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Outdoor Festival of Arts in Historic EatonvilleFriday-Sunday,
February 1-3
Admission: 17 & Under-FreeAdult Admission at the gate,
Saturday & Sunday: $15 each day
Cash only, please
Presented by the Assocation toPreserve the Eatonville Community,
Inc. (P.E.C.) • Eatonville, Florida
30th Annual
Zora Neale HurstonTM Festival of the Arts and Humanities
Saturday, January 26 – Sunday, February 3, 2019
Artwork by Jason Crawford
2019 Official Guide
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What’s Inside?
16 FESTIVAL PRESENTERS
30 LOCATOR MAP
32 HEADLINE PERFORMERS
26 PROGRAM SCHEDULE • Global Conversations Conferences•
HBCU/HBTSA Summit• ZORA! Festival Hosts Collegium for African
American
Research (CAAR) Conferences
52 SPONSORS & COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS
OFFICIAL GUIDE CREDITSEditor: N. Y. NathiriCompiled by
Christopher PeaceDesign: Rupert Deleveaux / Wendy VandenbrockMap
Design: Trent Tomengo
57 P.E.C. STAFF N.Y. Nathiri, Executive DirectorProf. Lonnie
Graham, Resident CuratorEric Studstill, Museum & Operations
AssistantRajkumarie Bergalowski, Accounting Excellence Without
Excuse (E-WE)Community Computer Lab & Learning Center*
* Major funding provided by Orange County Citizens’ Commission
for ChildrenCopyright 2019 The Association to Preserve the
Eatonville Community, Inc. Use of content herein must be
acknowledged as property of the organization
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Message from P.E.C. President
January 26, 2019
Greetings to All Who Have Traveled from Near or Far,
On behalf the the entire family here at the Association to
Preserve the Eatonville Community, I extend a warm welcome to you
to the 30th Annual Zora Neale Hurston™ Festival of the Arts and
Humanities (ZORA!™ Festival)!
For this special milestone year, our organization has “gone back
to the basics,” doing all that we can to uphold, in the finest
fashion, the Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston. As board president, I am
particularly proud of our K-12 programs. Executive director, N. Y.
Nathiri and her team, in conjunction with a host of collaborative
partners, have worked tirelessly to bring forward for students
strong literature-based offerings, STEM programs, as well as, for
the first time, a performance schedule where the kids will be the
stars on the Center Stage on “Education,Day,” Friday, February 1.
And, as always, the kids have free admission all three days of the
Outdoor Festival of the Arts.
As I wish for you a wonderful festival experience during this
“Global Celebration,” I ask that you make a donation to our
organization -- help ensure that future generations will know the
story of Zora Neale Hurston and of her work; will learn about the
historic significance of her hometown, Eatonville; and will be able
to celebrate the cultural contributions which people of African
ancestry have made to the United States and to the world.
God Bless,
Chad McKendrick
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Board of Directors
Joshua Smith-Benson, PharmD.Treasurer
Marie-José Francois, M.D.Immediate Past President
Our Governing Board (Officers)
Our Governing Board (Members)
Tadayuki (Tad) Hara, Ph.D.Vice President
Harietta Finley WhiteSecretary
Ava K. Doppelt, Esq. Alberta W. Godfrey Thomas S.
KornegayReginald B. McGill
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ZORA! Festival National PlannersKnown affectionately as “The
Brain Trust,” this distinguished groupof cultural artists
and scholars is responsible for the award-winning stature of
ZORA! Festival.
N.Y. Nathiri, Chair, Executive Director, Association to Preserve
the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.) Anne V. Adams, Ph.D., SUNY
Cortland/Cornell University, Ithaca Julian C. Chambliss, Ph.D.,
Michigan State University, Lansing Deidre Helen Crumbley, Ph.D.,
Professor Emerita, North Carolina State University, Raleigh José B.
Fernández, Ph.D., (Retired), University of Central Florida, Orlando
Mayor Johnny Ford, President, Historic Black Towns and Settlements
Alliance, Inc., Tuskegee Lois Hurston Gaston, Ph.D., Co-Trustee,
Zora Neale Hurston Trust Lonnie Graham, Pennsylvania State
University, University Park Maryemma Graham, Ph.D., University of
Kansas, Lawrence Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Ph.D., Spellman
College, Atlanta Eleanor Traylor, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Howard
University, Washington, D.C. Stephen Caldwell Wright, Ph.D.,
(Retired), Seminole State College of Florida, Sanford
ZORA! Festival Academics CommitteeThese members serve as the
management for the conference’s
humanities programming and logistics.
Anna Lillios, Ph.D., Department of English, University of
Central Florida, Orlando Julian C. Chambliss, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of English and History, Michigan State University,
Lansing Scot French, Ph.D., Department of History, University of
Central Florida, Orlando Trent Tomengo Professor of Humanities,
Seminole State College of Florida, Sanford Clarissa West-White,
Ph.D., Reference Librarian, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona
Beach
Event Staffing
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Key Persons Management TeamThese members are the “on the ground”
festival leaders.
Consultants: Terri Vismale-Morris, ZORA! Festival Director for
Public Relations & Marketing Rhea Posey, Social Media Kerry
Charles Daise, Coordinator for Vending Carolyn Atkins, Coordinator
for Volunteers Maye St. Julien, Interiors
Executive Staff: Gwen Covington, Administration & Sponsor
Relations Ruford Shepherd, Physical Plant Lester Cunningham, Yards
& Gardens Club of Historic Eatonville Coolidge Hargrett,
Security/Public Safety Liaison Cynthia Haywood, Festival Support
Christopher Peace, Graduate Intern, History of Black Writing
University of Kansas
Volunteer Managers: Davita Bonner, Bethune-Cookman University,
Coordinator for Student Volunteers Robert Boston, Outdoor
Festival—Concert Stage Louise Franklin, Sunday Morning Worship
Service Gracie Mitchell, Hospitality Services Jacqueline Walters,
Representing Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc, Make-and -Take Tent
Maryemma Graham, Ph.D., The Literary Space Joshua Walker, Mike
Felix, and Tiffany Spencer, Black Orlando Tech Sheree Greer and
Slam Anderson, Kitchen Table Literary Arts Center Louissteen
Cummings, Town of Eatonville Residentsn Kevin James Findlay,
“Education Day” Coordinator
Event Staffing
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Letter from Congresswoman
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Letter from Orange County Mayor
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Letter from Mayor of Eatonville
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Letter from Director-General, World Conference of Mayors
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Letter from President of Rollins College
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Letter from the Dean of UCF College of Arts and Humanities
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Letter from President of CAAR
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Monday, January 28
Chef Jen The owner of DaJen Eats Cafe & Creamery, Chef Jen
first established the business in Orlando – the first vegan
restaurant in a gas station. While there she and her team were
selected as best Caribbean restaurant by Orlando Weekly and Orlando
Sentinel. They later relocated to the historic town of Eatonville,
where they continue to spread the joys of a compassionate,
plant-based lifestyle. Chef Jen created Irie Cream, a line of
deliciously dairyfree ice cream – recently listed as one of the Top
50 Desserts in the US, by VegNews Magazine. She came to America
alone at 16, quickly learning in order to continue enjoying certain
luxuries like eating
and living inside, she needed to stop eating out. That started
her love-affair with cooking and food science. She has learned some
great tips and techniques along the way. She’s shared them with
you. Let’s cook together.
