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Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC

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ARCHIVAL SPECIAL VIEWING

Wednesday October 4, 2023 05:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC Cost: Free
Archival Special Viewing: “Afro-Surrealism, The Negritude Movement, and the Archival Roots of Afrofuturism” will take place at the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library Archives Research Center, 111 James P Brawley Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA 30314. All Ages, 5-7 p.m. Free. [click here for more]
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Juneteenth Lecture Series (3)

Tuesday June 14, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC Cost: $20
Join Historian in Heels Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado to learn the history of Juneteenth

Presented by Brave Nu Ventures

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Monday December 11, 2017 01:00 PM EST
Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC Cost: Free
Guests are invited to enjoy free vegan cookies and let their creativity loose with chalk to spread the vegan message.  [click here for more]

Thursday November 9, 2017 05:00 PM EST
Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC Cost:
Bancroft award-winning author and professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin will discuss her book, Courage To Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement. The book explores the full scope of the civil rights movement in Atlanta, where the civil rights movement was in full swing long before... [click here for more]
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Thursday September 28, 2017 05:30 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC Cost:
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Douglas Blackmon and WABE’s Closer Look host Rose Scott are in town to discuss Blackmon’s documentary The Harvest. The film explores the struggle to integrate schools in a small, Mississippi Delta town and the paradoxical nature of modern race relations in the Unite... [click here for more]

Saturday June 18, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC Cost: Free
This new exhibition examines the city of Atlanta’s rapid growth during the second half of the 20th century and how city leaders and citizens met the challenges. A panel discussion with curators on April 12 will give the public more insight into Atlanta’s greatest period of expansion. [click here for more]

Monday April 11, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC Cost: Free
Centering around the “Changing Atlanta 1950-1999: The Challenges of a Growing Southern Metropolis” exhibition, this panel will feature curators Michael Camp, Louis Fagnan, and Kristin Morgan, who will examine the political, economic, geographic, and cultural shifts brought on as Atlanta grew int... [click here for more]

Monday March 28, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC Cost: Free
Tiffany Stern, professor of English and early modern drama at the University of Oxford, will discuss the creation and impact of the 1623 publication of the First Folio on the enduring popularity of Shakespeare. Eighteen Shakespeare plays, including Macbeth” and “Julius Caesar [click here for more]

Wednesday March 23, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC Cost: Free
Amber Dermont is the author of the New York Times-bestselling novel The Starboard Sea and the short story collection Damage Control, both published by St. Martin’s Press. [click here for more]

Monday March 14, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC Cost: Free
Artist, bookmaker and letterpress printer Amos P. Kennedy Jr. and Randall K. Burkett, research curator of Emory’s Rose Library’s African American collections, will discuss Kennedy’s work, chipboard posters with social, political, racial and inspirational messages created with an old-fashioned lett... [click here for more]

Sunday January 10, 2016 07:00 PM EST
Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC Cost: Free
This rotating exhibit features artists’ books and other archival material from the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, and Nexus Press collection. Fifteen artists’ books in three cases are refreshed every three months. Curated by Lauran Whitworth, Julie Newton, and Ra... [click here for more]
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