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SUMMARY:9th Annual March Forth
DESCRIPTION:Ninth Annual March Forth to Be Held on March 1 & 2 in Port Royal\, Beaufort\, and St. Helena Island \nOur Conroy Center’s ninth annual March Forth will be held on Saturday\, March 1\, and Sunday\, March 2\, with educational programs in Beaufort\, Port Royal\, St. Helena Island\, and online. This special event commemorates the anniversary of Pat Conroy’s passing on March 4\, 2016\, by engaging with major themes of his writing and teaching life\, including social justice\, inclusivity\, conservation\, education\, truth-telling\, and storytelling. \nLearn more and register in advance at Eventbrite \nMarch Forth will include appearances by: \n\nAshley Hope Pérez: YA novelist\, educator\, advocate\, and editor of Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights\nKimberly Brock: novelist\, past Georgia Author of the Year\, and author of The Fabled Earth\, a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction\nEdda L. Fields-Black: professor of history and director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University\, author of Combee: Harriet Tubman\, The Combahee River Raid\, and Black Freedom During the Civil War\nKatherine Freeman: National Park Service Ranger with the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park\nJake Zadik: Brays Island naturalist\, nature photographer\, and cofounder of South Carolina Partners of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (SCPARC)\nJuliana Zadik: naturalist\, educator\, and Beaufort County Long-Range Environmental Planner\nDana Ridenour: retired FBI undercover special agent\, author of the Lexie Montgomery series\nEugene A. Rugala: retired FBI “profiler\,” behavioral science consultant and author\nDAYLO: Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization\n\nThis year\, March Forth is hosted by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and nationally recognized youth advocate Julia Garnett. \nMarch Forth is presented in collaboration between the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, Penn Center\, NeverMore Books\, the Port Royal Farmers Market\, the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park\, and DAYLO: Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization. \n~EVENTS FOR SATURDAY MARCH 1~\n9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.: Reconstruction Era National Historic Park ToursExplore the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park locations in Beaufort\, Port Royal\, and St. Helena. Free. See Details Here. \n9:30 a.m. to Noon: Read with a Ranger and Teddy Bear Picnic at the Port Royal Farmers MarketStudent volunteers from DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization) will be reading children’s picture books to young readers and their families\, with light snacks provided. DAYLO students will be joined by National Park Service Ranger Katherine Freeman from the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park for a special read-aloud\, Read with a Ranger. This free event will be held near the gazebo at the Port Royal Farmers Market (1615 Ribaut Rd\, Port Royal). No registration needed. \n10:00 a.m. to Noon: Demythologizing the FBI: What Writers Get Wrong\, Workshop Led by Dana Ridenour and Eugene A. RugalaJoin retired FBI undercover special agent turned novelist Dana Ridenour and retired FBI “profiler” turned consultant Eugene A. Rugala for a workshop for writers (and interested readers) about what FBI work is really like–and what novels and films get wrong. $60/person\, limited to 20 attendees. Held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Register in advance at Eventbrite. \n10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Penn Center’s York W. Bailey Museum ToursExplore Penn Center and the York W. Bailey Museum (16 Penn Center Circle West\, St. Helena Island). Docent-led tours available. $15-$20/person. \nNoon to 4:00 p.m.: Pat Conroy Literary Center ToursThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort) is open for free public tours\, guided by volunteer docents. \n5:00 to 6:00 p.m.: Facebook Live Interview with Ashley Hope Pérez\, Editor of Banned Together\, in Conversation with Jonathan Haupt and Julia Garnett \nAshley Hope Pérez’s 2015 YA novel Out of Darkness won a Printz Honor and the Tomás Rivera Book Award—and it as one of the top ten most banned books of 2021. Pérez will discuss her new anthology Banned Together: The Fight for Reader’s Rights (to be published on March 4) in conversation with Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and Banned Books Week Honorary Youth Chair Julia Garnett. This free virtual event will be live-streamed to the Conroy Center’s Facebook page and available to watch through Monday\, March 3\, at 6:00 p.m. No registration required. \n~EVENTS FOR SUNDAY MARCH 2~\nAll Sunday events are ticketed (Eventbrite)and held at Penn Center’s Frissell Hall\, 16 Penn Center Circle West\, St. Helena Island. Nature walk: $10/person. Catered lunch + two author presentations: $30. \n\n9:30-10:00 a.m.: Attendee check-in.