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ZORA NEALE HURSTON
FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
AN INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION

FIFTH ANNUAL
JANUARY 24-30, 1994

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he Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival

of the Arts and Humanities is sponsored
by The Association to Preserve the Eatonville
Community, Inc. (P.E.C.), a 501 (c) 3, non-
profit historic preservation corporation.

P.E.C. calls its ongoing preservation activities
THE ZORA PROJECT. ZORA PROJECT
goals are explaining to the public:

¢ The significance of Zora Neale Hurston,
20th century American writer, folklorist,
and anthropologist;

¢ The importance of the historic Eatonville,
Florida community;

¢ The magnitude of contributions that per-
sons of African descent have made to the
culture of the United States.

The Hurston Festival brings highly respected
scholars and major cultural arts figures to
Eatonville and the Central Florida commu-
nity.

The First Festival

Zora Neale Hurston: An Interdisciplinary
Approach to the Treatment of "The Folk"
January 25-28, 1990

Guests:

e Mrs. Augusta Baker
Librarian Emeritus, New York City Public
Library; nationally recognized storyteller

¢ Miss Ruby Dee
Distinguished Actress of Stage and Screen

e Dr. Robert Hemenway
Chancellor, University of Kentucky-Lexington
Campus; Hurston's literary biographer

¢ Dr. Ruthe T. Sheffey
Founder and President, Zora Neale Hurston
Society, Morgan State University, Baltimore

° Ms. Alice Walker
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

The Second Festival

Ideas, Events, Personalities that Influenced
Hurston and Her Work
January 24-27, 1991

Guests:

¢ Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities
Harvard University

e Dr. Trudier Harris
]. Sitterson Carlyle Professor of English
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

e Mr. Marcus Roberts
Jazz Pianist

® Miss Cicely Tyson
Distinguished Actress of Stage and Screen

The Third Festival

African-American Communities:
Witnesses to Cultural Survival
January 23-26, 1992

Guests:

e Mr. Charles L. Blockson
Curator, The Charles L. Blockson Collection
Temple University

¢ Ms. Joan Maynard
Executive Director, Weeksville Society, Brooklyn

e Dr. Dorothy Porter Wesley
Librarian Emeritus, Moorland-Spingarn
Collection, Howard University

e Dr. Eleanor Ramsey
Guiding force behind the establishment of

Allensworth, oldest African-American commu-
nity in California as a California State Park

e Mr. Oscar Brown, Jr.
Jazz Artist

e Dr. Richard K. Dozier
College of Architecture, Florida
Agricultural and Mechanical University

e Mr. Ossie Davis
Actor and Playwright

The Fourth Fesfival

Zora Neale Hurston and Folk Culture -
Their Influence on African-American Culture

January 28-31, 1993

Major Activities:

e Workshops and classes in aspects of the
theatre using African-Americancontributions,
experiences and interpretations as focal points
of instruction

e Anadaptation of From Sun to Sun, a dramatic
presentation originally staged by Zora Neale
Hurston at Rollins College (Winter Park, 1933)
and at the New School for Social Research
(New York, 1938)

The Fifth Festival

Zora Neale Hurston: A Global Perspective
January 24-30, 1994

The culmination of this five-year cycle which exam-
ined Hurston, her work, and the community she
celebrated, Festival '94 will bring scholars and
Hurston enthusiasts from Africa, the Americas,
Asia, Australia, and Europe to Eatonville and its
environs for a week-long celebration.

Program Features:

e International scholars’ response to a call for
papers

¢ Commissioned paper entitled "Zora Neale
Hurston — A Global Perspective"

e "Fireworks-Generating” intellectual
encounters (celebrity scholars and/or
celebrities)

¢ Development of 4 strands — folk culture,
literature, music, theatre (public forum
sessions)

¢ Mini-Institute for Young Scholars
(upper-level high school /community
college students)

e Mini-Institute for Arts, Education, and
Information Professionals Who Work
with Young People

¢ Celebrity involvement on each festival day