Event Two
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Event Three
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Event Four
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Event Five
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Bows By Babs
Turn gifts into works of art while also supporting Meals on Wheels! The fabulous Bows by Babs is back! Barbara will be wrapping gifts in her truly spectacular fashion at SCI during the holidays.
There is no charge, but a donation of any size is appreciated!
Classic American Composers for Piano
6-Week Course - Starting 7/19. This survey of classical piano music by American composers includes Edward MacDowell, Amy Beach, and George Gershwin. They emerged in the late 1800s in tandem with nationalistic composers in western Europe. American pioneers struggling for acceptance and influence, their lives are as interesting as their compositions. The course is characterized by both live and recorded performances, many by twentieth-century virtuosos. ($45 members/$85 non-members)
The Oddest Voices: The Great Literary Innovators
6-Week Course - Starting 7/19. Bloom wrote that the first thing in a great writer is the oddness of the work. This course considers Melville, Dickens, Whitman, Dostoyevsky, Dickinson, and Ibsen/Strindberg, examining selected passages from their works and comparing them with works by more conventional writers. The basic inquiry is simple: what is genius?
Broadway by Brown: Stage Selections by Jason Robert Brown
This summer’s grand finale is a delightful musical performance by accomplished tenor Tanner Kin (Associate Music Minister at First Presbyterian Church) singing Broadway selections by Jason Robert Brown, including music from Parade and The Bridges of Madison County. Joining him is collaborative pianist Justin Addington (Minister of Music at First Baptist Church). ($15 member/$25 non-member)
A Boatman, Bacteriologist, and Porter Walk into City Hall
Joking aside, Luciana Spracher, director of the City of Savannah’s Municipal Archives, highlights the contributions of City of Savannah employees whose surprising job descriptions and fascinating accomplishments have been all but forgotten by time and history. ($10 members/$15 non-members)
Fitzgerald v Hemingway: Friends and Rivals in France
Lost Generation expatriates in the 1920s, F.Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway forged a friendship and sparred with one another in unforgettable settings, using legendary words. This lecture takes listeners to the Paris of a century ago and narrates the authors’ encounters, often in their own prose. ($10 members/$15 non-members).
Oscar Wilde In Savannah
Lyceum-style lecture series characterized 1800s America, with cities such as Savannah greeting visiting orators, including Oscar Wilde in 1882. Georiga Southern University literature department chair Beth Howells details the lecture and the visit, including a racially charged transportation controversy. ($10 members/$15 non-members)
Virginia Kiah: Arts, Race, and a Savannah Museum
Savannah State University professor emerita Deborah Johnson-Simon share the journey of Virginia Kiah from progressive upbringing in Baltimore to art studies in Philadelphia and New York, from practicing and teaching art in Savannah to creating a groundbreaking museum in her home. ($10 members/$15 non-member)
Southern Departures: Death and Funerals in the South
6-Week Course - Starting 7/19. Is there a particularly southern manner for leaving this world? Loosely based on Gayden Metcalf’s Being Dead is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral, this lively series explores the ways and means of dying; examines required writing surrounding the dearly departed; exposes the differences between “high” and “low” church funerals (and southern Jewish funerals too); and - last but far from least - food! It’s time to laugh instead of cry with this lighthearted look at dying in the South. ($45 members/$85 non-members)
Southern Abolitionists in the Age of Revolution
This lecture by historian Anthony Di Lorenzo explores the fascinating but often neglected experiences of southern abolitionists in early United States history including some important voices from Georgia. $10 TLC Members/$15 non-Members.
