mitchell who will give a free talk on his research on Charleston’s enslaved and free African-American cooks. “From Black Hands to White Mouths: Charleston’s freed and enslaved cooks and their influence on the food of the South” is a profoundly important, historical work that reclaims and restores the important role that Black cooks and African foodways had in shaping the culinary heritage of Charleston and our nation.

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[/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.105″]“COMBEE: FREEDOM-SEEKERS OF THE COMBAHEE RIVER RAID” | DR. EDDA FIELDS BLACK
May 18, 2019 | 2 pm – 4 pm
Johns Island Regional Library
Johns Island, South Carolina

An afternoon with historian Dr. Edda Fields-Black, Associate Professor in the Dep’t of History at Carnegie-Mellon University and a specialist in the trans-national migration of West African rice farmers, peasant farmers on the pre-colonial Upper Guinea Coast and enslaved laborers on rice plantations in the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry.

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GULLAH GEECHEE SUMMER SCHOOL
June 5 | June 12 | June 19
6 pm – 7:30 pm

Last year, over 100 people registered for our free, three-part videoconference designed to introduce you to Gullah Geechee history and culture.  We are pleased to bring it back. 

 

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Post Office Box 1007
Johns Island, SC 29457-1007

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(843) 818-4587

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