Fall Gardening Day at Highlander
On October 26, 2008, twelve members of the Good Karma Gardening Circle and other friends of Highlander spent the day preparing the gardens at Highlander’s office and the Horton House for winter. They also shared great conversation, enjoyed a delicious lunch, picked apples in Highlander’s new orchard, and examined an enormous praying mantis. Participants in […]
Volunteer Gardening Day at Highlander; 10/26/08
Please join us at Highlander on Sunday, October 26th, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. to enjoy the fall weather and the beautiful view of the mountains, and to help prepare our gardens for the winter. Activities will include: weeding, pruning, planting, clearing plant debris, digging, and mulching. Please bring gloves and gardening tools if […]
Show What You Know Festival 2008; 10/7-11/08
Carpetbag Theater presents the Show What You Know Festival 2008. The Show What You Know Festival is a celebration of community knowledge and expertise through the arts. Participants may experience a full week of community-based arts events including Spoken Word, community song- building, performances and workshops. Events of the Festival: Tuesday, 10/07/08: Discussion and Excerpts […]
Know Your Rights: Train-the-Trainers (in Spanish)
The Highlander Research and Education Center and The East Tennessee Rapid Response Coalition present Know Your Rights: Train-the-Trainers (in Spanish) This all day workshop is for allies and community members who want to learn how to conduct educational Know Your Rights workshops using popular education and other participatory methods. Participants should be fluent and comfortable […]
Highlander Exhibit and Program Series at the University of Georgia
Highlander’s 75-year history of working for social, economic, and racial justice are the focus of “Highlander Center: Weaving Threads of Justice Exhibit and Program Series” at the Richard B. Russell Library Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia. The exibit includes Highlander’s 75th-anniversary timeline, photographs from Highlander’s archives, historic film footage […]
Highlander Holds Second Session of THREADS: A Leadership & Organizing School
10/20/08 – Pictures from the second THREADS session are now online here. ——– On August 15-17, Highlander held the second session of THREADS: A Leadership and Organizing School, our new multi-racial, intergenerational leadership and organizer training institute. The session was attended by thirty activists and leaders from the twenty-one participating groups, which are located in […]
Highlander Holds Second Session of THREADS: A Leadership & Organizing School
10/20/08 – Pictures from the second THREADS session are now online here. ——– On August 15-17, Highlander held the second session of THREADS: A Leadership and Organizing School, our new multi-racial, intergenerational leadership and organizer training institute. The session was attended by thirty activists and leaders from the twenty-one participating groups, which are located in […]
Rockwood’s “Art of Leadership for Southern Leaders” Coming to Highlander; January 26-29, 2009
Highlander is pleased to be hosting The Rockwood Leadership Institute in a collaborative effort to bring Rockwood’s “Art of Leadership” training to the South for the first time. This 4-day, residential training is “designed to teach powerful visioning, listening, speaking, presentation, coaching, team-building, and feedback skills to emerging and established leaders.” It will be led […]
Rockwood's "Art of Leadership for Southern Leaders" Coming to Highlander; January 26-29, 2009
Highlander is pleased to be hosting The Rockwood Leadership Institute in a collaborative effort to bring Rockwood’s “Art of Leadership” training to the South for the first time. This 4-day, residential training is “designed to teach powerful visioning, listening, speaking, presentation, coaching, team-building, and feedback skills to emerging and established leaders.” It will be led […]
Equal Voice – A Campaign for America’s Families
On September 6, 15,000 families gathered in Birmingham, Chicago and Los Angeles in a powerful national convening of Equal Voice for America’s Families, a campaign of the Marguerite Casey Foundation in partnership with grantees and others to shift attitudes and policies affecting poor and working-class families. The three cities were linked via satellite, and the […]