Avery Research Center 

Past Events

• Staff Pick

  Eternal Vigilantes (Visual Arts Openings)

  • Thu., Jan. 17, 6 p.m. 2013

• MOJA Arts Festival Literary Corner Special Event: A Charleston Affair - Jazz, Poetry, and Historic Moments (Books + Poetry)

  • Tue., Oct. 2, 7 p.m. 2012

• Staff Pick

  MOJA Arts Festival Juried Arts Exhibition (Visual Arts Openings)

  • Opening reception and awards ceremony Sept. 23, 5:30. On view through Oct. 30

• MOJA Juried Arts Exhibition (Call For Entries)

  • Thu., Aug. 23 2012

• Staff Pick

  Remembering "Her" Time: The Art of Bernice Mitchell Tate (Exhibits)

  • On view through Aug. 17.

• The Loving Story (Film + Radio)

  • Thu., July 26, 5 p.m. 2012

• AKWANTU: The Journey (Film + Radio)

  • Thu., June 14, 5:30 p.m. 2012

• Staff Pick

  Woke Up Black (Film + Radio)

  • Thu., Feb. 9, 6 p.m. 2012

• MOJA Arts Festival Juried Art Exhibition (Exhibits)

  • Opening reception Sept. 25, 5:30-7 p.m. On view through Oct. 30.

• Wachovia Lecture Series: Peter H. Wood (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Fri., Oct. 21, 6 p.m. 2011

• MOJA Literary Corner featuring Jacqueline Maduneme (Books + Poetry)

  • Tue., Oct. 4, 7-8 p.m. 2011

• Staff Pick

  We Carry Memories Inside of We (Visual Arts Openings)

  • Thu., Sept. 1, 7 p.m. 2011

• Gullah Art: Preservation, Presentation, and Interpretation (Exhibits)

  • On view through Aug. 31.

• Spoleto at the Avery (Conversations With...)

  • Fri., June 10, 5 p.m. 2011

• Colores del Carnaval Dominicano (Film + Radio)

  • Thu., May 26, 6 p.m. 2011

• American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Larest Slave Revolt (Books + Poetry)

  • Fri., March 18, 6-8 p.m. 2011

• Rhythm and Strokes: The Art of Hampton R. Olfus, Jr. (Museums)

  • Dec. 2-March 11 2011

• Rhythm & Strokes (Visual Arts Openings)

  • Opening reception Nov. 11, 6 p.m. On view through March 11, 2010.

• You Saved Me (Film + Radio)

  • Sat., Nov. 6, 5 p.m. 2010

• Civil War In Hampton Roads (Film + Radio)

  • Fri., Nov. 5, 3 p.m. 2010

• Indigo Blume and the Garden City Launch Party (Books + Poetry)

  • Fri., Nov. 5, 6 p.m. 2010

• Retracing the Steps (Books + Poetry)

  • Thu., Oct. 7, 6-7 p.m. 2010

• Literary Corner (Books + Poetry)

  • Tue., Sept. 28 2010

• Conversations with Our Donors Series: Eugene Frazier Sr. (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Thu., Aug. 19, 6 p.m. 2010

• Evenings Under the Crescent: The West African Connection (Film)

  • Sat., June 5, 6 p.m. 2010

• Charleston Jazz Initiative Legends Festival: Preserving South Carolina’s Jazz Legacy (Jazz, Blues, & More)

  • Fri., June 4, 8-10 p.m. 2010

• Evenings Under the Crescent: Prince Among Slaves (Film)

  • Thu., June 3, 6-7 p.m. 2010

• Staff Pick

  Spoleto at the Avery (Jazz, Blues, & More)

  • Wed., June 2, 5 p.m. 2010

• Staff Pick

  African-American Foodways in Cookbooks (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Thu., March 4, 6-8 p.m. 2010

• John Dittmer Lecture (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Wed., Feb. 24, 6-8 p.m. 2010

• Horace Mungin Reading (Books + Poetry)

  • Thu., Jan. 21, 6 p.m. 2010

• Role of Youth During the Charleston Movement, 1960-1965 (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Thu., Nov. 12, 7 p.m. 2009

• Sherry Suttles Book Signing (Books + Poetry)

  • Thu., Oct. 8, 6 p.m. 2009

• MOJA Festival Writer's Workshop (Books + Poetry)

  • Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. 2009

• MOJA Juried Arts Exhibit Opening Reception (Festivals + Events)

  • Sun., Sept. 20, 5:30-7 p.m. 2009

• Tasting Cultures: The Art of African/Diaspora Foodways (Exhibits)

  • On view through Sept. 7.

• Staff Pick

  SPEAKeasy: Straight. No Chaser (Books + Poetry)

  • Thu., Aug. 27, 6:30 p.m. 2009

• Staff Pick

  Black Music Film Festival (Film + Radio)

• Proceed and Be Bold! (Film + Radio)

  • Tue., June 2, 8 p.m. 2009

• Lemuel Reina (Exhibits)

• Staff Pick

  Beverly "Guitar" Watkins (Conversations With...)

  • Thu., May 28, 5 p.m. 2009
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• “Conversations With Our Donors” featuring Lucille S. Whipper (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Thu., May 21, 6-8 p.m. 2009

• Regulated Wild Lecture Series (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Thu., April 2, 7:30 p.m. 2009

• Women and the Water Spirits, How the Mermaid Myth Can Guide Your Life (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Mon., March 30, 6:30-8 p.m. 2009

• Conversations with Donors (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Thu., March 26, 6-8 p.m. 2009

• Oral History Workshop (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Sat., March 21, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 2009

• Regulated Wild Nature Lecture (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Thu., March 12, 7:30 p.m. 2009

• Volpe Fellowship Reception (Festivals + Events)

  • Thu., Feb. 26, 6-8 p.m. 2009

• Lincoln and the Civil War in Contemporary America (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Feb. 6-7 2009

• Regulated Wild Lecture Series (Lectures + Seminars)

  • Thu., Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m. 2009