Highlander Research and Education Center - 75th Anniversary Celebration

1959 Highlander Way · New Market, TN 37820 · phone: (865) 933-3443 · fax: (865) 933-3424
e-mail: hrec@highlandercenter.org

75th Anniversary Celebration
Schedule/Program

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Note: Highlander's 75th Anniversary Celebration, held on August 31-September 2, 2007, was an amazing experience. For press coverage of the celeb

For the list of trainers, speakers & performers, click here.
ASL Interpretation available upon request. Please contact roberto at highlandercenter.org.
Childcare will be available on Friday from 9:00 am - 5:30 pm. Children's programming will be available on Saturday from 9:30 am - 6:30 pm and on Sunday from 10:00 am - 5:30 pm. Children under 5 must be accompanied by an adult.

Friday, August 31, 2007
Educational Institutes

8:00 am
Registration Opens

8:30 am - 9:30 am
Breakfast & Welcome

9:30 am - 10:30 am
Opening Plenary

10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Educational Institutes
- Multilingual Capacity Building -
- Communications for Change -
- Participatory Research -
- Popular Education
- Cultural Organizing -
(Green Tent)

Organizations/Institutions
Grassroots Organization
Individuals
Students/Community

$75
$50
$35
$20

Click here for more information
Click here for the institute schedule
Click here to register for the institutes

Friday, August 31, 2007
Welcome Reception & Dance

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Welcome Reception & Dance
Laurel Theater
Knoxville

Saturday, September 1, 2007
Plenary & Workshops

Click here for a full schedule of Saturday's activities

8:00 am
Registration Opens

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Breakfast & Welcome

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Opening Plenary
White Tent
Click here for information
about the plenary speakers

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
- SNCC/SSOC Reunion -
- Seeds of Fire Reunion -
- INDELI Reunion -
- Social Justice Theater Conversation -

12:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Social Justice Film Festival
Click here for the films to be shown

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Workshops
- Workers' Rights in Today's South -
- Racial Justice & the Gulf -
- Stories of LGBTQ Organizers-
- Latin American Movements -

Performances
- Public Outcry -
- Labor Heritage/Rockin' Solidarity Chorus -

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshops
- Intergenerational Organizing -
- Immigration -
- Environmental Justice -
- Faith-Based Organizing -
- Highlander Heritage & Labor Theater -

7:00 pm
Fire & Song Circle; Highlander

Saturday, September 1, 2007
75th Anniversary Benefit Concert

8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Highlander 75th Anniversary
Benefit Concert

Featuring
ANI DIFRANCO
- with -
Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon
Baldemar Velasquez & the Aguila Negra Band
The SNCC Freedom Singers

Bijou Theater; Knoxville
Ticket Prices $25 / $50 / $75
Tickets on Sale - June 8, 2007

Click here more information about the concert
& how to order tickets.

Sunday, September 2, 2007
Cultural Celebration

Click here for a full schedule of Sunday's activities

8:30 - 9:30 am
Interfaith Service

9:00 am
Registration Opens

9:00 am - 1:00 pm
INDELI Reunion

10:00 am - 11:30 am
Special Conversatin with Highlander Directors

11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Lunch

11:30 am - 5:00 pm
Cultural Performances

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Strategies for Cultural Organizing and Movement Building

2:00 PM
Special Tribute to the 40th Anniversary of the We Shall Overcome Fund

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Social Justice Film Festival
Click here for the films to be shown

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Be a Cultural Worker

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75th Anniversary Celebration Schedule/Program

75th Anniversary Celebration
Schedule/Program