Here are some local events to celebrate Black History Month

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Now that Black Historical past Month has begun, listed below are some native occasions to take care of rejoice all month lengthy.

Augusta Museum of Historical past

All through the month of February, the Augusta Museum of Historical past will current a variety of actions each digital and in-person on the Museum together with particular movie screenings.

• Feb. 4 – Saturday Voices of the Previous presentation by Jean Embry. Shows are scheduled for 12:30, 1:30 and a couple of:30 p.m.
• Feb. 5 – The museum will host a particular Household Enjoyable Day along side the Georgia Historic Society’s Tremendous Museum Sunday program. Open from 1 to five p.m.
• Feb. 8 – The Brown Bag Historical past Lecture will function Dr. Bobby Donaldson at 12:30 p.m. These wishing to attend in-person ought to register.
• Feb. 26 – Inventive Impressions. Genius in Chains: The Evolution of Black Music in America will start at 3 p.m.

Umoja Village

Rejoice Black Historical past Month with Umoja Village at 841 Edgefield Ave. N.W. in Aiken.

The occasion, in it’s second 12 months, goals to honor the Black expertise by bringing collectively historic, entrepreneurial and different creatives in the neighborhood.

Tickets may be bought on-line by way of Eventbrite for $10 per particular person. To study extra, go to the Umoja Village web site.

• Feb. 5 – starting at 3 p.m.

Kids’s Museum

The Kids’s Museum will host Black Historical past Month Playtime: Jazz and Craft at 965 Hickman Highway.

• Feb. 7 – from 10 to 11 a.m.

Sacred Coronary heart Cultural Heart

The Sacred Coronary heart Cultural Heart will host the speaker Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. for the fifteenth Annual Interfaith Celebration.

This occasion will likely be free and open to the general public.

• Feb. 15 – from 6:45 to 9:30 p.m.

Metropolis of Aiken

The Metropolis of Aiken Parks, Recreation & Tourism Division will current the Black Historical past Parade on Hampton Avenue.

The Metropolis of Aiken companions together with the Black Historic Committee to current The Annual Black Historical past Parade. This parade combines a number of golf equipment, organizations and teams to honor Black Historical past.

• Feb. 18 – beginning at 2 p.m.

The Metropolis of Aiken Parks, Recreation & Tourism Division will host the thirteenth Annual Black Historical past Live performance on the Lessie B. Worth Aiken Senior & Youth Heart, situated at 841 Edgefield Ave NW, Aiken, SC 29801.

The thirteenth Annual Black Historical past Live performance is for all ages; adults should accompany kids. The live performance will function native CSRA favorites, Preston & Weston. To buy tickets, go to the Odell Weeks Actions Heart, Smith-Hazel Recreation Heart, or the Lessie B. Worth Aiken Senior & Youth Heart.

Tickets are $20 prematurely or $25 on the door. This program has a restricted capability, and we encourage members to buy tickets prematurely. This 12 months’s occasion could have a catered meal, and a door prize raffle.

• Feb. 25 – from 6 to 9 p.m.

Augusta VA Medical Heart

The VA Medical Heart will host it’s Black Historical past Month observance on the Uptown campus auditorium on the third ground.

• Feb. 23 – from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Augusta Municipal Constructing

Annually, the Workplace of the Mayor, the Higher Augusta Arts Council, and Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black Historical past host a Black historical past exhibition that options photos from the Mayoral Assortment.

This 12 months, the Arts Council has linked with the Golden Blocks Legends Comedian guide group to include prints from their work on their first function comedian alongside the Mayoral Assortment within the Metropolis Gallery, titled POW! Folks of Marvel.

• Feb. 24 – from 10 to 11 a.m. a free tour of the exhibit led by Dr. Juan Walker and Corey Rogers
• Till Mar. 1

Snelling Convention Heart

The primary Fundraiser Gala: Harlem Nights, Remembering the Renaissance, will likely be on the Snelling Convention Heart.

The host, Transformation Coaching Institute, Inc., nonprofit 501c3 group will use proceeds collected from this occasion to proceed offering inexpensive and free high quality trainings on the subjects of cultural range and psychological well being.

There will likely be gold carpet photographs, and a silent public sale with paintings from native artist and meet & greet.

There will likely be nice meals, leisure, Trailblazer Awards, and moments of black historical past studying expertise. Ticket donations for this occasion is tax deductible.

• Feb. 25 – from 6:30 to 10 p.m.

The Williams Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

The Williams Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church will host the annual Black Historical past and Unity Day Celebration that includes the keynote speaker, Mr. Jared T. Williams.

Williams is the District Legal professional for the Augusta Judicial Circuit and the primary African-American elected to this place.

This 12 months’s theme is Power Behind Us; Greatness Forward of Us. This system is open to the general public and will likely be streamed dwell by way of social media platforms and may be accessed by way of the church web site.

• Feb. 26 – starting at 10 a.m.

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