Jubilee! A Tribute to Guy and Candie Carawan (screening)

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The Carawans’ work will be celebrated at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 10, at East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St., in a program presented by the Knox County Public Library’s Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound. The program will include a photo exhibit featuring Robert Yellin’s photographs for the Carawan’s 1966 book “Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?”; music performed by the Carawan’s son, Evan and music friends Nancy Brennan Strange, Dan Gammon, Steve Horton, and George Reynolds; and videos with rare footage of the Carawans and their projects and a screening of “The Telling Takes Me Home,” a documentary on growing up in the family by the couple’s daughter, Heather Carawan. Admission is free. (Excerpted from Knoxville News Sentinel article by Wayne Bledsoe.)

Documentary Studies Course at Pierce College

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Heather Carawan will be teaching The Documentary: A Social Force in the journalism department Spring quarter at Pierce College Fort Steilacoom.

Screenings at the Appalachian Studies Conference

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Many Mountains, Many Musics is the theme of the 38th annual Appalachian Studies Conference at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN. The Telling Takes Me Home will screen on Friday March 27, 2015 at 10:15 a.m. and again on Saturday March 28, 2015 at 2:30. Friday’s screening will be followed by a Q&A with the producer. Visit the website for more information.

Screening at Marshall University

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As part of the Women’s History Month Film Festival, The Telling Takes Me Home will screen on Friday, March 13, 2015 at noon at INTO Marshall University. Sponsored by Marshall Libraries, Appalachian Studies Association, INTO, and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia.

One John Marshall Drive • Huntington, WV 25755 • +1 304 696 INTO (4686)