Find us at www.DaJenEats.com and on Instagram and Facebook
@DaJenEats.
Festival Presenter
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Tuesday, January 29 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM
Festival Presenters
Grant Cornwell, Ph.D. President of Rollins CollegeGrant Cornell
is nationally recognized for his work in defining liberal learning
in a global environment. He writes regularly about
multi-culturalism, freedom, diversity, and global citizenship. He
holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and biology from St.
Lawrence, and master’s and doctoral degrees in philosophy from the
University of Chicago.
José B. Fernández, Ph.D. A member of the ZORA! Festival National
Planners, Dr. José B. Fernández is Pegasus Professor of History and
Spanish at the University of Central Florida. A former President of
the Florida Historical Society and former Chair of the Florida
Folklife Council, to Study the Potential Creation of the National
Commission of the American Latino. He is immediate past Dean of
UCF’s College of Arts and Humanities.
Zienzi Dillon, Ph.D.With over 30 years solid banking experience
in Africa, including international exposure through work
attachments at the World Bank, Washington D.C.; Federal Reserve
Bank of New York; Bank of England and Standard Bank London, Dr.
Dillon ranks as a financial expert. Recently retired from Barclays
Africa, she currently serves as CEO for Carmel Global Capital and
is also the president Marketing- place Calling International (NCI),
launched in 2008.
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Tuesday, January 29 • 11:45 AM – 1:15 PMLuncheon
Festival Presenters
Ambassador Peter Romero (Retired)Ambassador Peter Romero, now
retired, has spent over 40 years as a globalist practitioner. He
served for twenty-five years as a career diplomat and was honored
to have been chosen as Chief of Mission in El Salvador, Ambassador
in Ecuador and Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere
Affairs at the Department of State. He is the recipient of several
awards for leadership under circumstances of duress. Since his
retirement, he has advised multinational companies on foreign
investments and advises governments on holistic approaches to
security problems. He lectures at Georgetown University’s graduate
School of Foreign
Service, as well as military service schools at Fort Leavenworth
(US Army) and Quantico, VA (Marine Corps headquarters). He is
currently co-producer and co-moderator of the podcast American
Diplomat.
Laura BennettLaura Bennett is a writer and producer for the
podcast American Diplomat. She earned an MFA in film and television
production at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where
she was awarded a merit-based Tisch School of the Arts scholarship.
She has written, directed, produced and edited short films that
have won 11 awards and screened at 35 festivals throughout the
United States, and has also written three feature-length
screenplays. Laura speaks Spanish, French and English and has
traveled in five continents, often solo and working as a volunteer.
In addition to filmmaking, Laura has an MBA from the University of
Maryland’s
Smith School of Business and works as professor and as a
strategy consultant on non-profit and government projects aimed at
promoting the public good.
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Tuesday, January 29 • 1:30 – 2:45 PM
Festival Presenters
Pamela McCauley, Ph.D.A professor of industrial engineering at
the University of Central Florida, College of Engineering &
Computer Science, and a seasoned entrepreneur, Dr. McCauley’s
experience includes leading humans back to research, systems
analysis, and fuzzy modeling. Her previous National Science
Foundation funding has been in her technical areas and in research
projects devoted to enhancing participation of under-represented
minorities and women in engineering education and careers.
Joshua Walker Joshua “TechDez” Walker is a senior cloud engineer
+ diversity advocate who uses commonplace examples with humorous
pop culture storytelling to train, inspire, and relate to everyday
people who have an interest in technology. He has been featured on
PBS’ Nerd Night Spotlight; and is a co-founder of Black Orlando
Tech; and is a frequent keynote speaker for tech education.
Henry (Hank) OkraskiHank Okraski has over fifty years of
experience in simulation and training research, acquisition and
logistic support for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force,
non-DoD agencies and foreign governments. He is recognized
nationally and internationally as an expert in training simulation.
He is a visionary with a record of developing new and innovative
concepts in simulation for military and civilian uses, and he is
active in developing professional certification and academic
programs to foster simulation technology in K-12, community
colleges and universities.
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Wednesday, January 30 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM
Festival Presenters
Mayor Edward JonesEdward R. Jones was sworn in for his second
consecutive term as the 7th mayor of the city of Grambling,
Louisiana, on December 30, 2014. He had previously served eight
years (two terms) on the Grambling City Council and as Mayor Pro
Tempore during his second term. Prior to becoming an elected
official, Mayor Jones spent nine years as a public-school teacher
in California and Louisiana. He later joined the English faculty at
Grambling State University, a position from which he retired after
twenty-five years of service.
Nadia Ahmad, Esq.Nadia B. Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Law
at Barry University School of Law. Professor Ahmad’s research
explores the intersections of energy siting, the environment, and
sustainable development and draws on international investment law
and corporate social responsibility. In 2016, she was recognized by
the Orlando Business Journal as a 40 Under 40 honoree for her
leadership and community involvement. She recently served as
Co-Chair of the ABA Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice’s
Environmental Justice Committee, which was presented with the
2016-2017 ABA Committee Excellence Award.
Dr. Tadayuki (Tad) Hara, Ph.D.Dr. Tadayuki Hara, an associate
professor & senior research fellow at the Dick Pope Sr.
Institute for Tourism Studies, joined the UCF Rosen College of
Hospitality Management in 2005 from School of Hotel Administration
at Cornell University. From 2008-2010, he served as interim
associate dean, and in 2010 was named associate dean of finance and
administration. Before his career in academia, he spent 19 years
working in global wholesale investment banking and foreign
services.
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Wednesday, January 30 • 11:45 AM – 1:15 PMLuncheon
Festival Presenter
Ambassador Harriet Elam-Thomas (Retired)United States diplomat
and university professor who directs the Diplomacy Program under
International and Global Studies at the University of Central
Florida (UCF) in Orlando, Ambassador Thomas served as the United
States Ambassador to Senegal from 2000 – 2002, From 2003 – 2005,
Thomas served as Diplomat-in-Residence at UCF under the auspices of
a national U.S. Department of State program. She was the U.S.
Department of State’s official liaison in Central Florida,
conducting workshops, providing information on careers, connecting
students to internship and scholarship opportunities,
and speaking on policy matters. In her capacity at UCF, Thomas
is shaping a global initiative with education and training for both
students and professionals. Until the fall of 2005, she was a
Senior Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Career Minister.
