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February 23, 2008 |
"Hattitude"
Luncheon
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: IRCC Koblegard Student Center
Tickets: $30.00
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March 11, 2008 - April 13, 2008 |
St. Lucie County Historical Museum
Exhibit
“Harlem Days of Zora Neale Hurston” (Opening Reception Friday March 14, 2008
from 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.)
Location: 414 Seaway Drive, Ft. Pierce, Fl
34950
Tickets: $4.00 Adults, $1.50 Students
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March 12, 2008 - April 8, 2008 |
Art Walk at Picture Perfect - "A
Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures"
Featuring artwork by Anita Prentice, Mosaic
Artist showing her Fourth in a series of
Mosaic Art Work Honoring Zora Neale Hurston
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Picture Perfect Gallery, 124 North
2nd Street, Fort Pierce
Contact Number: 772-461-0410
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March 21, 2008 |
"Jump at de Sun" Dance Performance
Time:7:00 p.m.
Location: Treasure Coast High School, 1000
SW Darwin Blvd. Port St. Lucie, Fl 34953
Tickets: $3.00 Student, $5.00 Adults
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March 26, 2008 |
Women with Words Book comparison of
Alice Walker’s Color Purple and Zora Neale
Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Ft. Pierce Yacht Club, 700 North
Indian River Drive
Tickets: FREE
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March 27, 2008 |
"Harlem Renaissance Rent Party"
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location: 414 Seaway Drive, Ft. Pierce, Fl
34950
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March 28, 2008 |
Zora Youth Event during the Day at
the Police Athletic Center whose goal is to
“Build Playgrounds not Prisons” Featuring
music, games, and more fun related to Zora
Neale Hurston
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Location: 1401 North Second Street, Fort
Pierce 34950
Tickets: FREE
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March 28, 2008 |
"Voices of the Harlem Renaissance" -
Florida Humanities Council- Florida
Humanities Council sponsored program of the
leading literary figures of the 20’s and
30’s starring, Phyllis McEwen as Zora Neale
Hurston, Bob Devin Jones as Langston Hughes,
and Leroy Mitchell as James Weldon Johnson
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Police Athletic League (PAL)
Center, 1401 North Second Street, Fort
Pierce 34950
Tickets: FREE
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March 29, 2008 |
"Harlem Renaissance" Zora Fest
Main Event
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Lincoln Park Academy - 1806 Avenue
I, Fort Pierce, 34950
Event Highlights:
Humanities Scholar Presentations:
Valerie Boyd author of “Wrapped in Rainbows”
(2004),
Lucy Hurston, niece of Zora Neale Hurston
and author of “Speak, So You Can Speak
Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
(2004),
Deborah Plant Ph.D. “Zora Neale Hurston: A
Biography of the Spirit” (2007) and “Every
Tub Must Sit On Its Own Bottom: The
Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale
Hurston” (1995)
Dr. Adenike Marie Davidson, Fisk University
“Understanding the Harlem Renaissance / New
Negro Movement”
Youth Activities: Lucy Hurston presenting
"Zora and the Little Ones", Madafo
Storyteller, Free books, Arts and Crafts,
caricatures by Mike Bryan.
Music: Ossie Wright, Local Youth Performers,
Jazz and Blues
“Jump at de Sun” dance performance honoring
life of Zora Neale Hurston (6:00 p.m. -
8:00 p.m.)
Guided bus tours of the award winning Zora
Neale Hurston Dust Tracks Heritage Trail.
Come visit Zora’s grave and the house where
she had lived.
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March 30, 2008 |
"Zora Fest Author's Brunch" - Featuring Lucy
Hurston, Niece of Zora Neale Hurston and
author of "Speak, So You Can Speak Again:
The Life of Zora Neale Hurston" (2004)
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Location: Pelican Yacht Club, 1120 Seaway
Drive, Fort Pierce 34949
Tickets: $40.00 (includes brunch and ticket
to the "Zora, The Documentary")
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March 30, 2008 |
“Zora, The Documentary”
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Sunrise Theatre 117 South Second
Street
Ft. Pierce, Florida 34950
Tickets: FREE
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