Florida Humanities Festival

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Join Florida Humanities and Selby Library for a celebration of the Suncoast region at the second annual Florida Humanities Festival!

Enjoy a day of cultural demonstrations, history panels, kids activities, a film screening and a Community Showcase of local organizations working to preserve and promote the history of the Suncoast. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack E. Davis will also be joining the festivities with a keynote presentation on the cultures and environments that have shaped the human experience in communities along the Gulf Coast.

For more information, visit Floridahumanities.org/fhfestival.

Join us from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for some of the following activities:

  • Keynote speaker presentation from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack E. Davis
  • Cultural Demonstrations and Performances
  • Community Showcase of 25 local humanities organizations
  • Florida Humanities Grant Workshop
  • Sneak Peek of new Hurricane Ian documentary, Rising: Surviving the Surge (WGCU and Florida Humanities)
  • Histories of the Suncoast panel discussions
  • Kids Corner

The Florida Humanities Festival: Suncoast is organized by Florida Humanities, with support provided by the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation, Gulf Coast Community Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed at this conference do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities.

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