Previously, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to Senegal
(1999–2002); Acting Deputy Director of the U.S. Information Agency;
Public Affairs Counselor at the American Embassy in Brussels,
Belgium; Cultural Attaché at the American Embassy in Athens,
Greece; and Director of the American Press and Cultural Center in
Istanbul, Turkey. Her numerous awards include The Director
General’s Cup for the Foreign Service (the most prestigious honor
for former foreign service officers), the U.S. Government’s
Superior Honor Award and a Meritorious Honor Award for her work in
connection with wthe first Persian Gulf War. She holds a B.S. in
International Business from Simmons College (Massachusetts) and an
M.A. in Public Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University, as well as four honorary doctorates.
From 2003 – 2006, she served on the Senior Advisory Group of the
United States European Command, which was then headed by General
James Jones. She is the recent author of Diversifying Diplomacy: My
Journey from Roxbury to Dakar. A member of the American Academy of
Diplomacy, she currently is on the board of the Cultural Academy
for Excellence, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and the
Institute for International Education. In addition to English, she
speaks French, Greek and Turkish.
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Wednesday, January 30 • 1:30 – 2:45 PM
The World Conference of Mayors Presenters
This conversation and the breakout session which follows are
being curated by The World Conference of Mayors (WCM).
The World Conference of Mayors, Inc. (WCM), founded and
organized in April 1984, is a non-profit, non-political worldwide
conference, comprised of mayors, former mayors, and other elected
and appointed local public officials.
Her Excellency Arikana Chihombari Quao M.D., African Union
Ambassador to the United States
David Kuan-chou Chien Director-General, Taipei Economics and
Cultural Affairs Office in Miami
Jean Pierre Mbassi, Secretary-GeneralUnited Cities and Local
Governments, Africa
(UCLGA)
Oliver Carabali Banguero, Mayor Canca, Columbia, South
America
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Thursday, January 31 • 8:00 – 12:30 PM
HBCU Summit Presenters
Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Ph.D. Prime Investigator, Project
ManagerDr. Michelle Bachelor Robinson is the Director of the
Comprehensive Writing Program and a professor of African American
Writing and Rhetoric at Spelman College. Her research and teaching
focus on community engagement, historiography, PhotoVoice as a
research methodology, African American rhetoric and literacy,
composition pedagogy and theory, and student and program
assessment. She serves as a community partner for the historic
Black town of Hobson City, Alabama, where she is actively involved
in community research, oral history collection, and community
writing. She also serves as a
university partner, consultant, and board member for the
Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance, Inc. and she is a
member of the ZORA! Festival National Planners.
Carmen Kynard, Ph.D.Dr. Carmen Kynard is associate professor of
English and Gender Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
and associate professor of English, Urban Education, and Critical
Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New
York. She interrogates race, Black feminisms, AfroDigital/African
American cultures and languages, and the politics of schooling with
an emphasis on composition and literacies studies.
Andrea Roberts, Ph.D.Dr. Andrea Roberts is an Assistant
Professor of Urban Planning, Faculty Fellow of the Center for
Heritage Conservation as well as the Institute for Sustainable
Communities at Texas A&M University. Courses she teachings
include Critical Place Studies, Planning History and Theory, and
Neighborhood Revitalization. She is the founder of The Texas
Freedom Colonies Project, a research & social justice
initiative, documenting America’s forgotten Black geographies.
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Thursday, January 31 • 8:00 – 12:30 PM
HBCU Summit Presenters
Sharon Davies , Ph.D. Dr. Sharon Davies is the provost and vice
president of academic affairs at Spelman College. Davies’ career
experiences span both academic and non-academic fields. She joins
Spelman from The Ohio State University where she was vice provost
for Diversity and Inclusion and chief diversity officer. Davies was
also a member of OSU’s Moritz College of Law faculty for 22 years,
serving as the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil
Liberties.
Jerry Ward, Ph.D.A retired Professor of English, Richard Wright
scholar, and literary critic, Dr. Ward lives in New Orleans. He
taught for 32 years at Tougaloo College and 10 years at Dillard
University. He is a recipient of numerous awards and honors. Most
recently, he received the Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award
from the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration. And in 2018, the
College Language Association Daryl Cumber Dance Award for lifetime
achievement.
Aman Nadhiri, Ph.D.Dr. Aman Nadhiri is an Associate Professor in
the Department of Languages and Literature at Johnson C. Smith
University, where he teaches English literature and Arabic. He
earned his doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, where he majored in Medieval Literature and minored in
Arabic. His book, Saracens and Franks in 12th – 15th Century
European and Near Eastern Literature: Perceptions of Self and
Other, explores the ways in which individuals and societies
approach difference.
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Thursday, January 31 • 12:00 – 12:30 PM
HBCU Summit Presenters
Julian C. Chambliss, Ph.D. Dr. Julian C. Chambliss is Professor
of English with a Joint Appointment in History at Michigan State
University. In addition, he is a core participant in the MSU
College of Arts & Letters’ Consortium for Critical Diversity in
a Digital Age Research (CEDAR). His research interests focus on the
race, identity, and power in real and imagined urban spaces. His
recent writing has appeared in Frieze, Rhetoric Review, Boston
Review, Florida Historical Quarterly, Journal of Urban History and
Studies in America. An inter-disciplinary scholar he has designed
museum exhibitions, curated art shows, and created public digital
history projects that trace
community, identity, and power in the American South. In
addition, he has published opinion and commentary in popular forums
such as the Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio (NPR), and
Orlando Sentinel.
David Abraham, Ph.D. Dr. Abraham is a scholar of urban planning
and environmental policy, specializing in sustainability planning
and urban performance measurement. His research interests focus on
developing sustainability strategies for the enhancement of
community planning systems. His research and professional
experience includes food insecurity planning, health and well-being
impacts from the built environment, urban forestry sustainability
strategies, resiliency and revitalization community planning, and
community performance metrics. He also has had experience with
developing consensus building techniques for public
participation/community involvement support for the identification
and delineation of planning objectives.