\n10:00-11:30 a.m.: Birding and nature walk of Penn Center led by husband and wife naturalists Jake and Juliana Zadik. Approximately 1 mile. $10/person; limited to 40 participants.\n11:30 to Noon. Catered lunch by Magnolia’s Cafe. Included in $30/person registration.\nNoon to 1:00 p.m.: Presentation by Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black\, professor of history and director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University\, author of Combee: Harriet Tubman\, The Combahee River Raid\, and Black Freedom During the Civil War. Included in $30/person registration.\n1:00 to 1:30 p.m.: Book signing break with NeverMore Books.\n1:30 to 2:30 p.m.: Conversation with Kimberly Brock: novelist\, past Georgia Author of the Year\, and author of The Fabled Earth\, a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction–interviewed by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and Banned Books Week Honorary Youth Chair Julia Garnett. Included in $30/person registration.\n2:30-3:00 p.m.: Book signing break with NeverMore Books.\n3:00 p.m.: Closing remarks
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SUMMARY:8th Annual March Forth
DESCRIPTION:Eighth Annual March Forth to Be Held on March 2 & 3 in Port Royal\, Beaufort\, and St. Helena Island \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center’s eighth annual March Forth will be held on Saturday\, March 2\, and Sunday\, March 3. This special event commemorates the anniversary of Pat Conroy’s passing on March 4\, 2016\, with programs on major themes of his writing and teaching life\, including social justice\, inclusivity\, conservation\, education\, and storytelling. \nLearn more and register in advance at Eventbrite \nMarch Forth will include appearances by novelist Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, author of Red Clay Suzie (Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize); novelist\, musician\, and educator Brendan Slocumb\, author of Symphony of Secrets and The Violin Conspiracy (A Good Morning America Book Club Selection); naturalist and biographer Patrick Dean\, author of Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World; award-winning nature photographer Kelley Luikey; Spring Island Trust executive director Andy Jones; National Park Service Ranger Katherine Freeman; and the students of DAYLO. \nMarch Forth is hosted this year by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt\, Conroy Center board member Ginger Olszewski\, and Lowcountry Weekly publisher and columnist Margaret Evans. \nFree events will be held at the Port Royal Farmers Market and the Conroy Center on Saturday\, March 2. A ticketed all-day event (including a catered lunch by award-winning caterer and cookbook author Debbi Covington) will be held at Penn Center on St. Helena Island on Sunday\, March 3. Books by presenting authors will be available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. \nMarch Forth is presented in collaboration between the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and Penn Center\, NeverMore Books\, Lowcountry Pride\, the Port Royal Farmers Market\, the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park\, the Rhett House Inn\, MarshSong Cottage\, Catering by Debbi Covington\, and DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization)\, and sponsored in part by the Pulpwood Queens Book Club. \n~SCHEDULE OF EVENTS~\nTEDDY BEAR PICNIC READ-ALOUD and READ WITH A RANGER at the PORT ROYAL FARMERS MARKET on SATURDAY\, MARCH 2\n9:30-Noon. Student volunteers from local chapters of DAYLO will be reading children’s picture books to young readers and their families\, with light snacks provided. DAYLO students will be joined by National Park Service Ranger Katherine Freeman from the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park for a special read-aloud\, Read with a Ranger. This free event will be held near the gazebo at the Port Royal Farmers Market (1615 Ribaut Rd\, Port Royal). No registration needed. \nAN AFTERNOON WITH JEFFREY DALE LOFTON\, AUTHOR OF RED CLAY SUZIE\, at the CONROY CENTER on SATURDAY\, MARCH 2\n2:00-3:30 p.m. Award-winning writer Jeffrey Dale Lofton will discuss his debut novel Red Clay Suzie (Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize) at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort)\, presented in collaboration with Lowcountry Pride. Books will be available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. Seating is limited for this free event; please register in advance at 843-379-7025. \nTICKETED MARCH FORTH EVENTS at PENN CENTER on SUNDAY\, MARCH 3\n9:30-10:00 a.m. Attendee check-in.