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Free Your Mind Juneteenth Lecture Series with Michael Twitty
June 15, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
This year the Carver Museum is teaming up with the City of Austin Equity Office to present a week of dynamic conversations with thought leaders and public scholars as part of the Free Your Mind Juneteenth Lecture Series!
Calling all chefs, food-heads, and historians! Join us on Thursday, June 15, for culinary food historian James Beard, Book Award recipient and author of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American History in the Old South, Michael W. Twitty.
SCHEDULE:
5:30pm- 6:00pm- Doors open/ guests arrive. Parking is available on site.
6:00pm-7:30pm- Michael will present a lecture on African-American foodways and contemporary abolitionist movements followed by a Q&A facilitated by University of Texas Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, Dr. Ashante Reese, followed by a reception ending at 8:00 pm.
5:30pm- 6:00pm- Doors open/ guests arrive. Parking is available on site.
6:00pm-7:30pm- Michael will present a lecture on African-American foodways and contemporary abolitionist movements followed by a Q&A facilitated by University of Texas Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, Dr. Ashante Reese, followed by a reception ending at 8:00 pm.
Thursday, June 15 6-8pm
Carver Museum and Genealogy Center
1165 Angelina Street, Austin TX 78702
Carver Museum and Genealogy Center
1165 Angelina Street, Austin TX 78702