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

 

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