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2026 ZORA! Festival Placemaking Conference
Visual and Performing Arts Conference
A two-day multi-disciplinary convening where scholarship, art, and community intersect to explore Zora Neale Hurston’s enduring cultural impact, focusing on her work’s relation to communal spaces and places. Theme: “Entering the Zoraverse: People, Places, Spaces”.
Includes keynote addresses, scholarly panels, performances, sensory experiences, networking reception, and virtual sessions. Emphasizes Hurston’s multi-disciplinary influence on American literary culture, with focus on Eatonville as an embodiment of African American Dream and culture. Features experts in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism such as Dr. Eric Glover and Dr. Michelle Cowin Gibbs.
Topics & Focus Areas
Zora Neale Hurston’s work and placemakingAfrican American culture and dreamLiterary and anthropological legacyPerformance and Black theatreDramaturgyDramatic criticismHeritage spaces and Black speculative practice
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