A Moveable Feast Celebrating Community Knowledge & Expertise Through the Arts Carpetbag Theatre will present its 5th annual Show What You Know Festival October 11-14, 2007 in Knoxville, TN. Participants will experience four days of community-based arts events in multiple venues throughout Greater Knoxville, including a local artist showcase; community… Read More
75th Anniversary Merchandise Now Available Online! – 75th anniversary t-shirts, tote bags, CD’s, songbooks, and Highlander’s book of years (with a timeline of Highlander’s work and pictures from the Highlander archives). To hear a short sample from the 75th Anniversary CD, Harmonies from the Hill – Vol. 1,… Read More
The first pictures and audio clips from Highlander’s 75th anniversary celebration are available on the Highlander website at www.test.highlandercenter.org/anniversary/documentation.asp. The pictures include photographs from the opening plenary on Saturday and photographs of wide range of participants on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The audio clips include remarks by Reverend… Read More
If you attended the 75th Anniversary Celebration at Highlander on August 31-September 2, 2007, we would love to hear about your experiences here. Why did you decide to come to Highlander that weekend, what did you do here, and how will your experience help you in your work for justice?… Read More
In conjunction with Highlander’s 75th anniversary, the University of Tennessee library will be showing documentaries about Highlander and the issues it has addressed. Films inlcude: You Got to Move, We Shall Overcome, Morristown in the Air and Sun, Up the Ridge, and The Telling Takes Me Home. The series runs… Read More
Highlander is receiving extensive press coverage for its 75th anniversary. Articles have been published in the Knoxville News-Sentinel (three articles & an editorial), La Jornada (Mexico; two articles), New American Media, the AFL-CIO Now Blog, El ClarÃn de Chile, Knoxville Voice, and Metro Pulse (Knoxville). Stories have aired on… Read More
Highlander is receiving extensive press coverage for its 75th anniversary. Articles have been published in the Knoxville News-Sentinel (three articles & an editorial), La Jornada (Mexico; two articles), New American Media, the AFL-CIO Now Blog, El ClarÃn de Chile, Knoxville Voice, and Metro Pulse (Knoxville). Stories have aired on… Read More
Highlander’s 75th Anninversary Celebration (8/31-9/2/2007) was an incredible experience. Over 1,000 people came to Highlander for three days of workshops, strategy sessions, music, dancing, performances, and more. Participants included activists and organizers from across the region and the world – veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, people… Read More
There’s somethinig about being in the mountains that always reminds me of Haiti and this weekend in New Market Tennessee attending the Highlander Research and Education Center’s 75th Anniversary has been no different. What makes this memory so apt is the legacy of this center in the Tennesee hills that… Read More
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