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MISSISSIPPI'S TRAILFEST 2011 EVENTS
Trailfest 2011 programs in Mississippi are presented with the support and sponsorship of the Mississippi Development Authority, the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Mississippi Humanities Council, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Click on a town below for Trailfest
event information in that area. For a printable version of
Mississippi's Trailfest 2011 events schedule,
click here. Natchez Columbus Oxford Clarksdale Greenwood Greenville Clarksdale Jackson Visit our Facebook scrapbook for photos of our Trailfest 2011 events.
Thursday, February 24 to Sunday, February 27, 2011
On Saturday, February 26, actor Oscar winner Robert Duvall will be presented the Horton Foote Award for Special Achievement in Screenwriting. The actor was also the screenwriter for his films The Apostle, Assassination Tango, and A Shot at Glory. The Celebration includes opportunities to attend receptions and a gala benefit party. For complete information, visit www.colin.edu/nlcc or call 1.866.296.6522. Place and times:
Various Natchez locations including the Natchez Convention Center. See photos from this event on Facebook.
Trailfest 2011 is presented in
Columbus with the following partners: the Columbus Convention and
Visitors Bureau, the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation, the
Tennessee Williams Tribute and Tour of Victorian Homes, Mississippi
University for Women, the Columbus Arts Council, and the Mississippi
Humanities Council, a state program of the National Endowment for
For general information about the Tennessee Williams 100 events in Columbus, call the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation at 1.800.920.3533. Go to Facebook for photos from Columbus events.
Thursday, March 24 to Sunday, March 27, 2011 The internationally beloved playwright Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus on March 26, 1911. His hometown will lead the worldwide celebration of the centennial. For information regarding all birthday events in Columbus, check this website or call the city's Tennessee Williams Welcome Center at 662.328.0222.
Thursday, March 24, 2011 Gil Harris and his band, the Big Band Theory, perform a concert of songs that feature favorites of Tennessee Williams: If I Didn't Care and Danny Boy. The evening begins the playwright's hometown centennial, appropriately, on a musical note and it benefits preservation of the Tennessee Williams House, headquarters for the Welcome Center. The concert will be presented at the James M. Trotter Convention Center. Info: Heritage Foundation, 800.920.3533. Place: James M.
Trotter Convention Center
Thursday and Friday, March 24 and 25, 2011 The central character "Little Man" in the play has never loved anything or anyone, except the cat who shares his room in the broken-down boardinghouse of a factory town. Though he is pursued by his landlady, Little Man feels a closer bond with his feline roommate. Actors from the Provincetown, Massachusetts, Tennessee Williams Festival visit Columbus to perform this one-act play during the 100th birthday celebration. Info: Rosenzweig Arts Center, 662.328.2781, or the Heritage Foundation at 800.920.3533. Place: Rosenzweig
Arts Center
All day long, on the playwright's 100th birthday, visitors may enjoy cake and punch in the Welcome Center, Williams's first home. Historic plaques in his honor will be unveiled at Trustmark Bank, now the site of the hospital where Williams was born, and at St. Paul's Episcopal Church where his grandfather Walter Dakin was rector. Info: Welcome Center, 662.328.0222, or the Heritage Foundation at 800.920.3533. Place: Tennessee
Williams Welcome Center
Director Jodie Markell made her film The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond from the last screenplay written by Tennessee Williams before his death in 1983. Markell appears with the film in a Q&A session after its screening. The movie stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans and Ann-Margret. Info: Welcome Center, 662.328.0222, or the Heritage Foundation at 800.920.3533. Place: Malco 8
Cinemas, Highway 45 N.
