History center sets Black History Month activities
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Orange County Regional History Center has planned events for Black History Month, including a program saluting Black arts and culture and a book club focusing on “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” a 1937 novel by Eatonville’s Zora Neale Hurston.
The museum, located in downtown Orlando, will host a free program called “Celebrating Black Arts & Culture” 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Feb. 18. Among the activities will be living-history presentations and readings by members of Page 15, a youth empowerment group, and Valada Flewellyn, a Central Florida historian and poet.
On Feb. 16, the history center will launch its quarterly book club called Reading Through History. The first session will feature Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” book from 6-7:30 p.m. when participants will talk about their experiences reading the novel, ask questions and share their impressions.
The history center’s next Home School Days session will be 1-3 p.m. Feb. 10. It will focus on the Harlem Renaissance, the Black cultural movement that influenced art, music and literature in the 1920s and ‘30s. Hurston was a key figure and writer in the Harlem Renaissance.
For more information, go to thehistorycenter.com/events.