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Friday, February 1 • 9:30 – 10:45 AM
Festival Presenter
Zora Neale Hurston Arts and Humanites Lecturer
Everett L. Fly, Landscape Architect, FASLA; Architect, NCARB
Certified. Fly is a native and resident, with his wife Rosalinda,
of San Antonio, Texas. He practices as a registered landscape
architect (Texas); and registered architect (Texas). He attended
the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a Bachelor of
Architecture degree (5-year professional) with honors in 1975. In
June of 1977, he became the first Black American to earn the Master
in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate
School of
Design (GSD). In 1995, he was elected a Fellow of the American
Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the second Black American
in the one hundred and fifteen year ASLA history. Mr. Fly taught as
an assistant professor of architecture in the School of
Architecture, University of Texas at Austin (1977 – 1982); a
visiting instructor at the University of California at Berkeley
(1985); Texas A & M University Department of Landscape
Architecture (1986); and Trinity University Department of History
(2014). Mr. Fly has held key roles in various interdisciplinary
planning and design projects around the United States, including
the Texas State Capitol Extension & Preservation (Principal
Land-scape Architect), Austin, Texas; Idlewild, Michigan Cultural
Economic Development Readiness Initiative (team leader/Michigan
Department of History, Arts and Libraries); America By Design
5-part PBS American design film series (advisory panel
member/Guggenheim Productions, w/Spiro Kostof as narrator/National
Endowment for the Arts); National Register Listing of Buffalo, New
York Zoo Gates by African American Architect John Edmonston
Brent/Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor, Buffalo,
New York. Mr. Fly served on the Board of Review for the National
Register of Historic Places, Texas from 1980 – 1986. He served as
the Mayor’s Appointee to the City of San Antonio Board of Historic
and Design Commission from 1988-1994. He served as an elected board
member of the TexasCouncil for the Humanities from 1988-1999 (two
years as board secretary; one year as board vice chair; two years
as board chair). From 1994 – 2001 Mr. Fly served an appointment by
President William Jefferson Clinton to the 34 member President’s
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. In February, 1994 Mr. Fly
chaired the Landscape Architecture, Urban Design & Planning
Jury of the Presidential Design Awards. In 2015 President Barack
Obama awarded Mr. Fly with one of the ten 2014 National Humanities
Medal for his body of work preserving the integrity of
African-American places and landmarks. The National Humanities
Medal is the highest honor that the Federal government can bestow
upon an individual. The San Antonio Power of Preservation
Foundation awarded Mr. Fly its “Champion of Preservation Award” in
the fall of 2018 for his work exposing, preserving and conserving
the city and county wide presence of African American history.
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Friday, February 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
ZORA! Festival Hosts CAAR Conferees
Deborah G. Plant, Ph.D.Deborah G. Plant is an English literature
and Africana Studies scholar and literary critic whose special
interest is the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston. Her books on
Hurston include Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The
Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston; The Inside Light:
New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston, 20 essays on recent
findings and issues in Hurston studies, and Zora Neale Hurston: A
Biography of the Spirit. Plant has been the keynote speaker for
National Endowment for the Arts Big Read programs on Their Eyes
Were Watching God. She has served as a consultant, resource, and
speaker at Fort Pierce’s ZoraFest over several years.
Trudier Harris, Ph.D.Dr. Harris is University Distinguished
Research Professor in English at the University of Alabama and
formerly J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor of English at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author
and/or editor of 25 volumes, including Fiction and Folklore; The
Novels of Toni Morrison (1991); The Power of the Porch: The
Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and
Randall Kenan (1996); The Scary Mason-Dixon Line; African American
Writers and the South (2009); and Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism,
and African American Literature (2014). Having received countless
awards and recognitions, most recently she was named
the 2018 recipient of the Clarence E. Cason Award for Nonfiction
Writing, an honor that she shares with six Pulitzer Prize
winners.
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Friday, February 1 • 2:00 – 3:30 PM
ZORA! Festival Hosts CAAR Conferees
Ruthe Sheffey, Ph.D.Dr. Sheffey received her Bachelor of Arts
degree in English form Morgan (now known as Morgan State
University) in Baltimore; went on to earn a Masters of Arts degree
form Howard University (Washington, D.C.) and her Ph.D. degree from
the University of Pennsylvania. She also engaged in post-doctoral
study at The Johns Hopkins University. Respected as an outstanding
teacher, Dr. Sheffey is a distinguished member of the academy,
having received numerous recognitions for her scholarly work as
well as for her service to the field. As a pioneer of feminist
scholarship in the United States, Dr. Sheffey inspired and guided
the world’s
appreciation for Zora Neale Hurston, and in 1984 established at
Morgan State University the Zora Neale Hurston Society, “a first”
on the campus of any American college or university. Dr. Sheffey is
“A ZORA! Festival Favorite.”
Cheryl Wall, Ph.D.Dr. Wall is Board of Governors Zora Neale
Hurston Professor of English at Rutgers University, where she has
taught thousands of undergraduates and directed a score of
dissertations in the field of African American literary study. Zora
Neale Hurston has been the subject of and inspiration for much of
her scholarship. In each of the nine books she has written or
edited, Hurston’s writing has played a role. Hurston’s novel,
Jonah’s Gourd Vine was the source for the title Changing Our Own
Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women, a
critical anthology edited by Cheryl Wall and published by
Rutgers University Press in 1989. In the novel Amy Crittenden
announces her determination to “change jes ez as many words ez Ah
durn please!” What Amy Crittenden seeks and her husband denies her
is the reciprocal give and take of ideas. The spirit of exchange is
at the heart of the anthology’s conversation. Its contributors
exchange ideas with black women writers, with critics, with
theorists, and with each other. Professor Wall’s latest book, A
Very Short Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance (2016), locates
Hurston’s work in the context of an international black cultural
awakening.
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Festival Presenters
Friday, February • 3:45 – 5:00 PM
Irina Morozova, Ph.D.As a professor of Comparative Studies,
Irina Morozova is a Doctor Hab. of Philology, a Professor,
Professor of Comparative Studies of Literature Department at the
Russian State University for the Humanities. After her
post-graduated study in Leningrad, she received a Fulbright
Research opportunity at the University of Central Florida in 2001.
She authored more than 100 articles and one book The Old South in
the Women Prose of the XIXth Century. Dr. Morozova is interested in
American women literature, American South culture and literature,
comparative studies, African American literature, and
imagology.
Marumi Nishigauchi, ProfessorMarumi Nishigauchi has been a
professor at the Nagano College of Nursing since 2004 and a
president of Multi-Ethnic Studies Association of Japan since 2015.
Her recent main works are The Voices of Clothing and Fashion in
American Literature (2017; anthology chief editor); Women’s
Messages in Disguise (2017), Magnolia Flower; Selected Short
Stories of Zora Neale Hurston (2016; co-translator); Irish Colleens
in America (2016), Julia Ward Howe and ‘The Battle Hymn of Republic
(2016); Traveling Opera Companies as a Reflection of a Country and
an Era (2015); The Frontiers in Ethnic Studies (2014; anthology
co-editor), and Reading the Short Stories of Zora Neale Hurston
(2014).
Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Ph.D.Dr. Patterson is associate
professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, and History at
Vanderbilt University. She has published Zora Neale Hurston and a
History of Southern Life (2005), a study of early 20th century
black communities set within the history of all-Black towns, maroon
societies, and nationalist traditions. She is also Associate Editor
of the 16-volume Black Women in United States History. Since 2002,
she has served as a senior editor of Palimpsest; A Journal on
Women, Gender, and the Black International.
