If you are interested in attending SOAR with the UK Appalachian Center, please contact Mary Glenn Marsden by FRIDAY, AUGUST 23rd at 4PM. The Appalachian Center will cover your registration fee for FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th and you will be expected to work for a shift at the App Center's booth. For more information on the SOAR Summit visit this LINK and view the agenda HERE.

The Laurel County African-American Heritage Center (LCAAHC) is beginning the “African Americans in the Tri-County Area Oral History Project.” Join us for a community oral history training to learn how to conduct oral history interviews. Stipends are available for community members to conduct interviews. This training is sponsored by the Laurel County African American Heritage Center, the UK Nunn Center for Oral History, and the UK Appalachian Center. For more information click HERE!

The LCAAHC is beginning the “African Americans in the Tri-County Area Oral History Project.” Join us for a community oral history training to learn how to conduct oral history interviews. Stipends are available for community members to conduct interviews. This training is sponsored by the Laurel County African American Heritage Center, the UK Nunn Center for Oral History, and the UK Appalachian Center.

This project seeks to explore, document, and share African American experiences in southeastern Kentucky, especially Knox, Laurel, and Whitley Counties. Oral history interviews will give insight into the lives and contributions of African Americans in the Tri-County area. A research team of the project co-directors, community researchers, and project consultants will work together through the Laurel County African American Heritage Center to conduct oral histories in order to highlight diverse voices in the community and broaden the narrative about the history of the area. Lunch will be provided. To learn more click HERE or visit the LCAAHC Facebook page!

https://ruralhealth.med.uky.edu/news/appalachian-research-day-calls-proposals

We hope that you'll join us at The Corbin Center for our second film screening in Corbin, this time to celebrate Black History Month. The film shown will be Evelyn Williams, an Appalshop film directed by Anne Lewis.

Evelyn Williams is a portrait of a woman who is many things: a coal miner’s daughter and wife; a domestic worker and mother of nine; a college student in her 50s and community organizer; an Appalachian African American. Above all, she is a woman whose awareness of class and race oppression has led her to a lifetime of activism. Now in her 80s, she is battling to save her land in eastern Kentucky from destruction by a large oil and gas firm. Guest speaker will be announced soon.

A little more about the event and the space:
There will be food, and admission is free. The Corbin Center is wheelchair accessible. All ages are welcome!

This film is being hosted by a newly forming group called Corbin Racial Justice Initiative that the Cumberland Chapter of KFTC is excited to be apart of alongside the Laurel County African American Heritage Center and the University of Kentucky Appalachian Studies Center. Big thank you to Stefanie Ebbens Kingsley Law for providing support. ♥

If you've got any questions please reach out to CorbinInitiative@gmail.com

Dr. Kathryn Engle will meet with students to discuss water issues in Martin County, Kentucky on February 12th at 5PM at the UK Appalachian Center at 624 Maxwelton Court. To read more about this ongoing project click HERE.

The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning has chosen Ed McClanahan, 86, and Gurney Norman, 81, both of Lexington, as this year's living inductees into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. They will be honored February 13th at 7PM at the Kentucky Theatre, 214 East Main Street. The event is free and open to the public. To read more about this event please click HERE!

Registration is open for the 2019 Eastern Kentucky Farmer Conference. This year the conference will be on the campus of RCARS Robinson Center for Agricultural Research and Sustainability) in Jackson. The dates are Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, February 22nd & 23rd. Scholarships offered by KSU are available! Please click HERE to register!