Saturday, March 26, 2011 The Columbus Arts Council hosts their annual spring fundraising gala on the 100th birthday of the playwright. The party will be based upon themes in the plays of Tennessee Williams and includes an auction. A ticket includes the auction, music, cuisine and libations. Info: Call 662.328.ARTS (2787). Place: The
Rosenzweig Arts Center
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Regional historians including Steve Pieschel, Professor Emeritus of MUW in Columbus, share the true dramas of the remarkable women behind the roles. University of Alabama costume design professor Donna Meester and Barbara Hicks of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival costume shop speak about the art of costume design for these roles and others. Actual costumes and theatrical costume sketches from the worlds of cinema and theatre will be displayed for this event. As a special presentation of the Southern Literary Trail, this program will be shared by Columbus and Demopolis in recognition of the Tennessee Williams Centennial. In Columbus, the program will be presented in St. Paul's Church where the playwright was baptized. Info: Welcome Center, 662.328.0222, or the Heritage Foundation at 800.920.3533. Place: St. Paul's
Episcopal Church
Monday, March 28 to Sunday, April 9, 2011 The Columbus Spring Pilgrimage ranks among the most authentic historic home tours in the South. Columbus has one of the best preserved collections of ante bellum homes with a variety of architectural styles. The tours begin daily at the Tennessee Williams Welcome Center and also include historic churches and the mesmerizing Friendship Cemetery. Info: Welcome Center, 662.328.0222, or the Heritage Foundation at 800.920.3533. Place: Tennessee
Williams Welcome Center and various destinations
Trailfest 2011 is presented in Oxford with the following partners: The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi and Rowan Oak.
Thursday, March 24, to Saturday, March 26, 2011
The Conference is co-sponsored by The University of Mississippi and Square Books. Book signings are always a highlight of the Conference with sessions at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts and the Overby Center on the Ole Miss campus. Info: Square Books, 662.236.2262, and Center for the Study of Southern Culture, 662.915.5993. Place: The
University of Mississippi Click here for complete details and a full page about the Oxford Conference.
Tuesday through Sunday, daily Home to William Faulkner and his family for over 40 years, Rowan Oak was built in 1844 and stands on 29 acres of land just south of the historic Oxford Square. The grounds of the atmospheric home, which has preserved Faulkner's scribbles on the walls of some rooms, are open from dawn to dusk on every day. Info: Rowan Oak, 662.234.3284. Place: Rowan Oak
Saturday, March 26, 2011
On March 26, Dr. Ralph Voss, a Williams scholar and English professor at The University of Alabama, will speak at St. George's Episcopal Church where the playwright's grandfather was rector for 16 years. On March 23, Williams scholar Ken Holditch, author of Tennessee Williams and the South, will address the public and members of the Mississippi Delta Literary Tour at Cutrer Mansion in Clarksdale. The Mansion served as Williams's inspiration for Belle Reeve Plantation in his classic A Streetcar Named Desire. For updates on all Clarksdale events, visit this site or www.coahomacc.edu/williams. Info: 662.621.4157. Place: Various
locations in Clarksdale
Greenwood, Greenville and Clarksdale: The Mississippi Delta Literary Tour, an event of Trailfest 2011, is organized by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at The University Of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford. For all tour information, call tour organizer Jimmy Thomas, also Mississippi Co-Director of the Southern Literary Trail, at 662.915.5993 or via email at jgthomas@olemiss.edu.
Sunday, March 20, to Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Delta quilters will
present their artistic tapestries, accompanied by their songs of
inspiring gospel music. In Greenville, at the
Hebrew
Union Temple, Stuart Rockoff of the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of
Southern Jewish Life will lecture on the
The Delta Tour fee, per person, includes all programs, eight meals and local transportation. The fee does not include lodging at the Alluvian Hotel in downtown Greenwood, but rooms at the Alluvian are available at a discounted rate of $170.00 nightly, plus tax. Call 866.600.5201 and request the "Literary Tour" rate. Places: Greenwood,
Greenville, and Clarksdale Click here for complete details and a full page about the Delta Tour.
Trailfest 2011 is presented in Jackson with the following Trail partners: The Eudora Welty House and Garden and the Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center.
