TJ Wallace
Greenville Chautauqua’s 2021 History Comes Alive festival will be held September 3 – 12 at the Mauldin Cultural Center Outdoor Ampitheater and other venues. The festival features live performances by nationally acclaimed historical interpreters recreating the stories of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Hedy Lamar, and Rosa Parks. This programming was supported with funding … Read more
Glow Lyric Theatre, in partnership with Walt’s Waltz, has created a new series of free virtual lectures and facilitated discussions on the intersection of the arts, race, identity and the events of the pandemic on mental health. The lectures are part of their presentation of “Rock Opera” from August 19 – August 29th. This programming … Read more
Richland Library has launched two interactive StoryWalk® trails in the Midlands, located at Doko Meadows Park in Blythewood and Caughman Road Park in Hopkins. The project offers families the opportunity to celebrate a love of reading, keep moving, and experience a local park together. SC Humanities supported this effort with a Major Grant. A StoryWalk® … Read more
The Luminal Theater will screen the 2016 documentary UNAPOLOGETIC on Thursday, September 23, 2021 at a theater in Northeast Columbia. The film follows two female activists in Chicago fighting for racial equity. An intergenerational discussion about activism in South Carolina will take place on September 22. SC Humanities supported this program with a Mini Grant. … Read more
Francis Marion University will kick off their “Universities Studying Slavery” (USS) initiative with a performance by noted poet Glenis Redmond on September 23, 2021. SC Humanities helped support this program with a Fast Track Literary Grant. The USS initiative is open to any school contemplating or already investigating its own history as it relates to … Read more
The exhibit Ecos: Resonances of South Carolina Latino Stories will be on display at the Public Works Art Center in Summerville, SC from July 30 – September 10, 2021. This collaborative multimedia art exhibition featuring the stories of Latino immigrants in the Lowcountry interpreted by 20 select Latino South Carolina visual artists. The Citadel Oral History Program collected the … Read more
SC Humanities is pleased to announce that eight new speakers have joined the Speakers Bureau: Humanities Out Loud program in 2021. Offering a variety of interesting programs from “The History of Black Children’s Literature” to “Public Health and Pandemics in the Atlantic World” to “From Gone with the Wind to Steel Magnolias: In Search of … Read more
The Olympia Mill Village Museum will present two free classes on July 13 and July 14, 2021 that will combine elements of historic education, crafting, and social interaction. SC Humanities supported this program with a Mini Grant. The Olympia-Granby Historical Foundation was established in 2014 in Columbia to create the Olympia Mill Village Museum to … Read more
Click here to download the Spanish version. South Carolina Humanities is honored to provide funding to humanities organizations facing financial hardship as a result of COVID-19. Funding for the SC Humanities Growth Grants has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities Federal and State Partnership Division as part of the American Rescue Plan … Read more
