Off Campus

The Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities partners with the Georgia Writers Museum and Professor Emeritus Bruce Gentry for a special book club meeting in conjunction with the Smithsonian's "Voices and Votes" traveling exhibit. We'll meet to discuss Alice Walker's story written in response to Flannery O'Connor, primarily in response to the story "Everything That Rises Must Converge." The title of the Walker story is "Convergence: The Duped Shall Enter Last: But They Shall Enter." You...

Come out and enjoy our Georgia College & State University Jazz faculty and friends Tuesday, July 21, 7-9 p.m. at Amici Café, downtown Milledgeville, presented by Jazz at Georgia College. Hosted by Don Parker, the GCSU Jam Session is open to all members of the community who are interested in working on their jazz and improvisation skills. Bring your instrument if you want to play or come just to enjoy the menu and the live music at Amici Café. We hope to see you there!

Come out and enjoy our Georgia College & State University Jazz faculty and friends Tuesday, June 23, 7-9 p.m. at Amici Café, downtown Milledgeville, presented by Jazz at Georgia College. Hosted by Don Parker, the GCSU Jam Session is open to all members of the community interested in working on their jazz and improvisation skills. Bring your instrument if you want to play or come just to enjoy the menu and the live music at Amici Café. We hope to see you there!

Friday, May 15, at 6:30 p.m. Blackbird Coffee, The Birdhouse Theater, 114 W Hancock St., MilledgevilleGeorgia College & State University is pleased to host an evening of poetry with Alice Friman, newly inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and Kerry James Evans, associate professor of English and coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Georgia College. Both poets will read from their recent collections.Alice Friman is the author of eight full-length collections, most...

Students in ANTH 4950 Ethnographic Methods have completed original ethnographic research projects exploring the different ways public spaces in Milledgeville, Georgia, facilitate community building for students and locals. Looking at downtown, the Oconee River Greenway and public libraries specifically, students have studied how activities like karaoke, trivia, maintenance work, dog walking, book clubs and story time bring people together, and the ways in which people create meaning...