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Saturday, February 1
2-3:30 p.m. - The Art Tatum African American Resource Center
at Kent Branch presents From Whence We Came … Again.
Local History and Genealogy librarian/historian Donna
Christian will conduct a workshop that provides useful
tools and strategies for African-Americans interested in
tracing their roots. The program builds upon The Tatum
Center’s 2012 Whence You Came workshop. Registration
is requested, please call 419.259.5340.
3:30pm – Kent Library & The Tatum Center are co-hosting a
reception to kick off an art exhibit that will be displayed
throughout the branch. This mixed media exhibit will include
paintings, masks, ceramics and stencil drawings. It will
feature the works of local African-American artists
Novarro Gibson, Alice Grace, Ameldia Mays and Ron
Jamison. (The exhibit is scheduled on view in February
and March).
Saturday, February 15
2 p.m. - The Tatum Center presents Brother Outsider,
a film /documentary on civil
rights hero and strategist Bayard Rustin. Rustin is
credited with organizing the historic 1963 March on
Washington. A discussion will follow the film lead by
Tatum Board member Eugene Washington. |
