Events

Join us on Thursday, June 11, at 6 p.m. for an America250 celebration of gospel music, freedom, and hope, featuring live performances, storytelling, and a community sing-along. This free event, honoring oral traditions through generations of communities, will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium at the Two Mississippi Museums

Join us on Tuesday, June 16, at 6 p.m. for a book conversation featuring author Eddie S. Glaude Jr. and Michael Morris, director of the Two Mississippi Museums, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums. Glaude’s latest work, America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries, is an exploration of the nation’s legacy

At noon on Wednesday, June 10, Charles Dew, Ephraim Williams Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Williams College, will present an analysis of speeches and letters from state-appointed commissioners who traveled across the South to rally support for disunion, as part of the History Is Lunch series.

At noon on Wednesday, June 3, Eric Hintz, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, will present reflections on regional innovation cultures while highlighting Mississippi’s significant contributions to American industry and innovation, as part of the History Is Lunch series.

Join us on Saturday, June 6, for Discovery Day: Art History, a free family-friendly event highlighting the many forms of artistic expression found across Mississippi and how they shaped the state’s cultural story through a multimedia presentation, hands-on crafts, and a flash tour of the Mississippi Made exhibit.

Join us for a free event featuring a screening of Everlasting: Life and Legacy of Medgar Evers at 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 12, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium at the Two Mississippi Museums. A 60-minute showing of this two hour documentary features interviews with Evers’s family, colleagues, and historians

Join us for a free event featuring a screening of Caravan of Hope at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 21, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium at the Two Mississippi Museums. This 60-minute documentary tells the powerful story of how a Memphis-based radio station, WDIA, and a small Mississippi town

Join us at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians on Thursday, May 21, at 5:30 p.m. for a presentation on identifying regional plants and animal tracks on local nature trails led by Jackie Henne-Kerr, conservation resource biologist and outreach coordinator at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

Join us for Stickball at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 18, at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians. Casey Bigpond, member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, will give a demonstration on the history, equipment, and game play of Native American stickball. This free event will include a hands-on demonstration as well as an opportunity to play. Clothing appropriate for an active outdoor environment is recommended. For more information, call 601-446-6502 or email info@natchezgrandvillage.com.

Celebrate Eudora Welty’s 117th birthday beginning Friday, April 17, at the Eudora Welty House & Garden, with free tours of the Welty House at 9 and 11 a.m. as well as 1 and 3 p.m. The Welty Birthday Bash continues Saturday, April 18, with typewriter poetry by As Told by S.I.R. from 1-3 p.m. and caricature sketches by Joe McKeever from 2-4 p.m.