This celebration will run from 12 noon to 5pm.

The show starts at 1pm with our speaker, Michael Honey.

We then will continue with a presentation of Heather Carawan's film, The Telling Takes Me Home, the story of Guy and Candie Carawan, activists and folk singers who have carried their work from the deep south of the Civil Rights Movement into today's daunting struggle for peace. Interweaving past and present, the filmmaker integrates her own reflections on growing up in a rich musical and political landscape with her parents' views on race relations, community organizing, and the sustaining power of song.

After the film, we will have a very special personal appearance and performance by Guy and Candie Carawan, who, for about forty years, have devoted their lives to music making, collecting and spreading songs, documenting cultural expression, organizing traditional music festivals and designing workshops with the goal of empowering participants to learn and inspire others in their own communities. They have raised two chldren while living on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina, finding themselves at the forefront of the civil rights movement, and living and soaking up the culture of Appalachia -- all while Guy maintained a folk music performing career. They come to their work with a strong social conscience, a love of music and with the knowledge that music and other cultural expression is often the very brick that builds bridges between communities.

After their performance, we will have an opportunity for a group discussion with Mike, Guy, Candie and Heather, about the civil rights movement, the role of music, the struggle for peace, and struggling to organize effective action in the modern world.

The Highlander Research and Education Center has been located near New Market, Tennessee, for 75 years.  The center has been involved in labor, civil rights, immigration, and a host of other issues since its inception.  For more information please visit http://www.highlandercenter.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_Research_and_Education_Center.

Michael Honey teaches African-American, Ethnic and Labor Studies and American History.  He is a full professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma (UWT).  For more information about Mike, please visit http://faculty.washington.edu/mhoney/.

Heather Carawan is an independent filmmaker, writer and college professor based in Midland, Washington.  For more information about Heather, please visit http://www.heatcar.com/.

Guy Carawan is an American folk musician, and has served as Music Director and Song Leader for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee.  He is famous for introducing the protest song "We Shall Overcome" to the American Civil Rights Movement.  For more information about Guy, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Carawan.  For an audio entry from "All Things Considered" about the history of the song "We Shall Overcome", featuring Pete Seeger, Guy and Candie Carawan, and Dr. Bernice Johnson-Reagon, one of the founding members of the Freedom Singers, please visit http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1031839.

For more information about Guy and Candie Carawan, please visit http://digitalstudio.ucr.edu/studio_projects/carawan/default.html.