The Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration (NLCC) is one of the state’s most significant annual events devoted to literature, history, film, and culture. In its thirty-four-year history, the NLCC has won numerous state and regional awards for outstanding humanities programming.
The theme, “Rites, Rituals, and Religion in the Deep South,” will include scholarly presentations, lively conversations, and events which will examine such topics as death and burial rites, historical cemeteries and their influence on landscape architecture, mourning practices, church rituals, voodooism, and antebellum Christmas traditions. 2024 presenter and author Greg Melville states in his book Over My Dead Body, “A cemetery is the soul of its town . . . graveyards across the country are time capsules of our communities, recording –and sometimes even shaping-America’s winding forward path.” This two-and- a half-day event will explain how early Mississippians used these traditions to establish cultural norms, institutional practices, and patterns of social responsibility which continue to define us today.
2024 Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration
Thursday, February 22, 2024- Natchez Convention Center, 211 Main Street
