Now Accepting Applications for the Zilphia Horton Cultural Organizing Institute
Highlander continues to use art and culture to empower marginalized communities across the South and Appalachia with the Zilphia Horton Cultural Organizing Project. The endeavor is named for Zilphia Horton, a musician, organizer, and wife of Highlander’s founder Myles Horton. It was Zilphia who showed Myles the power of culture to unite, inspire, and organize […]
Announcement: Zilphia Johnson Horton Cultural Organizing Residencies
Highlander is thrilled to announce the Cultural Organizers and Community Partners of the Zilphia Johnson Horton Cultural Organizing Project 2012-2013 Residencies. The project is named for Myles Horton’s wife Zilphia, who infused Highlander’s work with culture during the Labor Movement, steeling the resolve of striking workers through song. It brings together community organizations engaged in […]
We Shall Overcome Fund Deadline Approaching
The next funding cycle deadline for applications to the We Shall Overcome Fund is January 15, 2013. Created to nurture grassroots efforts within African American communities to use art and activism for justice, the We Shall Overcome Fund supports organizing in the South that is at the nexus of culture and social change. Started in […]
Honoring the Past, Looking to the Future: The Greensboro Justice Fund Fellowship at the Highlander Center
Highlander is thrilled to announce the second class of the Greensboro Justice Fund Fellows at the Highlander Center. The Greensboro Justice Fund was created with an award from a civil case, paid by the city of Greensboro, that found members of the Ku Klux Klan complicit in the murders of community organizers César Cauce, Mike […]
Wild & Wacky, Witty and Wonderful Workshop Work Week—Take 5!
Highlander’s 5th annual Wild & Wacky, Witty & Wonderful Workshop Work Week will take place from Tuesday, May 28 – Saturday, June 1, 2013. Workshop Work Week allows people from around the country to come to Highlander and experience the methodologies that have driven social change for the past 80 years. In the mornings, participants […]
Wild & Wacky, Witty and Wonderful Workshop Work Week—Take 5!
Highlander’s 5th annual Wild & Wacky, Witty & Wonderful Workshop Work Week will take place from Tuesday, May 28 – Saturday, June 1, 2013. Workshop Work Week allows people from around the country to come to Highlander and experience the methodologies that have driven social change for the past 80 years. In the mornings, participants […]
Now Accepting Applications – Greensboro Justice Fund Fellowships
The Highlander Research and Education Center is pleased to announce we are accepting applications for the second class of the Greensboro Justice Fund Fellowship at Highlander. Highlander was chosen, along with the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, NC, to carry on the social and economic justice legacy of the Greensboro Justice Fund (GJF) and is […]
Now accepting applications for 2012-2013 Zilphia Horton Project Cultural Organizing Residencies
Highlander Center is now accepting applications for the Zilphia Horton Project III Cultural Organizing Institute.
Requests for Proposals
Highlander is now accepting Requests for Proposals for the following: Community Partners Cultural Organizers Documentation Team Please click on the links above for more information.
Could you feel energy coming off the Highlander Hill?
An amazing group of 14 young adult artists and cultural workers representing communities across the South gathered for the first Zilphia Horton Cultural Organizing Institute at the Highlander Center May 6-12. The institute brought together a creative group of activist-artists to explore the integration of art, culture and organizing. Throughout the week, participants shared ideas […]