Center for Creative Partnerships

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10/03/2022

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07/11/2022

If you are around Columbia SC, join us for our next screening and discussion this Wednesday. Discussion moderated by Larry Watson will be streamed here for those who can't make it in person

06/20/2022

This Sunday we'll be at the SLICE short film fest at the Watermelon Festival in Hampton, SC - can't come?? Then look for our Livestream of the discussion here on FB at 2PM!

05/24/2022

Our MELTDOWN IN DIXIE: ENGAGE, EMPOWER, TRANSFORM will not only show the film, Meltdown in Dixie, in 15 counties of SC, but audience discussions streaming here, will inform the development of an action plan based on dialogue. The Grace Impact Development Center in Berkley County is doing the on the ground work to make the June 11 event happen as part of its Root of Soul: J19th Fest for Juneteenth!

05/23/2022

Our MELTDOWN IN DIXIE: ENGAGE, EMPOWER, TRANSFORM project, utilizes Meltdown in Dixie, an award-winning documentary film from Orangeburg native Emily Harrold, about the battle over a Confederate flag flying outside of an ice cream shop in Orangeburg, SC, to encourage critical thinking and social consciousness.

With unusual access to both sides of the fight, the documentary uses the frustration of one small town fighting over Confederate symbols to viscerally evoke the complexity and pain of confronting 400 years of white supremacy.

Although Center for Creative Partnerships has a history of presenting films accompanied by community discussions led by humanities scholars, this project reflects a new initiative through developing collaborations with organizations and communities throughout the state with the intention of continuing these relationships into the future. The first event in Hanahan, SC (Berkley County) will include a discussion after the film to be live-streamed here on our FB page on June 11th.

05/23/2022

In some of these photos from inside the All-Star Triangle Bowl you can see the damage to the false ceiling from the leaky roof. We're so happy that our work to repair the roof and restore this historic property is almost ready to commence. (Photo credit to Leland Kent/published in "Abandoned Southeast")

05/22/2022

Ellen Naomi Zisholtz, our President just arrived in Dallas as a guest at The National Bowling Association's 80th Championship Tournament & 82nd Annual Convention. We didn't know how excited the bowling world would be about our restoration of the All-Star Triangle Bowl at the center of the Orangeburg Massacre as pivotal in the struggle to end segregation in bowling! (Photo by Leland Kent/abandoned Southeast)