Tuesdays through Fridays, Tours Daily The Eudora Welty House and Garden at 1119 Pinehurst Street is a National Historic Landmark, a member of the Southern Literary Trail, and one of the nation's most intact literary house museums. Welty was at home here for over 76 years. Visitors will see Welty's house as she lived in it and her garden as she planted it. The Welty House garden is an official American Daffodil Society display garden. The Society will host its national convention and show in Jackson from March 10 to 13, 2011. Info: Welty House, 601.353.7762. Place: The Eudora
Welty House and Garden
Thursday, March 25 to Sunday, March 27, 2011 The Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center of Jackson co-sponsors the annual conference at Jackson State University. Special guests include members of the U.S. Senate and Congress who participated in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s in Mississippi. The registration deadline for the Conference is March 15, 2010. Info: Call 601.979.1515 or visit www.mscivilrightsveterans.org. Place: Jackson State
University
Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9 The Center's fifth
annual Creative Arts Festival will salute the 50th anniversary of
the Freedom Rides at Jackson State University. The events include an
essay contest open to high school and college writers. Speakers will
include Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez. The celebrations include
presentations of the visual arts, dance, theatre, oratory and
poetry. Info: Call 601.979.2055. Place: Jackson State
University
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The
Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration has received the 2011
Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Annually the
Celebration showcases literature, history, film and culture. This
year's theme Fields of Dreams: Sports in the South sets the
stage for a four-day look into literature and film from the
sports-obsessed South: football, basketball, baseball, fishing and
even the ancient competitions between southern Native American
tribes. 
the
Humanities.
A
Big Band Concert with songs for Tennessee Williams
"The
Strangest Kind of Romance," a one-act Tennessee Williams play,
featuring actors of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival
Saturday,
March 26, 2011
Saturday,
March 26, 2011
"HAPPY
BIRTHDAY, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS!"
A
stretch of the Tombigbee River from Columbus to Demopolis, Alabama,
sets the stage for two of the greatest roles for actresses in
theatrical history: Amanda in Tennessee Williams's The Glass
Menagerie and Regina in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes.
Amanda was based upon Williams's mother Edwina Dakin of Columbus and
Hellman's grandmother of Demopolis, Sophie Marx Newhouse, was the
model for Regina.
THE
COLUMBUS SPRING PILGRIMAGE OF HOMES
William
Faulkner's "postage stamp of native soil" has become a destination
for writers and literary enthusiasts of all ages. Open to the public
and with many free events, the Oxford Conference for the Book honors
the talents of contemporary and classic writers. The arts and
culture of the South are highlighted. Last year's conference celebrated the work of
artist Walter Anderson. Sessions of various topics and featuring
some of the South's prominent literary scholars continue through the
four day Conference in Oxford and on the Ole Miss campus. All
Conference guests can tour the nearby home of William Faulkner,
Rowan Oak.
TOURS
OF ROWAN OAK, HOME TO WILLIAM FAULKNER
Clarksdale is the
childhood home of Tennessee Williams. The city's plans for his 100th
birthday have escalated into a unique and multi-faceted spring
festival with the support of the Coahoma Community College, Coahoma
County Tourism and the Tennessee Williams Festival, an
internationally-recognized annual celebration of the playwright.
Highlighting Clarksdale's celebration will be a screening of the new
Tennessee Williams documentary, The South is Everywhere,
which will air simultaneously in Europe. The screening at the Delta
Cinema in Clarksdale will be attended by the filmmaker Herbert Krill
of Vienna.
Beginning
this year on the first day of spring, this tour focuses on the
Mississippi Delta's legendary blues, writers and food, along with
the region's tumultuous history. Limited to 40 registrants, the tour
is based in Greenwood with day trips to Trail towns Greenville and
Clarksdale. Literary scholars and writers give talks to tour members
at some of the most unique locations in the United States. Kenneth
Holditch will speak about his friend Tennessee Williams and about
Greenville writer David L. Cohn, author of Where I was Born and
Raised, a meditation on race in the Delta during the 1930s and
1940s. 
Jewish experience in the
Mississippi Delta. Other stops include the B.B. King Museum and
Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Club Ebony in Indianola, and
art gallery Gallery Point Leflore in Greenwood.
THE
EUDORA WELTY HOUSE AND GARDEN
CONFERENCE
OF VETERANS OF THE MISSISSIPPI CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
THE
5th ANNUAL CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL hosted by the Margaret Walker
Alexander Research Center
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