TJ Wallace
The Crescendo Arts Festival and Pat Conroy Literary Festival will present a free writing workshop on November 4 at 1:00 p.m. led by award-winning poet and memoirist E. Ethelbert Miller that will examine how writing can help one cope with a crisis. SC Humanities supported this program with a Fast Track Literary Grant. The workshop will … Read more
Newberry College will present the 9th Annual Dufford Diversity and Inclusion Week on October 25 – November 1, 2021. The program will include a variety of events such as speakers, film screenings, and workshops. This programming was supported with funding from a Growth Grant from South Carolina Humanities. Funding for the Growth Grants has been … Read more
South Carolina ETV, the ETV Endowment of South Carolina, the University of South Carolina Center for Civil Rights History & Research and University South Caroliniana Society will host a special community event exploring the lives and suffrage work of the Rollin sisters of South Carolina. The film and panel discussion event will take place on … Read more
Allen University will host a free virtual event on Thursday, October 28, 6:30pm-8:30pm to celebrate the life of Ota Benga and Columbia-based author Carrie Allen McCray’s efforts to commemorate his life through her poetry collection, Ota Benga Under My Mother’s Roof. The virtual event will feature a talk by Pulitzer prize-winning author Pamela Newkirk who … Read more
The South Carolina Humanities Board of Directors awarded more than $61,000 in Major Grants to 9 cultural organizations after a September 24, 2021 Board Meeting in Columbia. The awards were selected through a competitive application and review process and are made possible by SC Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Matching community support for the … Read more
Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina is a five-volume anthology spanning the decades from 1930 to 1980 with oral history interviews of key activists and leaders of the civil rights movement in South Carolina. SC Humanities supported this project with a grant for transcription. Editor Marvin Ira Lare introduces more than one hundred … Read more
The 2021 Free Verse Festival will be the fifth annual offering of this innovative and eclectic all-poetry literary festival. A wide variety of events will take place October 1 – 31, 2021 in both virtual and in-person formats. SC Humanities supported this program with a Fast Track Literary Grant. The festival kicks off with an open … Read more
The SC African American Heritage Commission (SCAAHC) will open the exhibit “Black Carolinians Speak: Portraits of a Pandemic,” on Friday, July 16, 2021 at the SC Archives and History Center at 8301 Parklane Road in Columbia. Additionally, public programs will take place in the fall. SC Humanities supported this project with a Major Grant. The exhibit … Read more
“Picturing Democracy” is a series of programs designed to encourage critical thinking about the role of imagery in American democracy and how both information and misinformation can be spread through images. Join us in the Fall of 2021 for three public programs addressing media literacy, the future of photojournalism, and the influence of meme culture. … Read more
