Wild & Wonderful, Witty & Wacky Workshop Work Week!!
5/18/09 – Update: The Workshop Work Week is full, and we are not accepting any more applications. Watch View from the Hill and the Highlander website for additional volunteer opportunities. [Lea esta entrada de blog en español] Highlander Announces Our New Wild and Wonderful Witty and Wacky Workshop Work Week!! May 25-29, 2009 Start one […]
Highlander in the Mile-High City for Creating Change Workshops and House Party
Highlander workshops on popular education, cultural organizing and building a multilingual movement were big hits at the Task Force Academy for Leadership and Action, a special track within 21st National Gay and Lesbian Task Force annual conference, Creating Change, held January 28-Feb 1 in Denver. Paper quilt created by participants in a Highlander workshop on […]
Rockwood Institute’s Art of Leadership for Southern Leaders at Highlander
Highlander collaborated with The Rockwood Leadership Institute to bring Rockwood’s “Art of Leadership” training to the South for the first time on January 26-29. This 4-day residential training was attended by 24 emerging and established leaders from across the South and was led by Michael Bell and Maria Ramos-Chertok. The Rockwood training is designed to […]
Interpreting for Social Justice – Highlander Workshop
Interpreter training workshop; Highlander, March 2008. March 27 – 29, 2009 New Market, Tennessee On March 27-29, 2009, Highlander will hold its fifteenth “Interpreting for Social Justice” workshop at its Workshop Center in New Market, TN. The workshop is designed for bilingual social justice activists who would like to learn more about interpreting and translating […]
Campo Semillas de Fuego “Vía de la Cuna a la Prisión” de Tennessee del Este
[Read this post in English] Cuando: Del 20 de febrero a las 6pm hasta el 21 de febrero a las 630pm Donde: Lideres jóvenes del este de Tennessee de edades 14-25 y lideres adultos que trabajan con jóvenes. Jóvenes menores de 18 años necesitan adulto/a que los acompañe. Si desea desafiar y cambiar la mal […]
Campo Semillas de Fuego "Vía de la Cuna a la Prisión" de Tennessee del Este
[Read this post in English] Cuando: Del 20 de febrero a las 6pm hasta el 21 de febrero a las 630pm Donde: Lideres jóvenes del este de Tennessee de edades 14-25 y lideres adultos que trabajan con jóvenes. Jóvenes menores de 18 años necesitan adulto/a que los acompañe. Si desea desafiar y cambiar la mal […]
Forum on the Solidarity Economy; March 19-22, 2009
On March 19-21, the Solidarity Economy Network will hold a national gathering, “Forum on the Solidarity Economy: Building Another World,” at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. As a member of the coordinating committee, Highlander is striving to have a good Southern and Appalachian contingent in western Mass. to share the incredible work happening in our […]
Highlander 75th Anniversary Party in Denver – January 31, 2009
Bruce Boyens • Karen & Joe Mulloy Carmen & Ray Ramirez Invite you to a fundraising house party in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of a place where history is made Highlander Center Highlander is a popular education workshop center in east Tennessee that started in 1932 and today still brings together grassroots organizers, artists, educators, […]
East Tennessee Youth Cradle to Prison Pipeline Seeds of Fire Camp
[Lea esta entrada de blog en español] When: February 20 at 6:00 pm to February 21 at 6:30 pm Where: Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 2714 Brooks Ave., Knoxville, TN 37914 Who: Young Leaders from East Tennessee- aged 14-25 and adult leaders that work with youth and young adults (All youth under 18 must have an […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – 2009
Highlander staff will be participating in a variety of Martin Luther King Day events in Knoxville, Maryville, and Dandridge, TN. These events inlcude a community forum on economic violence at the Beck Cultural Center in Knoxville and a forum at Maryville College entitled “What Would King Say” that will explore Dr. King’s perspective on four […]