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This month we have a beautiful and healing workshop just in time for women’s history month led by Dr. Paulette Richards. You have time to RSVP your seat before we release tickets to the public. As always, the workshop is free and the supplies are included. We hope to see you on March 15th at 2pm!

About the Workshop:  Finding the courage and the confidence to speak the truth of their experience is one of the greatest challenges women must overcome on the path to leadership. Throughout history and across societies all over the world, puppets have enabled people to find a voice and speak truth to power. This workshop uses puppetry to expand participants leadership potential. The workshop will include breathwork and relaxation techniques, a community building activity, discussion of women’s history and a puppet workshop.

About the Workshop Leader: Independent researcher, Dr. Paulette Richards has taught at Georgetown University, Tulane University, and Georgia Tech.  During her time as a 2013/ 2014 Fulbright Scholar in Senegal, she began to focus her multi-disciplinary interest in African Diasporan cultural studies on puppets, masks, and performing objects. Dr. Richards has taught animatronic puppetry workshops at Decatur Makers, the Dekalb County Public Library, the Center for Puppetry Arts, and the Puppeteers of America 2017 National Festival.  During the 2017/2018 academic year she worked for Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Math, and Computing as an Innovator in Residence at Hollis Innovation Academy. 

Meet us at the Hapeville Depot Museum for a workshop which will explore simple electrical circuits and assemble puppets representing six African American Innovators. This workshop can accommodate up to 15 participants ages 6 and up. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Free! Participants will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.

Tickets at https://www.atlcmc.net/

The Atlanta Contemporary Music Collective is a constellation of composers and performers passionate about creating high-quality concerts of eclectic music in unique venues. Through high-quality concerts of eclectic music in unique venues throughout the Metro Atlanta area, their goal is to promote Atlanta as a nationally-recognized center for excellence in New Music.

The Collective recognizes that there is an opportunity to promote the city’s incredibly talented composers and musicians on a national level, and want shows to change the way audiences perceive and interact with New Music on the local level. At its core, the ACMC believes that 1. New Music is about artistically expressing curiosity through sound and that 2. this curiosity is open to everyone. ACMC organizes their seasons around accessible Metro Atlanta venues and community centers to cater to these audiences that are already curious about music, like breweries, churches, makerspaces, and art studios.

Location: Hapeville Depot Museum, 620 South Central Avenue in Hapeville

Seating is now on a first come first serve basis. Do you have an accommodation request? Please email info@hapevilledepot.org

In 1867, less than three years after the Civil War left the city in ruins, Hungarian Jewish immigrant Morris Rich opened a small dry goods store on what is now Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta. Over time, his brothers Emanuel and Daniel joined the business; within a century, it became a retailing dynasty. Join historian Jeff Clemmons as he traces Rich's 137-year history. For the first time, learn the true stories behind Penelope Penn, Fashionata, The Great Tree, the Pink Pig, Rich's famous coconut cake and much more.

Join the Hapeville Depot Museum for a presentation by Hannah Palmer on her new book, The Pool is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim.

Books will be available for purchase via A Capella Books and signing by Hannah Palmer after the talk.

Seating is on a first come, first served basis. For accessibility requests, please email the museum at info@hapevilledepot.org

About the Book: In 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a seemingly all-white swimming pool, she started to worry about how her young sons would learn to swim. Would they grow up accustomed to the stubbornly segregated pools of Atlanta? Was it safe for them to wade in creeks laced with urban runoff or dive into the ever-warming, man-made swimming holes of the South? Should they just join the Y?

But these weren’t just parenting questions. In the South, how we swim—and whether we have access to water at all—is tied up in race and class. As she took her sons pool-hopping across Atlanta, Palmer found an intimate lens through which to view the city’s neighborhoods. In The Pool Is Closed, she documents the creeks behind fences, the springs in the sewers, the lakes that had all but vanished since her own parents learned to swim. In the process, she uncovers complex stories about environmental history, water policy, and the racial politics of public spaces.

Nothing prepared Palmer for the contamination, sewage, and bodies that appear when you look at water too long. Her search for water became compulsive, a way to make sense of the world. The Pool Is Closed is a book about water: where it flows and where it floods, who owns it, and what it costs. It’s also a story about embracing parenthood in a time of environmental catastrophe and political anxiety, of dwindling public space and natural resources. It chronicles a year-long quest to find a place to swim and finding, instead, what makes shared water so threatening and wild.

Join cohosts Civil Bikes and Ryan Harris for an evening book talk:

Are you interested in learning more about the history of property in Atlanta? Join our book read and discussion, The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880- 1950 by Dr. LeeAnn Lands. A phenomenal book that "examines the transition of Atlanta... from a place with little concern with residential segregation...to one marked by extreme concentrations of poverty and racial and class exclusion. From trends in housing and development to policies, law enforcement, and other markers of residential landscapes, Dr. Lands brings a comprehensive understanding of homeownership in Atlanta and beyond.

