SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
(Note: Schedule as of May 10, 2010)
Celebrate Movement and Dance
Celebrate Music
Celebrate History
Celebrate Literature and the Spoken Word
Celebrate Craft and Art Traditions
Celebrate Heritage
Celebrate Food
Celebrate Movement and Dance
Auditorium Stage, Lobby Level
Emcee: Warren Keyes
11–11:40 a.m.
Westover High School Percussion Section Drum Line
Noon–12:40 p.m.
Quality Education Academy Concert Band
1–1:40 p.m.
Cyrus Art Production, modern dance performance and workshop
2–2:40 p.m.
Community Christian Center Praise Team, praise dance performance and workshop
3–3:40 p.m.
Collage Dance Company, African dance performance and workshop
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Celebrate Music
Staircase Stage, Lobby Level
Emcee: Ken Grady, WNCU jazz host
11:15–11:45 a.m.
Grenaldo Frazier, composer, musician, actor
12:30–1:10 p.m.
Connie Steadman, stories and songs
1:30–2:15 p.m.
Gerald Hinton, gospel
2:30–3:15 p.m.
Abdullah Rahman Trio, jazz
3:30–4 p.m.
Big Ron Hunter, blues
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Celebrate History
Longleaf Room, Classroom Level
Host: Earl Ijames, curator, N.C. Museum of History
12:30–1 p.m.
Audacity of Hope: George Eastman and the Eastman Community School
Scott Washington and Eastman alumni
1:15–1:45 p.m.
Scenes from The Honored Guest, Frederick Douglass At Home
Rudy Wallace, playwright
2–2:30 p.m.
N.C. Projects and Plans for the National Museum of African American History and Culture by the Freelon Group
Philip Freelon, architect
2:45–3:15 p.m.
The Winton Triangle: A 260-Year-Old Landowning Community of Color
Marvin Jones, photographer and consultant
3:30–4 p.m.
Screening and Q&A: February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
Rebecca Cerese, producer
4 –4:30 p.m.
Rebels off the plantation: Locating maroon colonies in North Carolina
Daniel Papsdorf, graduate student, Wichita State University
1920s Drugstore, Third Floor
1:15–1:30 p.m., 2–2:15 p.m.
Holmes Morrison
Morrison portrays the character Dr. Kirkpatrick, who reflects on his grandmother’s struggles with segregation as a domestic worker known for her “doctoring.”
Bicentennial Plaza
10 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m.
African American Heritage Tours of Raleigh by Capital City Tours
$15 adults/children free (limit 24 per tour); register at front desk.
Fletcher Garden
11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Fort Fisher and Aycock Birthplace State Historic Sites and U.S. Colored Troops Reenactors Encampment
Civil War reenactment
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Celebrate Literature and the Spoken Word
Demonstration Gallery, Lobby Level
Host: Eleanora Tate, children’s book author
11:30 a.m.–noon
Joan J, author of It’s in the Book!
12:15–12:45 p.m.
Wayne Winkler, author of Walking toward the Sunset
1:15–1:45 p.m.
Storytellers from the N.C. Association of Black Storytellers
2:15–2:45 p.m.
Zelda Lockhart, author and Piedmont Laureate, with “Stories from the Kitchen,” recollections from elders Mama and Baba Shabu
3–4 p.m.
Story Time with Terry Warner and Wanda Cox-Bailey, children’s librarians, Richard B. Harrison Library
Museum Shop, Lobby Level
1:30 p.m.
Book Signing: A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot
LeRae Umfleet, author
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Celebrate Craft and Art Traditions
11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Lobby Level and Third Floor
Demonstrations
Lobby Level
Neal Thomas, basketmaker
Jerome Bias, furniture maker
Frank Barrow, carver
Marilyn Griffin, doll maker
Bennie Baker, pipe maker
Second Floor
Kisha Rawlinson, sweetgrass basketmaker
Jonathan Daniel, wire artist
Third Floor
Pinkie Strother, miniatures and clay figurines
Activities
Lobby Level
African American Quilt Circle: Join the quilting bee.
Scavenger Hunt: Register to win a quilt.
Third Floor
Wheel of History: Test your knowledge of African American history.
Tobacco Tying: Learn about sharecropping history and tie a hand of tobacco with staff from Duke Homestead State Historic Site.
Acrostics: Find out about poet George Moses Horton and write your own acrostic poem with staff from Historic Halifax State Historic Site.
Cowrie Necklaces: Learn about Stagville State Historic Site and make a necklace from cowrie shells.
Dancing Dolls: Try a dancing doll with Arnez Shipman, grandson of master craftsman George SerVance.
The Right to Vote: Participate in a voter registration activity to learn about the impact of the 1965 Voting Rights Act with staff from the N.C. State Capitol.
Made from the Land: Handle reproduction objects with staff from Somerset Place State Historic Site.
Cornrows and Construction: Learn about trades taught at Latta University with staff from the Latta House Foundation and work ona creative art project.
The Correct Thing: Practice table setting and etiquette with staff from Charlotte Hawkins Brown State Historic Site.
Dogwood Room, Classroom Level
African Games: Learn to play mancala and achi.
Cardinal Room, Classroom Level
1–1:30 p.m.
Clay Figurine Workshop with Pinkie Strother
Ages 9 and up (limit 15); register at front desk.
Exhibits
Lobby Level
Triangle African American Artists Association, collection of works by Triangle-area artists.
Classroom Level
The Obama Quilt, quilt by Quancidine Hinson-Gribble selected for the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.’s presidential inauguration exhibit
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Celebrate Heritage
11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Lobby Level
Mama and Baba Shabu, book signing
N.C. Freedom Monument
N.C. Museum of History Associates
Wayne Winkler, book signing
Second Floor
Cultural Enrichment Services, Timbuktu exhibit
NCGives: Enjoy a 10-minute documentary celebrating African American traditions of giving. (Screenings on the half-hour, starting at 11:30am)
Yalik’s Modern Art
Third Floor
African American Cultural Complex
Historic Edenton, the Harriet Jacobs Story
House Theatre Arts Group
Journeys toward Freedom: African American History at N.C. State Historic Sites
Montford Point Marines Museum
National Association of African Americans in Human Resources
Rosenwald Schools Project
Saint Augustine’s College
W. E. B. DuBois Community Development Corporation, educational and cultural programs
Classroom Level
N.C. Association of Black Storytellers
Richard B. Harrison Library
Sherrod Gresham, African American History Through Stamps and Coins
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Celebrate Food
Cardinal Room, Classroom Level
2–2:45 p.m.,3–3:45 p.m.
Healthy Hometown Food on a Budget—Cooking with Rhonda Muhammad
Demonstration and tasting
Bicentennial Plaza
11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Ms. Lynn’s Concessions: wings, fish, hot dogs, hamburgers, funnel cakes
Concessions Galore: funnel cakes, cotton candy, popcorn, nachos, hot dogs, hot drinks, waters, sodas
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