Gullah Documentarian to Speak March 29-30
Friends Center at Guilford College will welcome Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and ethnographer Althea Sumpter to campus March 29-20.
Sumpter will give the message at the weekly College Meeting for Worship on Sunday, March 29, at 1 p.m. in the Moon Room (located in Dana Auditorium). On Monday, March 30, Sumpter will appear at the “tea and talk” discussion in The Hut at 4 p.m., and will also give a talk entitled "Collecting Life Stories from the Elders in My Culture, Community and Faith” at 7:30 p.m. in the Founders Hall Gallery.
Born into the Gullah community of St. Helena Island, S.C., Sumpter has worked extensively to document what is the most intact West African culture in the United States. She is the former assistant director of media services at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center and is currently a professor of media production at the Art Institute of Atlanta. Sumpter is a member of the Atlanta Friends Meeting.
Sumpter is this year’s Judith Weller Harvey Quaker Scholar, part of Friends Center’s annual speakers series. For more information, call 336-316-2445.
Friends Center at Guilford College is a collaborative endeavor of the College and the Religious Society of Friends to strengthen Friends and their institutions.
March 16, 2009