RSVP Link and  https://form.jotform.com/243023976500149

On Thursday, December 12, at Hapeville Depot Museum and Visitor Center, Canopy Atlanta and Tri-Cities neighbors will gather to celebrate the launch of Canopy Atlanta's Tri-Cities Issue. Residents and reporters, who wrote stories on everything from limited access to health care to abundance of arts outlets, will be on hand to discuss how their stories came to be.

This Issue Launch party will feature a fun interactive Tri-Cities mapping project, local cuisine, discussions about the published stories, and much more.

RSVP Here

Traffic Cams: Create Your Future!

Traffic Cams envisions a more comprehensive public transportation system for the future of Atlanta. A web-based application using traffic camera data will help community members facing transportation challenges and harms, visualize and reflect on a future public transit system with more climate-friendly options.

A 2021 survey found 24,800 cameras in Atlanta, making it the most heavily surveilled city in the US with 50 cameras per 1000 citizens.  While most of these cameras are not publicly accessible, the Georgia Department of Transportation allows access to their camera streaming feeds. 

Using these cameras, TRAFFIC CAMS  aims to show what Atlanta could look like with a more comprehensive public transit system, by creating a real time Augmented Reality experience to help visualize in real-time.  Consequently, the app also shows just how much space is wasted by the current car-centric focus on transportation.  This is accomplished through the use of OpenCV, the GA511.org camera website, and custom software written by Farr.

This project is funded by Smart Growth America through their Healing Our Highways grant program. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kresge Foundation, Healing Our Highways will support creative ideas and activities that build knowledge, connection, and power within disadvantaged communities harmed by transportation systems and climate change.

The workshop hosted by the Hapeville Depot Museum, entails several activities that will prompt attendees to share thoughts and ideas on envisioning a healthier and safer transportation environment in Atlanta. There will be a hand-on crafting activity where attendees actually create their ideal "intersection", based on a video feed from GDOT cameras. The app will then "paint" the image as cars drive by.

 ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Emma Chammah and Eddie Farr are two artists who met via a mutual friend and quickly realized they had many shared interests and skills that complemented each other’s individual practice areas. They have collaborated together on a number of projects that utilize Emma’s skills as an architect/designer/and fabric specialist and Eddie’s skills as a software developer and fabricator. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, they are both committed to building a happier, healthier, and more connected community through their work as artists.

Learn the history and process of transforming chemical compounds into image. The workshop is free and supplies are included. Adult participants are encouraged to bring small objects that remind them of land, home and community. Horacio will discuss his photography and artistic process while guiding participants to make their very own chemigrams to take home.  Seats are highly limited.

RVSP at info@hapevilledepot.org

Join the museum for the opening of all new art exhibit by Kiara Gilbert.

Join us for light refreshments and music as we celebrate ReMerge Art Collective’s newest art show.

Learn about the oft forgotten historic cemeteries located on Hartsfield Jackson Airport. As seen on Atlas Obscura.

Learn the history, tradition and art form of henna.

Instructor: Leigh Ann Culver

RSVP required.

Free and supplies are included.

Join the Hapeville Depot Museum for a fascinating evening history lecture with Jeff Clemmons, the author of “Atlanta’s Historic Westview Cemetery”. Light refreshments will be served. Book purchase and signing will be available. Seats are highly limited. Please email: info@ hapevilledepot.org to secure your seat.

Join the Hapeville Depot Museum for light refreshments as we celebrate a new art exhibit by Leigh Ann Culver.

Join the Hapeville Depot Museum for the Grand Opening of a new exhibition on the Atlanta Assembly Plant. The evening will begin with light refreshments and then guests will be guided through the museum and taken on an in depth tour of the newest exhibition. This event is free and open the public.

This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through funding from the Georgia General Assembly.

Learn the artistic process and insights of artist, Camisha Butler and about her latest show, “Every Thing I Am”

About the show: “Every Thing I Am," examines the significance of physical belongings and their roles as the facilitators of ancestral memory. While societal narratives often urge detachment from material objects, this exhibition delves into the profound connections embedded within them. Memories of loved ones are intricately interwoven in the possessions they once owned leaving behind a tangible collection of distant memories. “Every Thing I Am”  invites viewers to reconsider their own relationship with the personal artifacts that serve as communicators of ancestral ideology and personhood within their own family history.

Join the Hapeville Depot Museum as we celebrate the opening of a new art exhibition with new work by Camisha Butler.

About the show: “Every Thing I Am," examines the significance of physical belongings and their roles as the facilitators of ancestral memory. While societal narratives often urge detachment from material objects, this exhibition delves into the profound connections embedded within them. Memories of loved ones are intricately interwoven in the possessions they once owned leaving behind a tangible collection of distant memories. “Every Thing I Am”  invites viewers to reconsider their own relationship with the personal artifacts that serve as communicators of ancestral ideology and personhood within their own family history.