Divine Rights of Kings
6-Week Course - Starting 7/19. The idea that monarchs are God’s appointees on earth reaches to antiquity and barrels forcefully into modern European history. This episodic series examines the concept’s originals and explores various historic figures whose biographies exemplify the Divine Right, sometimes with disastrous consequences. ($45 Members/$85 Non-Members)
Short Fiction by African-American Authors
6-Week Course - Starting July 19th. African-American literary voices are as varied and nuanced as the culture itself, with each author producing a unique perspective and prose aesthetic. Authors, both familiar and unknown, lend content and texture to this reading course in which the African-American experience comes to life. ($45 Members/$85 Non-Members)
6-Week Course: When the French Flag Flew South of the Sahara
SIX WEEK COURSE - Starting 7/19. From the coastal slave trade in Senegal to a sprawling colonial empire across west and equatorial Africa, France established a presence that lingers in language and influence today. Dakar, Timbuktu Brazzaville all flew the French flag, enriched the French homeland, and served in French wars. This course explores various moments of France’s history south of the Sahara. ($45 members/$85 non-members)
Wicked Women of the Bible - 6 wk course
6 Week Course starting 7/19. The “Good Book” actually contains its share of not-so-good characters, many of them women. This course examines an assortment of these figures, ranging from Jezebel and Delilah, from Potiphar’s wife to Salome - to name just a few. Right down to chapter and verse, the Bible is the course for the panoply of scandalous stories about wicked women. (Members $45/Non-members $85)
Built From the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street | Victor Luckerson | $10
Black Wall Street was a model of African-American achievement and community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, until angry white mobs in 1921 rampaged and burned, brutalized and killed, relegating Greenwood to ashes in reality and history. In an interview with author Wanda Llloyd, Tulsa-based journalist and writer Victor Luckerson brings the history to life.
This event includes a reception of wine and appetizers. Copies of the authors book are available for purchase following the lecture.
This program is a partnership among TLC, the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH), and The Book Lady bookstore.
Georgia Women of Influence
Juliette Gordon Low: Savannah’s Gift to America | Stacy Cordery | 3:00-4:00 pm | Wednesday, May 24 | $10 for TLC Members /$15 for Guests
Savannah native Juliette Gordon, born just before the Civil War, ensnared in an unhappy marriage, and battling deafness, left a permanent legacy when she created the Girl Scout movement in the U.S.
Stacy Cordery is a professor of history at Iowa State University and the author of four books, including Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts.
For more information and to register call us at 912-236-0363
This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.
Georgia Women of Influence
Susie King Taylor: The Pathway to Freedom and Education | Hermina Glass-Hill | 3:00-4:00 pm | Wednesday, May 17 | $10 for TLC Members /$15 for Guests
Born enslaved, Susie King Taylor learned to read and write at Savannah’s secret schools, escaped plantation slavery, joined U.S. Colored Troops, taught eager soldiers and other runaways in contraband camps, and authored history’s first eyewitness account of the Civil War from a woman’s perspective.
Hermina Glass-Hill is the founding director of the Susie King Taylor Women’s Institute and Ecology Center. She has received the Governor’s Award for Arts and Humanities for preserving African-American history.
For more information and to register call us at 912-236-0363
This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.
Georgia Women of Influence
Margaret Mitchell: The South in Modern Memory | Kathleen Ann Clark | 3:00-4:00 pm | Wednesday, May 10 | $10 for TLC Members /$15 for Guests
It’s easy to dismiss Mitchell as merely a Lost Cause novelist whose epic work perpetuates southern mythology, but literary scholars are reassessing Gone With the Wind and its author’s life and legacy.
Dr. Kathleen Clark’s career in higher education includes 17 years on the faculty of the University of Georgia. She is the author of Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South and the co-editor of Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, for which she contributed the essay on Margaret Mitchell.
For more information and to register call us at 912-236-0363
This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.
Georgia Women of Influence
Abigail Minis: Matriarch of Georgia Jewry | Ann Woolner | 3:00-4:00 pm | Wednesday, May 3 | $10 for TLC Members /$15 for Guests
Abigail Minis was in her 30s with a growing family when she arrived in Georgia in 1733 among 40 other Jews, many who’d fled the Portuguese Inquisition. A businesswoman, landowner, and widowed mother of eight, she made history in colonial and revolutionary Georgia.
Ann Woolner spent 40 years as a journalist in Washington and Atlanta. In her Savannah retirement, she has written the upcoming book, Savannah’s Jews: Escaping an Inquisition and Creating a Community for Congregation Mickve Israel. She also serves on The Learning Center’s Advisory Council.
For more information and to register call us at 912-236-0363
This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.
Georgia Women of Influence
Lucy Craft Laney: Educator for the Ages | Corey Rogers | 3:00-4:00 pm | Wednesday, April 26 | $10 for TLC Members /$15 for Guests
Innovative Black educator Lucy Craft Laney taught in Macon, Milledgeville, and Savannah before founding the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute in 1883 and the Lamar Nursing School in 1887.
