Friday, September 20: Opening Activities
1:30 – 5:30 pm: Highlander Leadership Program Cross-Class Learning Exchange
7:00 – 9:00 pm: Screening of American Revolutionary, the award-winning documentary about Grace Lee Boggs, at the East Tennessee History Center. Co-sponsored by the Knox Public Library.
Saturday, September 21
10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Main Tent | Workshop Center | Library/Resource Center | Cultural Pavilion | Suite | ||
10 | 10 am – Noon:Opening plenary with Grace Boggs, Nelson and Joyce Johnson, Yeshimabeit Milner, and Ethan Hamblin | 10 am – 5 pm:Open Space for Art-Making | 10 am – 5 pm:Children’s Program | |||
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Noon | Noon – 1:30 pm: Lunch in Dining Room | Noon – 1:30 pm: Bookstore Open | Noon – 1:30 pm: Lunch in Dining Room | |||
1 pm | ||||||
1:30 – 3:00:Town Hall Round Table Discussions of current moment and its challenges, lessons, strategies and opportunities | ||||||
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3 | 3:00 – 4:30:Large group conversation and closing remarks by Grace Boggs and Robin Kelley | |||||
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4:45 – 5:30: Walking Tour of the grounds, departing from Main Tent at 4:45 | 4:30 – 7:00 pm:Bookstore Open | |||||
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5:30 – 6:30 pm: Dinner in Dining Room**If you’d like, grab some food and head to the Pavilion for our dinner conversation with Robin Kelley! | ||||||
6 | 6:00 – 7:00 pm: Dinner Conversation with Robin Kelley | |||||
7 | 7:00 – 9:00 pm:Dance and music by Knoxville soul and R&B group Aftah Party | 7:00 – 9:00 pm:Screening of Brother Outsider | ||||
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Sunday, September 22
9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Main Tent | Workshop Center | Library/Resource Center | Cultural Pavilion | Suite | ||
8 am | 8 am – 10:15 am:Bookstore Open | |||||
9 | 9:00 – 10:00 am: Opening: What’s Up at Highlander | 9 am – 3 pm:Open space for Art-making | 9 am – 3 pm:Children’s Program | |||
10 | Short break | |||||
10:15 am – 12:00 pm:Movement Infrastructure in the 21st Century South presented by Highlander and Project South | 10:15 – 1:45 pm:People’s Movement Assembly Presented by Move to Amend | 10:15 am – 11:30 am: Jeanne Theoharis | ||||
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Bookstore Open | ||||||
Noon | Noon – 1:30: Lunch In Dining Room**Lunch will be brought to Move to Amend’s People’s Movement Assembly Participants** | |||||
1 pm | ||||||
1:00 – 1:45 pm: Walking Tour of grounds, leaving Main Tent at 1:00 | People’s Movement Assembly | Bookstore Open | ||||
2 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm:Large Group Closing |