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Saturday, February 2
Headline Performers at the Outdoor Festival of The Arts
Glenn JonesThere is no stopping Grammy Nominated Producer and
Artist GLENN JONES. With his second new single, “You & Me”, a
forthcoming CD Love By Design, an upcoming tour, and his
non-profit, The Love Jones Foundation, Jones is a music force to be
reckoned with. Marketing, imaging and sleek packaging aside, GLENN
JONES clearly understands the dynamics of creating a solid vocal
performance and has consistently delivered. “I’ve been in the game
for over 30 years, and I am blessed to still be doing my thing. I
owe it all to the creator. My mother told me two things that I’ll
never forget, and that is, my talent would make room for me, and
that my life is in God’s hands, and I believe that.” Jones is
also the founder of his non-profit, The Love Jones Foundation
(LJF), established in memory of his mother-Ella Lee Jones. The
foundation provides educational programs to youth and music therapy
to the elderly. Promotional materials provided by the
performer.
Shirley Murdock Seasoned singer/songwriter/actor Shirley
Murdock, has been on an amazing journey. In the early `80s, she
aimed for a gospel career before the late great Roger Troutman,
funk bandleader for the group Zapp discovered her and landed her a
record deal with Elektra Records, where she recorded her first
Certified Gold cd, as well as several Top 10 R&B hits such like
As We Lay, Go On Without You, Husband and In Your Eyes. She not
only performed on, but co-wrote the Zapp R&B hit single,
Computer Love. Shirley stands along side of her husband of 30
years, Rev. Dale Anthony DeGroat, Assistant Pastor of Second
Missionary Baptist Church,
Springfield, Ohio and Senior Pastor of Praying4You Ministries,
an online and teleconference church without walls in which she is
an associate minister. They are the proud parents of one son, Devin
Alexander DeGroat. Shirley not only enjoys the special connection
between herself and her fans on and off stage, but she also enjoys
encouraging young people to dream big dreams and serving her
community. All of Shirley’s music, along with her latest EP: Good
Man/The Little Things/ Call Me, are available at her product table,
iTunes, Amazon and retail stores everywhere.
Promotional materials provided by the performer.
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Sunday, February 3
Headline Performers at the Outdoor Festival of The Arts
Miles JayeBold, dynamic, passionate; vocalist/jazz violinist
Miles Jaye (born Miles Jaye Davis) is one of a kind. Jaye began his
professional music career touring the great jazz festivals of
Europe–Montreaux, North Sea, Nice (France) and Capitol (London) -
featured on vocals, electric violin, flute and keys with guitarist
Eric Gale, and vocalists Phyllis Hyman and Jon Lucien. After a
two-year world-tour as lead singing Village People “Cop” his solo
career was launched on Island Records as a Teddy Pendergrass
protege. The MILES, IRRESISTIBLE and STRONG - CD’s yielded the
Billboard chart topping singles, “Let’s Start Love Over”
(w/Roy Ayers), “Heaven,” “Objective” (w/ Grover Washington, Jr.)
and the classic hit “I’ve Been A Fool For You.” Miles Jaye
epitomizes artistic brilliance. He is an author and visual artist
and is as passionate on his red violin as he is with his soulful
voice and with over 21 CD’s to his credit; the most recent being
GOD’S CREATION, ATTENERGY and 360. Promotional materials provided
by the performer.
The Motown “Tribute” Review Show“Direct from Las Vegas,” the
Show will spotlight • Marvin Gaye • Gladys Knight & Pips •
Smokey Robinson & Miracles • Diana Ross & Supremes • The
Temptations
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ZORA! Festival 2019
Literary Icon & ZORA! Festival Family Member
Alice WalkerAlice Walker has been defined as one of the key
international writers’ of the 20th century. Walker made history as
the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for
Literature as well as the National Book Award in 1983 for her novel
“The Color Purple,” one of the few literary books to capture the
popular imagination and leave a permanent imprint. The
award-winning novel served as the inspiration for Steven
Spielberg’s 1985 film and was adapted for the stage, opening at New
York City’s Broadway
Theatre in 2005, and capturing a Tony Award for best leading
actress in a musical in 2006. An internationally celebrated author,
poet and activist, Walker’s books include seven novels, four
collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of
essays and poetry. Walker has written many additional best sellers;
among them, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), which detailed the
devastating effects of female genital mutilation and led to the
1993 documentary Warrior Marks, a collaboration with the
British-Indian filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, with Walker as executive
producer. Walker’s work has been translated into more than
two-dozen languages, and her books have sold more than fifteen
million copies. Back in 2015, during what she calls “a time of
great sadness and feelings of loss and despair” stemming from the
wrongs occurring all over the world, Alice Walker began writing a
series of poems. Inspired by those past and present who have stood
up to speak out against injustice, TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE
HEART: New Poems offers nearly seventy timely works of passionate
and powerful poetry– presented in both English and Spanish– that
bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life
well-lived. The poems reflect Walker’s mission to “Talk [to them]
about how that arrow many feel in their hearts is not theirs alone.
Remind them it is worthwhile to train to learn how to remove it.”
Often honoring actual people and events personally meaningful to
Walker, the poems offer her insightful musings about both an
out-ofcontrol world and those who stand up for the voiceless and
call out social and political hypocrisies. From poems sharing
painful self-inquiry, to celebrating the simple beauty of baking
frittatas, TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART offers a window into
Walker’s magical, at times difficult, and liberating world of
activism, love, hope, and above all, gratitude. Walker has served
as jurist, 2010 and 2012, for two sessions of The Russell Tribunal
on Palestine – Cape Town, South Africa, and New York, NYC. Walker
writes a regular blog on her author’s website:
www.alicewalkersgardens.com
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ZORA! Festival 2019
Theme:
A Global CelebrationProgram Schedule(Subject to change)
Day 1- Saturday, Janary 26 • 6:00 - 7:15 PMFree and open to the
public
Companion ExhibitionsZora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine
Arts
(The Hurston™) and Art & History Museums –
MaitlandExhibition Title: Reflections of the ZORA! Festival 1990 –
2018
Curator: Maye St. JulienLocation: The Hurston
227 East Kennedy Boulevard in Eatonville 32751
Art & History Museums – Maitland231 Packwood Avenue
Curator: Scot French, Ph.D., University of Central Floriday
Day 2- Sunday, January 27 • 4:00 - 5:30 PMFree and open to the
public
The Virtual Tour of the Historic Robert Hungerford Industrial
and Normal School, “Conducted by Zora Neale Hurston as a middle
school student”
Focus: To provide background on the project’s concept,
development, and implementation
Presentations by Collaborative Partners: Orange County Public
Schools
Valencia College – West CampusUniversity of Central Florida,
College of Medicine
Orlando Science Center & the National Center for
SimulationLocation: Orange Technical College
Mid Florida Campus 2900 West Oak Ridge Road – Building 1600 –
2nd Floor
Orlando 32809
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Day 3Monday, January 28 • 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Registration Required • Click here to Purchase Tickets
Zora’s Cosmos Mobile TourSpecial Garden-to-Table Lunch at DaJen
Eats Cafe & Creamery in Eatonville
Presenter: Chef Jen
Focus: Tour includes stops at The Hurston Museum, the Gardens of
the Yards & Gardens Club of Historic Eatonville, the Art &
History Museums - Maitland; and in Winter Park,
a windshield tour of the Hannibal Square Neighborhood
8:00 AM Registration & Check-in:The Hurston227 East Kennedy
Boulevard in Eatonville 32751
9:15 AM Depart for St. Lawrence African Methodist Episcopal
Church549 East Kennedy Boulevard
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Gardens Tour/Demonstration by Chef
Jen/Private lunch at DaJen Eats323 East Kennedy Boulevard, Suite
F
12:45 – 1:45 PM Screening of Waking Up White, a film by Jason
Gregory Graduate student, University of Central Florida
2:45 PM Depart for windshield tour of Hannibal Square
Neighborhood
3:45 PM Wrap-up @ The Hurston
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Day 4 & 5Tuesday, January 29 – Wednesday January 30
Global Conversations Round Tables A Partnership between the
Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.)
