Program organizers have a choice between two related, but different, programs. Both are inspirational, patriotic, and riveting. Program 1: “In Our Boots: Poems Inspired by Soldiers and Their Loved Ones,” is a multi-media poetry performance inspired by LaFrancis’s seven years of interviews with soldiers who served in Iraq and their loved ones. The presentation includes […]

Celebrate Mississippi's Bicentennial through a series of ten live outdoor summer concerts that represent Mississippi culture, history and heritage through musical genres that have directly and indirectly come from Mississippi's rich music and cultural heritage.

Join in the Fun Bring your lawn chair and enjoy Mississippi’s musical culture on Friday evenings this summer with the Levitt AMP Hattiesburg Music Series! This is apart of a 10-week music series taking place at 7pm at Chain Park during July, August and part of September (final dates and performers TBA). Chain Park will […]

Join in the Fun Bring your lawn chair and enjoy Mississippi’s musical culture on Friday evenings this summer with the Levitt AMP Hattiesburg Music Series! This is apart of a 10-week music series taking place at 7pm at Chain Park during July, August and part of September (final dates and performers TBA). Chain Park will […]

Join in the Fun Bring your lawn chair and enjoy Mississippi’s musical culture on Friday evenings this summer with the Levitt AMP Hattiesburg Music Series! The 10-week music series will take place at 7pm at Chain Park during July, August and part of September (final dates and performers TBA). Chain Park will open at 5:00 […]

L.I.F.E. (Love Is For Everybody) Summit is a one day summit for youth and young adults ages 13-19 in the Cleveland/Bolivar County area. It's purpose is to provide workshops and activities that seek to encourage them to embrace their heritage, to expound on the positive aspects of their culture, to raise awareness of the vast […]

The Oxford Film Festival and Sarah Isom Center are teaming up to celebrate the image of the Mississippi women in the Centennial celebration. With 6 films as part of the monthly series, the two will screen a film and then lead a panel discussion about the main female protagonist in each film and the interpretation […]

Based on the song written by Mississippian Bobbie Gentry, the film tells the fictional story of “the day that Billy Joe McCallister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge,” which is located within an hour of Clarksdale. Museum highlights will feature an Artist Spotlight on Tallahatchie County‘s own Sonny Boy Williamson as well as an exhibit on Sonny Boy in the gallery along […]

Take a walk through Mississippi history with Columbus Community Theatre Youth and meet some of our state's historical and colorful characters. Tours will be at: 6:30, 7, 7:30, & 8pm

Join in the Fun Bring your lawn chair and enjoy Mississippi’s musical culture on Friday evenings this summer with the Levitt AMP Hattiesburg Music Series! This is apart of a 10-week music series taking place at 7pm at Chain Park during July, August and part of September (final dates and performers TBA). Chain Park will […]

Day-long event examining the parallel between the history of blues music and state history, including documentary film showings, musical demonstrations and narrative presentations by historians and musicians.

The presentation will consider Mississippi not as a “closed society” or provincial backwater but as a “middle ground” for interaction among empires, cultures, and forces of global change. Audiences are invited to imagine pig-crazy conquistadors and Native Americans as well as the lone pilot in the Civil War air force. Myron C. Noonkester teaches history […]