Workshop will be held twice over the last two weeks of July 2024.
Weekly Schedule
JULY 14TH — JULY 20TH
First Workshop
JULY 21ST — JULY 27TH
Second Workshop
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Introductory session and lecture at the National Blues Museum concert space—the Legends Room
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Guided tour of National Blues Museum
Performance by local blues musicians
Walking tour of downtown St. Louis
Lecture and breakout sessions
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Tour of the Griot Museum of Black History
Driving/walking tour of the Ville neighborhood (Sumner High School, Homer G. Phillips Hospital)
Educator lecture and breakout sessions
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Tour of the House of Miles East St. Louis - Miles Davis’s childhood home
Tour of the Katherine Dunham Museum (dancer, educator, and activist)
Breakout sessions at National Blues Museum
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Visit to Harris-Stowe State University, an HBCU with historic ties to the since-demolished Mill Creek Valley neighborhood
Lecture from radio host, educator, and musician Bernie Hayes—director of Harris-Stowe’s Wolff Jazz Institute and President of the Black Radio Hall of Fame
Driving tour of the former Mill Creek Valley and the former site of Pruitt-Igoe public housing
Lecture and breakout sessions at the National Blues Museum
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Presentation by Missouri Historical Society researcher
Archival research project using the collection
Culminating lesson plan and teaching philosophy statement built off of primary source
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Final, retrospective session
Award ceremony handing out certificates of completion