PLEASE NOTE: Must register for #AAAM2023 to obtain links and information to join the tour and convening.
Creating Your Own Utopia: A Personal and Professional
Development Workshop
presented by the Smithsonian Institution’s Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past Initiative in collaboration with the Anacostia Community Museum.
What to Expect:
This Pre-Conference workshop will provide an immersive learning experience to advance collaboration and professional resilience through the sharing of best practices in personal advocacy, community engagement, exhibition planning, and public programming that is highly accessible to the local community.
Who Should Attend:
This hands-on learning opportunity is designed for practitioners, artists, and advocates who take a community-centered approach to amplifying, collecting, and preserving Black art, history, and culture within galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.
FEE: $50/pp
Join the African American Association of Museums’ Conference attendees and local Black Nashville Community on a Your Legacy Tours, hosted by Greenwood Seneca Foundation in partnership with Traveller’s Rest Historic House Museum.
Unlike other historic site tours we will…
- Travel to the space together on a chartered bus (included in ticket price)
- Honor the space, energy and spirit of the ancestors
- Cheers to their life as we explore their labor (wine and libations also included)
- Participate in private docent led tour of the grounds
- Incorporate AR technology to reconnect to the lives of our ancestors
- Learn history from the lens of the lives they lived not just the labor they endured
- Debrief as a community over Black – owned coffee
- SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS!
- Shop at gift shop curated with local artisans and Black businesses who contribute to Your Legacy Tours
Greenwood Seneca Foundation is proud to partner with Association of African American Museums Annual conference to host their first annual, Your Legacy Tours, at Travellers Rest Historic House Museum where conference guests will be invited to reclaim joy and honor in the experience of their history through a curated invite-only tour of the site.
FEE: $40/pp
PLEASE NOTE: Must register for #AAAM2023 to obtain links and information to join the tour and convening.
