WEEKEND FESTIVITIES - 2010 SCHEDULE
• Friday, August 20, 2010 - Kickoff Soiree
- Casino Theatre, Neptune Park at the Pier, 6:00pm, $10.00
• Saturday, August 21, 2010
- Festival of Arts & the People - Gascoigne Park, 11:00am-6:00pm, Free
- Rock & Roll / Reggae / Rhythm & Blues Dance Party - 8:00pm-11:30pm, $10.00
• Sunday, August 22, 2010
- Mourning Sojourn with the Ancestors - Where the Spirit is in the Water, East Beach, 7:00am-8:00am, Free
- Sea Islands Black Heritage Virtual Tours - 9:00am-10:30am, $10.00
- Island Worship, First African Baptist Church, Celebrating 151 Years, 11:00am-12:00pm
- Panel - Post Traumatic Slavery & Healing, 3:00pm-5pm, $5.00
Jazz, African dance, classical spirituals, gospel, drums, song, dance, theatre, film, fine arts, poetry, arts & crafts; Children’s Corner! Join us and experience the art of basket weaving, quilting, storytellers telling lives; Miss Annie’s Red Marsh and Green Leaf Cakes, Butterfly Nut Brownies; Mattie Pearl’s Geechee/Gullah Preserves; Country cuisine and the joy of life!
Casino Theatre
Neptune Park at the Pier
Friday, August 20th, 2010
6:00pm
$10.00
Guest Speaker, music, theatre, poerty, drums, arts & crafts.
Be There!!
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Jessie M. Odom, an extraordinary artist, will direct the newly-developed Children's Corner in a creative and dynamic environment for children of all age groups. Vivian Mitchell, an accomplished painter will teach painting, drawing and pottery in the Children's Corner.
WELCOME
If you are looking for sun, towering oak trees draped in Spanish moss, the sound of the Atlantic, multi-colored marshlands, serenity, history and culture - it's here! St. Simons Island ... home of the Sea Islands Black Heritage Festival! Come and discover you. Let the mood of the tides and the salt-water winds ease you into a voyage of history, education, and culture.
A plethora of choices await you. Touring and visiting historic sites - Slave Cabins; Ruins; First African Baptist Church, established before the Civil War in 1859; Robert S. Abbott's monument at Fort Frederica; Ebo Landing; African American burial grounds; Baptismal sites of yesteryear.
Sports include fishing, tennis, golf, horseback riding, dolphin tours, sailing, windsurfing, adventure challenge ropes course, hiking, nature walks. Four and five star restaurants featuring dishes from around the world and Mattie Pearl's Low Country Preserves and other native cuisine.
Visit Brunswick, known for its renaissance style, old grace and charm of an old Victorian painting fusing Spanish moss, marshes of different hues, birds of different feathers, marina and port, excellent restaurants, night life, artist community, a myriad of religions, and the beauty of its people.
The age-old port city is also known, along with its sister city of Savannah, as the two great port sites of the Southeast Coast. Visitors remember Brunswick's captivating charm and the serene Golden Isles - St. Simons Island, Little St. Simons Island, Jekyll Island, and Sea Island. When leaving Brunswick and the Golden Isles, let the spirit of the Sea Islanders nourish your soul until you return again, again, and again!
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