UNC Asheville Black History Month Events

Poet Natasha Trethewey

Staff Reports

February 10 – Humanities Lecture – “Land, Labor, and Citizenship: The Problem of Freedom,” Sarah Judson, associate professor of History, 11:25 a.m., UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. Info: humanities.unca.edu or (828) 251-6808.

February 10 – Humanities Lecture – “Civil Rights/Black Protest Thought,” Cathy Whitlock, lecturer in Mathematics, 11:25 a.m., UNC Asheville’s Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: humanities.unca.edu or (828) 251-6808.

February 16 – “Soul Café” – Poetry and music from Immovable Force at 8 p.m. in the Highsmith University Union Grotto. Info: (828) 251-6585.

February 20 – Film: “Soul Food Junkies” – Screening and discussion with filmmaker Byron Hurt, 7 p.m. in Highsmith University Union room 143. Info: (828) 251-6585.

February 23 – Poet Natasha Trethewey, who finds inspiration and source material for her poems in African American history, will present a reading and discussion of her work. The title poem of her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, “Native Guard,” recalls one of the first black Confederate regiments mustered during the Civil War, while other poems examine feelings in Mississippi about her parents’ interracial marriage. 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: (828) 251-6808.

February 26 – Reuter Center Singers Concert – The N.C. Center for Creative Retirement choir, directed by Milton Crotts, will feature music by African American composers in honor of Black History Month. The program will include “Come Sunday” by Duke Ellington, selections from Scott Joplin’s opera, Treemonisha, and selections from Robert Ray’s Gospel Mass. 3 p.m., St. Matthias Episcopal Church, 1 Dundee Street, Asheville. Free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken. Info: (828) 251-6140.

These events are free and open to the public.