Ivy Tech Community College English composition classes will be learning from the Evansville African American Museum’s Soul Writer’s Guild on Tuesday, Feb. 21, from 4-6 p.m., in the Koch Student Commons. The event is part of Ivy Tech’s diversity awareness activities and celebration of Black History Month.
The Guild is a cultural and history writing group that works under the auspices of the Evansville African American Museum, to be a place where African American experiences can be addressed, promoted and encouraged through the written and spoken word. Its purpose is to incubate creative thinking, critical writing, and to catalog and store the written legacy in the Museum’s literary/media conference center.
Also a part of the event will be performances by local students in the NAACP’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) – a yearlong achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African-American high school students.
Guest speaker for the event is City Council Member Connie Robinson-Blair, with a panel discussion to follow featuring community leaders Estella Moss, Alex Burton, and Robinson-Blair.
