Mississippi Public Broadcasting will host a special screening event in Jackson on Thursday, July 27, at 6 p.m. for the new PBS series “Southern Storytellers.” The series, airing this month, highlights several artists from the South, including Mississippi natives Angie Thomas, Natasha Trethewey and Jesmyn Ward.
In addition to the screening, the event will feature two well-known local storytellers – Talamieka Brice and Lauren Rhoades. The public is invited to attend and enjoy captivating stories from Brice and Rhoades. Eventgoers also will have the opportunity to share their own two-minute story captured on film by MPB’s production crew.
Rhoades is the director of grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission and a host of MPB’s The Mississippi Arts Hour.
Brice is an award-winning artist, photographer and visual storyteller. Brice is CEO for Brice Media and has worked with Kim Kardashian and Cassandra Wilson.
The event is free, but registration is required. It will be held at MPB, located at 3825 Ridgewood Road. Register for the event here.
SOUTHERN STORYTELLERS, a new three-episode series from PBS, Arkansas PBS and award-winning filmmaker Craig Renaud, follows some of the region’s most compelling and influential contemporary creators to the places they call home – the communities that fertilize the stories they tell in books, songs, poems, plays and on screens large and small. The documentary series is airing this month on PBS stations nationwide.