SLIS Prison Program Lunch and Learn

This Week via Zoom: Join MHC Project Coordinator Carla Falkner and others to learn about educational initiatives for incarcerated youth and adults.

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Plant-Based Pigments with Robin Whitfield

USM Liberal Arts Building 114 N. 31st Ave., Hattiesburg, MS

Medicine Wheel Garden Event at USM Hattiesburg Campus The Center of American Indian Research and Studies (CAIRS) at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) is partnering with the Mississippi Humanities Council, WECAN (Women's Earth & Climate Action Network) and the Telenutrition Center to present several events throughout the year at the Medicine Wheel Garden, located […]

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Speaker’s Bureau: “Murder on Pretty Creek: New Revelations on an Old Case”

Historic Natchez Foundation 108 S. Commerce St., Natchez, MS, United States

The killing of Ben Chester White, one of the brutal murders that occurred in Natchez during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, will be discussed by Stanley Nelson at the Tuesday, Sept. 26, meeting of the Natchez Historical Society. The meeting begins with a social at 5:30 p.m. and Nelson’s presentation at 6 p.m., […]

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MS Delta Civil Rights Heritage Tourism Summit

BB King Museum 400 Second Street, Indianola, MS, United States

About the Summit As a follow up to these events, MS Delta NHA/Delta Center, BB King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, Mississippi Humanities Council, Mound Bayou Museum, the National Park Service, and other regional partners are collaborating to host a Civil Rights Heritage Tourism Summit. The Summit is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, September […]

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Invisible Histories Project

Municipal Art Gallery 839 N. State Street, Jackson, Mississippi

Magnolia Memories: Mississippi’s LGBTQ History Exhibit and related public programs documenting and exploring Mississippi’s LGBTQ history from the 1960s through the 2000s including text and artifacts, textiles, audio/visual content and art.

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Banned Book Week 2023

Mississippi University for Women 1100 College Street, Columbus, MS

Banned Book Week- October 1-7, 2023- is a celebration of our right to create, share and have access to the diverse experiences, thoughts and feelings of all people of the world. Librarians and educators in Columbus will participate in Banned Book Week by hosting a series of events at Mississippi University for Women and the […]

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2023 Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival

Coahoma Community College 3240 Friars Point Road, Clarksdale, MS, United States

Annual festival examining the life and works of playwright Tennessee Williams. The 2023 festival will explore two Williams’ plays, The Unsatisfactory Supper and Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton, upon which the controversial 1956 film Baby Doll was based.   THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 Overview: Tour the Delta en route to Benoit. Lunch and Program in Benoit; […]

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Mississippi River Basin Model 80th Anniversary

Buddy Butts Park 6180 McRaven Road , Jackson , MS

Friends of the Mississippi River Basin Model is a non-profit organization helping to restore the Mississippi River Basin Model, renew Buddy Butts Park, and enhance educational opportunities for children in Mississippi. The Mississippi River Basin Model (MRBM) located in Jackson, MS is a scale replica of the Mississippi River Basin. The site, which sprawls over […]

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Annual Art Crawl

Dancing Bear Sanctuary Water Valley, MS

Annual Art Crawl Is A Night Of Artistic Experience And Water Valley Hospitality The Water Valley Main Street Association 15th annual Water Valley Art Crawl is on October 14. The immersive event is a culmination and celebration of all things art; featuring poetry readings, artist discussions, exhibition viewings, musical experiences, mural and installation stops, and […]

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Sunday Screening: The Only Doctor

TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS 222 NORTH STREET , JACKSON, MS, United States

The Mississippi Humanities Council and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History presents Sunday Screening of The Only Doctor in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums on Sunday, October 15 from 2pm to 4:30pm. The film documents Dr. Karen Kinsell's effort to keep her rural clinic open in Clay County, Georgia, […]

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The Holtzclaw Lecture

Shirley Hopkins Davis Amphitheater 34175 MS-18, Utica, MS, United States

The Holtzclaw Lecture with Ralph Eubanks, "The Mississippi Delta Beyond the Blues" October 16th, 2:00pm. Eubanks argues that every Mississippian should develop a closer idea of the real Mississippi Delta beyond the mythology that has been constructed over the years. In this talk, he'll examine the political, policu, and cultural issues that have disadvantaged the […]

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