and Rollins College
Curated by: N.Y. Nathiri, Executive Director with assistance by
the ZORA! Festival Academics Committee Members:
Anna Lillios, Ph.D., Department of English, University of
Central Florida, OrlandoJulian C. Chambliss, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of English and History, Michigan State University,
LansingScot French, Ph.D., Department of History, University of
Central Florida, OrlandoTrent Tomengo Professor of Humanities,
Seminole State College of Florida, SanfordClarissa West-White,
Ph.D., Reference Librarian, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona
Beach
Global Conversations co-ordinated by: Matthew Nichter, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology; Coordinator, Africa
& African-American Studies, with assistance from Bailey Clark,
Associate Director, Center for Leadership & Community
Engagement; and Emmy Torres, Rollins ‘18
All activities on Tuesday and Wednesday take place on the campus
of Rollins College
Conference Background: This conference is a third in a series of
conversations. In recognition of the 130th anniversary of the
Incorporation of Historic Eatonville (August 15, 1887), known
popularly as “the oldest incorporated African American municipality
in the United States,” ZORA! Festival 2017 organized the
“Communities Conference: Civic Conversations Concerning 21st
Century American Life in Communities of Color” to explore issues
and concerns which occur, over and over, in communities of color
and to determine ways of improving the quality of life for those
persons who reside in them. The response was so positive that the
Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, after consulting
with a number of constituencies, determined to continue the
conversations.
Summary: This 2-day conference will explore the question of
liberal arts, in a global context, or precisely, how education in a
liberal arts ethos, can address present challenges facing
democracy. Foci will also include information and technology
transfer, economic empowerment and collaboration on a global
stage.
Conference Structure: This conference will convene 4 round
tables, each in a 75-minute plenary session followed by a 1-hour
breakout session with more in-depth conversations.
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Day 4 & 5Tuesday, January 29 — Wednesday January 30
Registration Required • Click here to Purchase Tickets
Tuesday, January 29
Global Conversations8:00 – 8:45 AM
Breakfast refreshments
9:00 – 10:15 AM
Round Table #1Education for a Global Era: The Role of
Humanities
Overarching Questions:What is the role of humanities
(literature, poetry, history, religious studies, philosophy,
etc.)
in an education for global citizenship? What does the study of
the humanities bring to global understanding? To the viability of
global civil society? To the vitality of democracy?
ParticipantsGrant Cornwell, PhD.
Zienzi Dillon, PhD.José B. Fernández, PhD.
10:30 – 11:30 AM Breakout Session to Invited Participants
Breakout PanelistsNancy Chick, Ph.D., Director, Endeavor
Foundation Center for Faculty Development,
Rollins College
Patrick O. Odoyo, MPSA, Staff Director, Social Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Hub
Scott Hewit, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Teacher
Education at Rollins College
11:4 AM – 1:15 PMLuncheon (Plated buffet)
Location: Patio behind the Cornell Fine Arts Museum (CFAM)
Conversation with Ambassador Peter Romero (Retired) conducted by
Laura Bennett, writer and producer of the Podcast, American
Diplomat
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Round Table #2
Technology & Information TransferOverarching Concepts:
The Information and Technology Transfer Round Table will engage,
first, with the ascent of information and technology as predominant
forces in modern-day society and, second, with the following
questions: Is there a real-world role for the liberal arts and
humanities as technology continues to progress? Are there any
lessons to be learned from other periods
since the Industrial Revolution when society was faced epochal
changes?
Participants:Pamela McCauley, Ph.D.
Henry (Hank) OkraskiJoshua Walker
7:00 – 8:30 PM Reception at Residence of Rollins College
President
Wednesday, January 30 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM
Round Table #3 Economic Empowerment on the World Stage
Participants:Mayor Ed Jones - Grambling, LA
Tadayuki (Tad) Hara, Ph.D.Nadia Ahmad, Esq.
Underlying concept:In the spirit of Zora Neale Hurston —
“Real-world” applications of culture and heritage
and her commitment to have knowledge NOT be confined to the
“dusty shelves of libraries,” this round table seeks to engage the
conversationalists based on their experiences
with economic empowerment
Topics participants will explore:Mayor Jones: Economic
empowerment initiatives which are taking place in Grambling, LA
Dr. Hara: Research-based findings quantifying the economic
impact of cultural heritage tourism within specific community
settings
Prof. Ahmad: Research-based findings which reveal commonalities
in development issues, whether the setting is the city of Apopka
(Florida) or the country of Afghanistan.
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10:30 – 11:30 AM Breakout Session to Invited Participants
Breakout Session Facilitators:Dan Chong, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor of Political Science, Rollins CollegeCaroline Cheong,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, UCF
Emmanuel Kodzi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of International
Business, Rollins College
11:45 AM – 1:15 PMLuncheon (Plated buffet)
Ambassador Harriet Elam-Thomas (Retired), Guest SpeakerLocation:
Patio behind the Cornell Fine Arts Museum (CFAM)
Round Table #4 Collaboration On The World Stage
The World Conference of Mayors, Inc. (WCM), founded and
organized in April 1984, is a non-profit, non-political worldwide
conference, comprised of mayors, former mayors,
and other elected and appointed local public officials.
1:30 - 2:45 PM Participants
Her Excellency Arikana Chihombari Quao, M.D., African Union
Ambassador to the United States
Jean Pierre Mbassi, Secretary-General, United Cities and Local
Governments,
Africa (UCLGA)
David Kuan-chou Chien, Director-General, Taipei
Economics and Cultural Affairs Office in Miami
Oliver Carabali Banguero, Mayor Canca, Columbia, South
America
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Day 6Thursday, January 31 • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PMRegistration
Required • Click here to Purchase Tickets
Students as Change Agents: The Nexus between Historically Black
Colleges and Universities (HBCU & Historic Black Towns and
Settlements (HBTS
Curated by Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Ph.D., Spelman College;
ZORA! Festival National Planner; Vice President for Educational
Matters,
Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance (HBTSA)
Location: Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church412 East Kennedy
Boulevard in Eatonville 32751
Background: The Spelman College HBCU/HBTSA Summit pilots
collaborations between 6 historically Black institutions of higher
learning and 6 historically Black communities in close proximity.
