We are excited to host our 33rd Annual Covered Dish Supper and Meeting on Thursday, May 12th at the Savannah Station from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. More details to follow. Save the date and join us for great food, music and stories from citizen advocacy matches in Savannah.
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Join us for the Opening Reception for this photography show on Tuesday, November 2nd from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at the Sentient Beat at 13 E. Park Avenue.
In April of 2010, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina hosted a historic gathering to commemorate the founding of one of the most influential and effective civil rights organizations, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee- better known as SNCC (pronounced Snick.) The conference, held on the exact dates and place of it’s founding 50 years earlier, promised to bring together some of the brightest luminaries of the civil rights struggle. But more than that, among the conference’s goals was the thoughtful consideration of how to excite and activate youth to continue the struggle today.
A group of Savannahians who were not former members of SNCC traveled to Raleigh to attend. Some of us had been supporters of the struggle; some of us had been too young; some had not been born. Most share a connection to a local organization, Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy which brings people together around the issues of social justice. Our concern for human rights includes persons with disabilities.
We trace the lineage of the movement for rights of people with disabilities directly from the civil rights movement: the struggle in our country’s recent history where people were willing, and did die for their beliefs. In awe of the bravery of our heroic brothers and sisters in the struggle, we wanted to meet them, listen to them, learn from them. We were not disappointed.
These photos by Ann Curry, Susan Earl and Sunny Ingram show some of SNCC’s heroes, sung and unsung and some of the Savannahians who went to learn and celebrate.
Wednesday, September 1st
Presentation from noon – 1 p.m. at the Ogeechee Theatre, New Student Union Building, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Discussion from 2:30 – 4 p.m. in Ballroom B next to the Ogeechee Theatre
Tom Kohler and Susan Earl will read and share photos from their book Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community which has been chosen as Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Common Read book for the 2010-2011 academic year.
The book is also the focus of the Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community MLK Day 2011 World Wide Read in which 5,000 small group readings will take place around the globe between September 1, 2010 and MLK Jr. Day January 17, 2011.
The authors will have autographed copies of the book for sale.
For more information on this event and other Common Read and World Wide Reading Day activities, please visit www.waddiewelcome.com or give us a call at 912.236.5798.
Thanks to the hundreds of people who helped create the experience of our 32nd Annual Covered Dish Supper and Annual Meeting this year! We wanted the evening to reflect the spirit of our work – lots of people, lots of action, lots of love.
Thirty tables were decorated, each by a different volunteer. Thirty different sets of china, placemats and centerpieces…All were different, and each a reflection of the table decorator’s personal sense of community. We had homemakers, handymen, baristas, bread makers, attorneys, architects, artists and art students… all creating their design of community.
Hundreds of people brought delicious food. Trey Matthews and Michael Strickland covered platters with shrimp, cheeses and fruit for the appetizers. Gary Mueller smoked his famous Boston butts, Mr. Gadson rolled up with black eyed peas and mac and cheese, Suzanne Aiken served up some delicious homemade lasagna and Cindy Vaughn Sinclair shared a delicious cheesy chicken pasta. Add the salads and salsa, veggies for vegans, fried and roasted chicken, mashed and scalloped potatoes, pastas, squash casseroles, stewed corn and cakes and pies as well. More than 300 people made it through the buffet lines just fine.
The music was eclectic. The band SOAP rocked the social hour reception. Our very own “Yes You Can Community Choir” led by Jessica Feucht, Mae Ola Mason and Bill Smith opened with Imagine and closed with Lean on Me. Thanks to the singers and musicians including Ellen Gross, Mike English, Rigel Crockett, Regina Thomas, Chuck McDew and Betsy Cain and the wonderful sound technicians from StageFront Presentation Systems. And thanks to everyone who jumped in big and bold from the floor to sing along.
Master of Ceremonies Wade Herring kept the evening flowing and introduced four citizen advocates who turned into storytellers for the evening.
Our set up crew made sure that everything was in place. Thanks to head planner Kristin Russell, Laura Greene Smith, Susan Earl, Ben Oxnard, Sylvester Brown, Alice Kohler, Maggie Grimm, Ali Wyland, Simone Wilkinson, Sabrina Manganella Simmons, Mary Simmons and Savannah Simmons, Emma Varland, Sienna Varland, Delores Wilson, folks from HostSouth and Theresa Reed from the Savannah Station.
Greeters included Dicky Stone, Robert Cohen, Irving Tate, Tammy Stokes, Gordon Matthews, Sean Brandon, Herman Days, Laura Greene Smith and Sha Dishong.
Our kitchen and beverage crew, led by Rebecca Freeman from Lulu’s Chocolate Bar, kept food and drinks flowing. Thanks to Jamie Maury, Dan Snyder, Jerry Wright, Robyn Joffe, Sam Carroll, Suzanne Aiken, Delores Wilson, Timmy Welter, Simone Wilkinson, Carmela Aliffi, Juanita Tucker, Brad Baugh and Sebastian Edwards.
And we can’t forget the clean up crew who worked until 10 p.m. to make sure that the Savannah Station will have us back again next year. Thanks to Rob O’Brien, Pat O’Brien, Jeanne O’Brien, Ann Fuller, Rebecca Freeman, Joel Varland, Simone Wilkinson, Sam Spencer, Alix Baptiste, Laura Greene Smith, Delores Wilson, Juanita Tucker, Mike Williams, Kristin Russell, Brad Baugh, Robyn Joffe and Sam Carroll.
If we left your name off of this quick list, we apologize and to all we offer a big thank you!