Mar 4, 2021
The 202 Start:ME Entrepreneurs are ready to gather feedback from you! Their potential customers!
Start:ME Spartanburg is hosting a ‘Custo
About this Event
The 2021 Start:ME Entrepreneurs are ready to gather feedback from you! Their potential customers!
Start:ME Spartanburg is hosting a ‘Customer Focus Group Night’ for customers from the Northside community and the Cleveland Academy of Leadership area and neighboring communities on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 from 6 to 8 PM at the Johnson College of Business and Economics.
Mar 1, 2021
In partnership with Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, this year’s half-day virtual
conference will allow women to not only look within themselves and realize they have influence
and are indispensable, but women will learn how to also support other women on that way to
success, and discover how to be intentional and ALL IN for each other!
Feb 10, 2021
NEEDLE FELTED LANDSCAPE [ages 17+]
$45 | sat 2.27.2021 | 1 – 4 pm | 1 day
Create a colorful sunrise or sunset “painting” with organic New Zealand wool and a variety of needle-felting techniques! Transform soft, colorful wool fibers into a beautiful landscape that can be framed and displayed in your home or stitched to a pillow as unique home decor, or attach your “painting” to a tote bag, jacket, or sweater for a one-of-a-kind fashionable accessory! No prior experience is necessary; all materials and supplies included.
price breakdown | $25 class fee + $20 materials fee
Feb 10, 2021
Acting Foundations
Thursdays | Grades 3rd-6th | 4:00-5:15pm | $125 | 10 weeks
Class enrollment: 5 minimum | 8 maximum
Are you interested in acting but not quite sure where to start? We’ve got you covered! This class will build self-confidence while developing physical, vocal, and creative skills for the stage. You will leave the class with a strong foundation in stage performance and a newfound sense of self-expression.
This class will meet weekly on Thursdays for 10 weeks starting Thursday, February 25, 2021. The final class will be on Thursday, May 6, 2021. Classes will not meet the week of April 5-9, 2021 due to district 7 spring break.
Feb 10, 2021
In celebration of Black History Month CAAS is pleased to announce the CAAS “State of the Field Address: New Directions in African American Studies” lecture (virtual, COVID edition!) Featuring Dr. Frank Wilderson III, Chair and Professor of African American Studies at UC Irvine. Dr. Wilderson will discuss his recent work, Afropessimism (Liveright/W.W. Norton 2020), an engaging work of creative non-fiction that offers a new and compelling interpretation of black racial identity through the lens of critical race theory, and the larger implications his ideas have on the field of African American Studies.
Dr. Wilderson’s virtual talk is scheduled for Monday, February 22nd at 3pm EST.
Please RSVP by 2/18/21 using the following link:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Ynu6jIaexkabGwZQSmHHLRtzcJHmlfVBotNO2ed2_9xUNUlWQzZVMDM2NVA3QzJMRFo1QkxQMllTNC4u
Frank B. Wilderson, III is professor and chair of African American Studies, and a core faculty member of the Culture & Theory Ph.D. Program at UC Irvine; and an award-winning writer whose books include Afropessimism (Liveright/W.W. Norton 2020); Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press 2015); and Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010). He spent five and a half years in South Africa, where he was one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress during the apartheid era. He also was a cadre in the underground. His literary awards include The American Book Award; The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Creative Nonfiction; The Maya Angelou Award for Best Fiction Portraying the Black Experience in America; and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.