\n10:00-11:30 a.m. Birding and nature walk of Penn Center led by naturalist and Spring Island Trust and Lowcountry Institute executive director Andy Jones.\n11:30 to Noon. Catered lunch by Debbi Covington. (Register in advance by February 26 for lunch. Day-of registrations may be possible without lunch.)\nNoon to 1:00 p.m. Novelist\, musician\, and educator Brendan Slocumb\, author of Symphony of Secrets and The Violin Conspiracy (A Good Morning America Book Club Selection) in conversation with Conroy Center Executive Director Jonathan Haupt\, presented with the generous support of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club.\n1:00 to 1:20 p.m. Book signing break with NeverMore Books.\n1:20 to 2:20 p.m. Naturalist and biographer Patrick Dean\, author of Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World\, in conversation with Lowcountry Weekly publisher and columnist Margaret Evans.\n2:20-2:40 p.m. Book signing break with NeverMore Books.\n2:40-3:40 p.m. A special slideshow presentation by award-winning nature photographer\, naturalist\, and educator Kelley Luikey.\n3:40-4:00 p.m. Closing remarks. \n~ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS~\nPatrick Dean writes on the outdoors and the environment. He has worked as a teacher\, a political media director\, and is presently the executive director of a rail-trail nonprofit. An avid trail-runner\, paddler\, and mountain-biker\, he lives with his wife and dogs on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Dean is the author of A Window to Heaven\, about the summit of Denali\, and Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World. \n  \nDr. Andy Jones\, executive director of the Spring Island Trust and Lowcountry Institute\, is a lifelong naturalist\, with a passion for the biodiversity of the Southeast. He studied biological sciences at the University of Tennessee\, and completed his PhD on the evolutionary history of Philippine birds at the University of Minnesota. From 2006 until early 2022\, he served curator of ornithology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He has also served as a board member and on the research committee of Black Swamp Bird Observatory\, as a board member of Winous Point Marsh Conservancy\, and as Secretary of the American Ornithological Society. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society for his contributions to ornithology. \nJeffrey Dale Lofton is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress in Washington\, D.C. A veteran stage actor turned debut novelist\, he is the author of Red Clay Suzie\, written through his personal lens growing up an outsider figuring out life and love in a conservative family and community in the Deep South. The novel was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize). \n  \nKelley Luikey is an award-winning photographer\, educator\, and Master Naturalist. Her photography consistently ranks in the Top 100 Images for national and international competitions such as the National Audobon Society and North American Nature Photographers Association. Her work hangs in private homes and offices across the country\, has appeared in numerous publications–including National Audubon Society magazine and the cover of Garden and Gun magazine. Through her work\, she hopes to inspire others to appreciate and preserve the beauty of the Lowcountry. Luikey resides in Port Royal with her husband and two children. She currently exhibits at Pluff Mudd Art in Bluffton and MacDonald Marketplace in Beaufort. \nBrendan Slocumb is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in music education\, concentrations on Violin and Viola. For the past two decades\, he has been a public and private school music educator from kindergarten through twelfth grade\, teaching general music\, orchestra\, and guitar ensembles. His students were often chosen for district and regional orchestras. In 2005\, Brendan was named Teacher of the Year for Robert E. Lee High School; he has been named to Who’s Who of American teachers\, and is a Nobel Teacher of distinction. Brendan also serves as an educational consultant for the Kennedy Center in Washington\, D.C. He is the author of two novels: The Violin Conspiracy (a selection of the Good Morning America Book Club) and the recently released Symphony of Secrets.
URL:https://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/8th-annual-march-forth/
LOCATION:Penn Center\, 16 Penn Center Circle West\, St. Helena Island\, SC\, 29920\, United States
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