The “town and gown” partnerships will be the following: the town of
Tuskegee, AL with Tuskegee University; the town of Grambling, LA
with Grambling State University; the town of Mound Bayou, MS with
Mississippi Valley State University; the town of Hobson City, AL
and Spelman College; the town of Prairie View and Prairie View
A&M University; the community of Independence Heights in
Houston, TX and Texas Southern University. The Summit will provide
an opportunity for 36 students, 6 from each institution, selected
for their scholarship and leadership to spend 4 days in the
historic town of Eatonville, FL, the 2nd oldest Black municipality
in the United States and home of anthropologist, folklorist, and
author Zora Neale Hurston. The gathering will provide focused
orientation for the cultural phenomenon of the development of Black
towns and settlements and the institutions of higher learning that
emerge from them. This educational experience will orient the
students toward the context of community engagement and service
learning in an effort to recruit a new gen-eration of activists and
preservationists for historically cultural spaces.
8:00 AM Greetings and Purpose Mayor Johnny Ford, President of
HBTSAMayor Eddie Cole, EatonvilleMs. Tanya Debose, Independence
Heights, HBTSA VPMichelle Bachelor Robinson, Ph.D., Spelman College
and HBTSA VP
8:30 AM Andrea Roberts, Ph.D., Texas A&M UniversityLecture
on the Historical Phenomenon of Historic Black Towns and
Settlements and the Institutions of Higher Learning that Develop
from the Communities
9:15 AM Carmen Kynard, Ph.D., John Jay College, CUNY The Legacy
of Student Activism on HBCU Campuses
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10:30 AM Sharon Davies, Ph.D., Spelman CollegeJerry Ward,
Dillard University and Tougaloo College (Retired)Aman Nadhiri,
Johnson C. University Panel: The Unique Experience of an HBCU
Education
11:45 AM Julien C. Chambliss, Ph.D., Michigan State
UniversityBlack Digital Humanities and Digital Recovery
12:30 – 2:30 PAM Lunch
Introduction of Featured Speaker by Linda Haithcox
TaylorExecutive Director, National Policy Alliance (NPA)
Featured Speaker: Dr. Lezlli Baskerville, Esq. President and
CEONational Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher
Education
(NAFEO)
Introduction of Featured SpeakerMs. Antionett MalevauexCasey
Family Foundation
Speaker: Dr. William Bell, Major Conference Sponsor and
President & CEO, Casey Family Foundation
Introduction of Featured SpeakerThe Honorable Darlene Young,
Board Chair Blacks In Government (BIG)
Featured Speaker: Dr. Doris P. Sartor, President Blacks in
Government (BIG)
3:00 – 5:00 PM Faculty, Students, and Community Leaders work in
small groups to learn the history of the partner community and plan
logistics for community engagement projects.
5:00 – 6:00 PM Pizza and Salad Dinner
7:30 – 8:45 PM Northwest Tap Connection Youth dance ensemble
from Seattle, Washington
Location: Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts – Alexis
& Jim Pugh Theater445 South Magnolia Avenue – Orlando 32801
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Day 7Friday, February 1 • 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
This Day, know as “Education Day,” is Divided into 3 Concurrent
ProgramsProgram 1: ZORA! Festival Hosts CAAR Conferees
Registration Required • Click here to Purchase Tickets Program
2: Outdoor Festival of the ArtsProgram 3: 6th ZORA! STEM Conference
of Middle School Students
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Concurrent Program #1ZORA! Festival Hosts
Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Conferees in
Historic Eatonville
Schedule for Concurrent Program #1All events for Concurrent
Program #1 take place at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church – 412
East Kennedy Boulevard
8:00 – 9:00 AM “Fish & Grits” Breakfast Introduction of Zora
Neale Hurston Arts and Humanities Lecturer by Lois Hurston Gaston,
Ph.D., Co-Trustee, Zora Neale Hurston Trust
9:30 – 10:45 AM Lecturer Everett L. Fly, Landscape Architect,
FASLA; Architect, NCARB Certified; 2014 National Humanities
Medalist
11:00 – 12:15 PM Deborah Plant, Ph.D., “On Barracoon” in
Conversation with Deborah Plant, Ph.D. Interviewed by Claire Hynes,
Ph.D., Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing, University of
East Anglia
12:30 – 1:45 PM Lunch On Your Own Please visit the International
Food Court at Zora’s Village
2:00 – 3:30 PM “On Zora Neale Hurston” – The Reunion Panel,”
Ruthe Sheffey, Ph.D., Trudier Harris, Ph.D., and Cheryl Wall
2:00 – 3:30 PM Moderator: N.Y. Nathiri, Executive Director,
P.E.C.
3:45 – 5:00 PM “On Zora Neale Hurston – An International
Perspective” Irina Morozova, Ph.D., Prof. Marumi Nishigauchi and
Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Ph.D.
Moderator: Anna Lillios, Ph.D., Department of English University
of Central Florida
5:30 PM Depart for Welcoming Reception in honor of 30th Annual
ZORA! Festival, 13th Biennial CAAR Conference, the Annual Meeting
of the World Conference of Mayors, and the Historic Black Towns and
Settlements Alliance (HBTSA) Board Meeting Orlando City Hall, 400
S. Orange Avenue in Orlando 3280
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Day 7Friday, February 1 • 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Concurrent Program #2
ZORA! — Outdoor Festival of the Arts in Historic Eatonville
Location: In the Community Park, next to the Library & Along
E. Kennedy Boulevard
Free & Open to the Public
Outdoor Festival Features
Orange County Library System-Sponsored Event in The Life Center
ChurchLocation: 63 East Kennedy Boulevard – Eatonville 32751
10:00 AM and 12:30 PMKekla Magoon on Shadow of Sherwood: A Robyn
Hoodlum Adventure
Fine Arts/Master Crafts Booths
The Hurston Museum
Center Stage Performances byStudents
International Marketplace
Make-And-Take-Tent
Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion
Black Orlando Tech (BOT) Organized activities in the Excellence
Without Excuse (E-WE)
Community Computer Arts Lab & in the “STEM Park” Location:
Immediately to the east of the E-WE Lab
“News You Can Use” Booths
International Food Court
9:00 – 10:00 AM and 10:30 – 11:30 AM Creative Writing Workshop
for Middle & High School Students,
organized by the Kitchen Table Literary Arts CentersLocation:
Council Chambers in Eatonville Town Hall – 307 East Kennedy
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Day 7Friday, February 1
8:00 AM – 3:00 PMConcurrent Program #3
Workshop Schedule ZORA! for STEM Conference for Middle School
Students
Adventures in Medicine UCF College of Medicine An educational
activity will expose middle and high school students to medical
science and the physician-training process. The students will learn
about the educational path and content in the four years of medical
school and apply that knowledge in hands-on activities.
