I’m alone in my kitchen. It’s earrrrrly Sunday morning before Thanksgiving and it is quiet. The calm before the storm. I sit in silence and…
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Chapter16: Lifting the Veil on Slavery
Wayne Dowdy documents the history of enslaved African Americans in Memphis By Aram Goudsouzian for Chapter16.org originally published November 17, 2021 Whenever one of my…
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Home is for healing
By Candace Echols Almost every day, a new piece of bad news arrives on our doorstep. Insofar as I can tell, it’s the same with…
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Storytellers United. All of our Behind the Arts participants have been selected; registration is now closed.
StoryBoard will be announcing the workshop participants in a couple of weeks. Original announcement (September 1, 2021) Interested in following a Playhouse rehearsal? The Metal…
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Calling on Memphis Storytellers: Behind the Arts Storytellers Workshop is on!
Thanks to a 2021 ArtsMemphis and Tennessee Arts Commission Arts Build Communities Grant and your generous donations, recruiting work on StoryBoard’s Behind the Arts Workshop…
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Life with Zoe
Time Capsules Words and Zoe Photos By Ken Billett A woman, bundled up for the frigid November morning, rounded a cement pathway, heading in our…
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August is coming
Talk to the heat A poem by Michael B. Conway Talk to the heat; it’ll make madness seem sane.Listen to it screech cicada screamsat straw…
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Southern Festival of Books Announces Author Lineup for 33rd Annual Event
The state’s largest literary event will feature 100 authors By Humanities Tennessee, for Chapter16.org The Southern Festival of Books announced tonight the first of its…
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Stax in my Soul
By Ken Billett On a warm Saturday afternoon in late May, my birthday week celebration came to an end at the Stax Museum of American…
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Live Professional Theatre Returns to the Mid-South with a World Premiere
Playhouse on the Square, in partnership with super sponsor Dr. Thomas Ratliff, and generous grants from The Jeniam Foundation, ArtsMemphis, and the Tennessee Arts Commission,…
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