33rd Annual ZORA Festival. We have moved to a year-round calendar. The 2022 ZORA! Festival Season will now consist of three (3) key events, each one appealing to both a specific, as well as to, an inter-generational audience. Our theme will be “Celebrations for the Generations.”
Season Kick-off: 33rd ZORA Festival! A month-long celebration, beginning on the birth date of the event’s namesake, Friday, January 7; including a series of programs, including a “Sunday Series;” an opening exhibition at the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts; “Experiencing Eatonville” cultural heritage tourism tours; the Africa – America Women’s Economic Forum & Trade Expo. A 2-day Afro-futurism Conference; and culminating in the 3-day Outdoor Festival of the Arts, January 28 – 30.
“Traditions” Weekend: Middle School and High School Students Celebrate Black Music Month”, an arts education program, June 17 – 18 ; and “HATitude Cultural Flair,” an African and African- American “Design” event, serving as a fundraiser on behalf of our organization’s after school and summer academic support for K-12 students, Saturday, October 29.
“Gathering & Gabbing” Zora Neale Hurston Book Club
In-Person and Virtual (Ticketed Event)
Featured Presenter: Valerie Boyd
Topic: Wrapped in Rainbows; biography of Zora Neale Hurston
Venue: Lias Hall, Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church
Address: 412 East Kennedy Boulevard, Eatonville 32751
Saturday
January 8
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Exhibition: Afro-futurism in the Visual Realm
In-Person (Free & Open to the Public)
Venue: Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts (The Hurston)
Address: 344 East Kennedy Boulevard, Eatonville, FL 32751
Sunday
January 9, 16, 23, 30, 2022
2:00 – 5:00 PM
The Sunday Series: Art in Eatonville
In-Person (Free & Open to the Public)
Venues:
The Hurston Museum, 344 East Kennedy Boulevard, Eatonville 32751 St. Lawrence African Methodist Episcopal Church, 549 East Kennedy Boulevard, Eatonville 32751. Matilda Moseley House Museum, 11 Taylor Street, Eatonville 33751
Location Check-in: The Hurston Museum
Address: 344 East Kennedy Boulevard, Eatonville, FL 32751
Sunday
January 23
3:00 – 5:00 PM
In-Person (Ticketed Event)
A Driving Tour designed to introduce guests to the gardening traditions of Eatonville, traditions which date back to the earliest days of the community’s founding in the late 19th century
Location Check-in: E-WE Community Computer Arts Lab & Learning Center
Address: 323 East Kennedy Boulevard. Suite D, Eatonville 32751
Tuesday – Wednesday
January 25 – 26
8:30 AM – 2:00 PM
In-Person and Virtual (Registration required)
Venue: Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College
Address: 1000 Holt Ave, Winter Park, FL 32789
Thursday – Friday
January 27 – 28
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
“Education Day”: 9th Annual ZORA! STEM Conference for Middle School Students
Virtual Only (Registration required)
Friday
January 28
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
“Education Day”: Outdoor Festival of the Arts in Eatonville
Free & Open to the Public
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