Space Exploration and Programing/CodingOrlando Science Center
Students will immerse themselves in the exciting world of science
technology! Take a tour through our solar system and beyond in our
Mobile Planetarium, put your coding abilities to the test by
completing a series of Ozobot challenges, and program a Makey Makey
to turn your friends into a remote control!
Music in STEMValencia College Music is everywhere but so is
science. There is a great deal of physics embedded in music and we
will discuss and demonstrate some of it.
Basic CPROrange Technical College The students will learn Basic
First Aid techniques including bandaging, choking procedures, and
nosebleed care. In addition to learning Hands Only CPR with the
mannequins during the training sessions.
Medical SimulationSIMETRI, Inc. A state-of-the-art special
effects techniques and engineering with innovative medical training
technologies, to create highly realistic human forms used for
immersive medical training experiences. These simulations provide
first responders and military medical personnel the opportunity to
train in a safe and learner-friendly environment, developing the
skills so critical to survival in the field.
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Outdoor Festival of the Arts
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Concurrent Program #36th Annual ZORA!™ STEM Conference for
Middle School Students
Presented by the Association to Preserve the Eatonville
Communityin Collaboration with
Orange County Public Schools, Valencia College – West Campus
University of Central Florida, College of Medicine
Orlando Science Center & the National Center for
Simulation
Hosted by Orange Technical College – Mid Florida Campus
Mid Florida Campus – Building 1600
Summary: Target audience: Students attending Title I middle
schools as it is this student population which is historically
under-represented in the STEM Fields
Location: Orange Technical College, Mid Florida Campus2900 W.
Oak Ridge Road – Buidling 1600
Orlando, FL 32801
Schedule:
8:00 – 8:15 AM Welcome
8:20 – 11:20 AM Morning Workshops
11:30 – 12:20 AM Lunch and Activities
12:30 – 2:20 AM Afternoon Workshops
2:30 – 2:45 AM Survey
2:45 – 3:00 PM Wrap-Up and Departure
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Saturday, February 2 • 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM Outdoor Festival of the
Arts in Historic Eatonville
Location: In the community park, next to the library and along
east Kennedy Boulevard
Children & Youth, K - 12, Free Middle & High school
students – Current, school i.d. required
Purchase General Admission, Adult (Until February 1) $10.00 /
$15 at the gate
Purchase V.I.P. Admission: Includes up-front seating at the
Center Stage, food, 2 adult beverages
Until February 1, $65 / $75 at the gate
Outdoor Festival Features
Fine Arts/Master Crafts Booths
International Marketplace
Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion
Black Orlando Tech (BOT) Organized activities in the Excellence
Without Excuse (E-WE)
Community Computer Arts Lab & in the “STEM Park” Location:
Immediately to the east of the E-WE Lab
Centerstage Headlinee Glenn Jones
Make-And-Take-Tent
7:30 – 9:30 PMClosing Banquet — CAAR & ZORA! Festival
2019
Ticketed Event Featuring Alice Walker (Purchase
Tickets)University of Central Florida, Pegasus Ballroom
Location: 4000 Central Florida Parkway – Orlando 32816
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Program Schedule Continued
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Day 9Sunday February 3 • 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
8:30 – 9:45 AMTraditional Sunday Morning Worship Service
(Ecumenical)
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ZORA! – Outdoor Festival of the Arts in
Historic Eatonville
Location: In the Community Park, next to the Library & Along
E. Kennedy Boulevard
Children & Youth, K - 12, Free Middle & High school
students – Current, school i.d. required
General admission, Adult (Until February 1) $10.00 / $15 at the
gate
V.I.P. Admission: Includes up-front seating at the Center Stage,
food, 2 adult beveragesUntil February 1, $65 / $75 at the gate
Outdoor Festival Features
Fine Arts/Master Crafts Booths
The Hurston Museum
International Marketplace
Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion
“News You Can Use” Booths
International Food Court
Program Schedule Continued
Sunday Highlights
1:00 – 2:30 PM Alice Walker Book Signing Location: The ZORA!
Store 1:30 – 2:30 PM Gospel Explosion Location: Center Stage in the
Park 3:00 – 4:00 PM In Conversation with Alice Walker Location:
Eatonville Town Hall
3:30 PM Headliner with Miles Jaye Location: Center Stage
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ZORA! Festival 2019 is funded in part by
Orange County Governmentthrough the
Arts & Cultural Affairs Program
Presenting Sponsor
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Community Partners
Marketing Support
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Collaborative Partners
Josephine Fulcher AndersonVal Demings for Congress
Jose B. FernandezWinnie Hurston
Winfred Chad McKendrickJacinta Mathis, Esq.
Harietta Finley WhiteBickley Wilson
Zora Neale Hurston Trust
Deidre H. CrumbleyMarie-Jose Francois, M.D.
Samuel B. IngsThomas S. Kornegay
Rod LoveReginald B. McGill
Alzo J. ReddickJoshua Smith-Benson, PharmD.
Additional Support
Festival Patrons
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Collaborative Partners
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ELECTED OFFICIALSEdward “Eddie” Cole, MayorRodney Daniels, Vice
MayorMarilyn Davis-Sconions, Councilwoman Taurus Mack,
CouncilmanTheodore Washington, Council
Administrative Staff & Town EmployeesCathlene Williams, Town
ClerkVeronica Smith, Executive Assistant
Katrina Gibson – Finance DirectorSTAFFHerta WrightElaine
ChuaKarin Dunn – Public Works Director
STAFFDamaris Adams, Administrative AssistantJuashebia Smith –
Utility Billing ClerkSydney SilasDominique TaylorJesse PughMark
Haynes
Joseph Jenkins – Deputy Chief of PoliceSTAFFFrances Wellenbusher
– Administrative Assistant to Chief of PoliceMarcedus Collins –
Records & Evidence ClerkFelicita Hernandez – LieutenantSheldon
Brown
DETECTIVE Roy SmithCommunity & Youth Services
Coordinator
STAFFPerisha JohnsonAdrianna JohnsonEmmitt TompkinsSheldon
BrownJames BendersonCRA Director/Planner
STAFFJasyme Reese – Neighborhood CoordinatorNatalie Washington –
Code Enforcement Officer
Town of Eatonville
CORPORALS OFFICERSFletcher BooneJesenia DiggsOmar DelgadoRobert
JonesLamar Payne Broderick LampkinJohn Simone Michelle Rozefort
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Notes
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For more information on Zora Neale Hurston and the Festival
that bears her name and to book a tour, please call
407-647-3307
and ask for Tour Manager.Monday – Friday, 9:00AM – 4:00PM
Saturday, 11:00AM – 1:00PM Closed Sundays & Holiday
Weekends
www.PreserveEatonville.org
EATONVILLE Your Group Tour Destination
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