Events

Join us for a delightful Hat and Tea Lunch Program featuring an array of engaging activities. Guests can look forward to raffle, a spirited big hat contest, and a delectable light bites paired with a variety of fine teas. The highlight of the event will be a compelling book talk by Dr. Elizabeth Boyd, discussing her acclaimed work, Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South. Don't miss this unique blend of fashion, flavor, and fascinating insights into Southern culture. 

Tickets are $35 for non-members and $30 for members. 

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Join author of Beware the Tall Grass Ellen Birkett Morris at a Kentucky Great Writers event, hosted by The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.

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Attend a lively discussion with an editor and two contributors of Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging.

A discussion about women artists and writers on self-perception and self-imposed expectations on aging, creativity, and power.

In Old Enough, twenty-one women artists and writers write about the experience of aging. Gay, straight, unmarried, partnered, widowed, Black, white, Latinx, retired, and working, these women are not squeamish about the challenges of growing older, including ageism, health concerns, and loss. And they are frank about how received notions of female aging can be restrictive and diminishing. But in lyrical, sometimes wry, often inspiring essays they explore what growing older can offer: self-knowledge, insight, and acceptance. Striking portraits by award-winning photographer Carolyn Sherer, who is also a contributor to the volume, accompany each essay.

At the heart of this collection is the bold championing of creative practice. Some contributors look back to their girlhood to recall their first powerful connections to art, while others show how they have refreshed their commitment to maintaining a practice. However, all are still driven to create and to investigate, to stay committed to the processes that work while finding new ways to stay creatively alive. Old Enough aims to honor the limitless variety, depth, and scope of being “old enough” and will resonate with readers who want to understand and find purpose, meaning, and comradery in their creative journey.

Books will be available for sale and signing from Bookmiser.

Registration is recommended.

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Bring your blankets and chairs, snacks and drinks, and friends, and join us at the Solomon Juneau statue for this beloved summer reading series, now entering its tenth year. Poetry in the Park takes place in Juneau Park on the second Tuesday of the summer months (with rain dates on the second Wednesday of the month). This season of outdoor readings are made possible with support from Juneau Park Friends and the National Endowment for the Arts.


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Tony Barnhart will give a talk about his book The 19 of Greene as part of Historic Macon's Sidney’s Salons lecture series.

This event is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.

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OLD ENOUGH: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging

A conversation with contributors featuring Patricia Foster, Jennifer Horne, Jay Lamar, Wendy Reed, Jeanie Thompson, and Jacqueline Allen Trimble. Introduction by Frye Gaillard.

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