Public Events --
Brownbag Lectures: The Emancipation Music Arts & Poetry Project
- Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
- Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Presented by MarK McKnight, University of Illinois
Mapping the stories of our ancestors with music, arts & poetry
The mission of the Emancipation MAP Project is to honor persons who were enslaved in the United States by promoting their identification and history, and their artistic emancipation through original music, arts and poetry. The Project also seeks to promote a greater understanding of slave songs through musical research, and by recreating the music in its original style and also in modern versions of the songs in contemporary styles. EMAP hopes to create a slave census (database) that can be used along with the U.S. Census.
One of our Brownbag Lectures
Weekly lectures held at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Lectures are usually held during lunchtime on Wednesday. The RCC is located at 1011 E. Ash Street in Springfield. Access to the building is from 10 ½ Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. For more information, please call 217-785-0037. Brown Bag Lectures are free and open to the public.
Also, if you want to be informed of upcoming lectures by email, you can sign up for the brownbag announcement list.
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