Corey Rogers is chief historian at the Laney Museum of Black History. He earned his master’s in history from Georgia Southern University and chairs the Historical Marker Committee for the Georgia Historical Society.
For more information and to register call us at 912-236-0363
This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.
Georgia Women of Influence
Anna Colquitt Hunter: Author of Savannah Preservation | Jamie Credle | 3:00-4:00 pm | Wednesday, April 19 | $10 for TLC Members /$15 for Guests
Chief among the women who fostered historic preservation in Savannah was Anna Colquitt Hunter, who combined her preservation passion with her skill and influence as a journalist to effect major change.
Jamie Credle is the twenty-year director of the Isaiah Davenport House Museum, the premier house museum of Historic Savannah Foundation whose preservation in 1955 was Hunter’s handiwork.
For more information and to register call us at 912-236-0363
This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.
Georgia Women of Influence
Mary Musgrove: Midwife to Colonial Georgia | Andrew Frank | 3:00-4:00 pm | Wednesday, April 12 | $10 for TLC Members /$15 for Guests
Known to school children for her vital translation skills between the native Yamacraws and Oglethorpe and the English, Mary Musgrove was an indispensable and controversial figure in colonial Georgia.
Andrew Frank, professor of history at Florida State University, specializes in the history of indigenous peoples in the American Southeast. His book is Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier.
For more information and to register call us at 912-236-0363
This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.
Georgia Women of Influence
Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence | Hal Jacobs | 3:00-5:00 pm | Thursday, April 6 | $10 for TLC Members /$15 for Guests
One of the first white southern authors to speak out against white supremacy, Lillian Smith was a voice for freedom beginning in the 1930s until her death in 1966, even before the advent of the Civil Rights Movement.
Hal Jacobs—producer and director of the documentary, filmmaker, photographer, and musician—is the founder of HJacobs Creative, which produces films on topics in the arts, the environment, and social justice with special emphasis on Georgia’s women leaders.
For more information and to register call us at 912-236-0363
This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.
TLC Author Series Presents The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg
Join us for the Learning Center’s Author Series as we invite Alena Pirok to speak on her new book, The Spirit of Williamsburg: Ghosts and Interpreting the Recreated Past.
Spectrum tourism is not just Savannah’s purview: Williamsburg also explores its ghostly past, a pursuit some call frivolous and low-brow. Yet GSU professor Alena Pirok takes a scholarly look at the phenomenon of ghostly interpretation and the emotional connection it affords its visitors.
TLC Author Series Presents Black World by Bertice Berry
Join us for the Learning Center’s Author Series as we invite Bertice Berry to speak on her new book, Black World.
It’s a corner of heaven where the living and the dead speak to each other and where heroes from African-American history come back to life. Dr. Bertice Berry delivers a lively emotional presentation about her novel, its origins, and the rich intellectual eventualities it invokes.
Georgia Women of Influence
Introduction and Welcome | 3:00-4:00 pm | Wednesday, March 29 | FREE
The Learning Center celebrates its association with Georgia Women of Achievement and Georgia Humanities with a short presentation about the partnering institutions, a forecast of the biographies comprising the series, and a welcome reception for attendees.
To register and for more information call us at 912-236-0363
This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.
From the “N Word” to Mr. Mayor: A Conversation with Otis Johnson
Witness to the waning years of Jim Crow and first-hand participant in Savannah’s Civil Rights Movement, the young Black man who would become Mayor lived and experienced the dramatic changes in his beautiful southern city. TLC director Roger Smith sits down for a one-on-one exchange with the man whose biography says it all: From the “N Word” to Mr. Mayor.
Savannah Where It Started
Savannah Where It Started | Roger Smith | $75 for TLC Members/$150 for Guests
For more information call us at 912-236-0363.
TLC Lecture
Jubilee | Roger Smith | $10 for TLC Members/$15 for Guests
For more information call us at 912-236-0363
TLC Wednesday Plenary Session
Hawaii: The Last Queen and Her Music | Warren Heilman | $10 for TLC Members/$15 for Guests
For more information call us at (912) 236-0363.