About this Event
On Sunday, August 28, in celebration of the exhibition, Indigo Prayers: A Creation Story and the launch of the Praise House Project at Emory, the Carlos Museum will hold a series of public events, including a lecture and dance performance followed by an ancestral feast.
On Sunday, August 28, in celebration of the exhibition, Indigo Prayers: A Creation Story and the launch of the Praise House Project at Emory, the Carlos Museum will hold a series of public events, including a lecture and dance performance followed by an ancestral feast. At 1:30 p.m. in Emory's Cannon Chapel, join Indigo Prayers artist Charmaine Minniefield, Dr. Julie B. Johnson, chair of the Dance Department at Spelman College, and Tamara Williams, associate professor of dance at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, for a conversation about movement as medicine, embodied memory, and the Ring Shout as resistance. Following the conversations, experience a performance of the Ring Shout by the Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters from Darien, Georgia, led by seventh-generation shouter Griffin Lotson. The program is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Emory Office of Spiritual and Religious Life. For more details, visit https://carlos.emory.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D161688526.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cannon Chapel, 515 South Kilgo Circle Northeast, Atlanta, United States
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