Thursday, January 14, 2021 - Events

January 8, 2021

Friday

The 32nd annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts & Humanities, Special Events and Zora Neale Hurston's 130th birthday will continues from Jan. 7 - 31st.
Jan 8, 2021 to Jan 31, 2021
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Description:
Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities Launches Hybrid Special Event

Highlights Include Hurston's 130th Birthday Celebration, Africa-America Women's Economic Forum, Afrofuturism Conference and Taste of Eatonville Drive-In Movie Experience.

The 32^ndannual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities (ZORA!® Festival) will continue its time-honored tradition of presenting thought provoking and culturally relevant experiential programing. A production of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.), the 2021 festival will be a Hybrid Special Event with the official launch on Thursday, January 7, 2021 celebrating Zora Neale Hurston's 130th birthday and culminating Saturday, January 31, 2021.

"Earlier this year, as we began to finalize how our organization would present the 32nd ZORA! Festival, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we determined our best course would be a hybrid event, available to a global audience. We are utilizing mu
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January 14, 2021

Thursday

Marcus Garvey Goes Home to Africa: A virtual meeting for installing Garvey statue at African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Jan 14, 2021 from 7:30pm to 8:30pm EST
Location: Virtual
Description:

On Thursday, January 14, 2021 from 7:30 until 8:30 PM, the International African Arts Festival in conjunction with the National Association of Kawaida Organizations will hold their first virtual program of the new year entitled: Marcus Garvey Goes Home to Africa. The program will focus on efforts to have a statue of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey installed at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on August 17, 2021. August 17 of this year will mark the 134th birthday of Marcus Garvey.

The speakers for this initial launching of the program will include Dr. Julius Garvey, the youngest and only surviving son of Marcus Garvey; Ambassador Yaw Davis, the founding director of the Pan African Technical Association, and; Nijel Lloyd Binns, the sculptor who has been commissioned to produce the statue that will be installed at the African Union later this year.

People can view this program by logging onto the IAAFestival website at: www.iaafestival.org

They can also ca
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Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities Launches Hybrid Special Event