Friday, April 20 from 12:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.

and Saturday, April 21 from 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Panel sessions, academic paper presentations and an original poetry reading by Dr. Linda Brown, Willa B. Player Distinguished Professor of Humanities, titled “I Pray God Gonna Read My Quilt” begins Friday. Bennett College president Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole will present the Plenary Roundtable: Understanding Faith in the Context of Transition—Women Telling Their Stories on Saturday. The conference brings scholars, activists, spiritual leaders and communities together to discuss women’s relocation experiences from diverse faiths and cultures, and provides participants with an open dialogue question and answer session. This event is FREE and open to the public. Register at www.Bennett.edu; see ‘Special Events’ and click ‘New & Events’ to get a registration form. The Ford Foundation is a proud sponsor.

Panel Sessions:
•Survival, Immigration, and Faith:’ Personal Reflections on Women’s Immigration/Migration Experiences;
•Documenting Im/migration in the Lives of Women; and
•Journeying Out of ‘Darkness’: Literary Reflections on Women, Religion and Transition

Spoken Word Performance, Film and Workshop Panels
•Screening of The Shape of Water (a documentary on women and globalization)

Only pre-registrants can be guaranteed space, should seating space become limited.
First 150 registrants will receive a special Summit souvenir bag.

Friday 5-9 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.he Twelfth Annual Charlie Poole Music Festival is scheduled for June 8-10 at the Eden Fairgrounds on Oakland Avenue/Old Hwy 87 in Eden, North Carolina. Friday evening’s concert features the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Uncle Earl, and many others. Competitions scheduled all day Saturday, with Wayne Henderson in concert later. Contests include Junior and Senior divisions vying for $5000 in cash prizes and ribbons in old-time and bluegrass fiddle, flatpick and fingerstyle guitar, clawhammer and bluegrass banjo, bluegrass and old-time band, best rendition of a Charlie Poole song, duet singing, and $500 grand prize for old-time three-finger banjo. Sunday tours of Charlie Poole’s hometown, historic Eden. Campers and RVs welcome. Food and other vendors. Schedules, ticket and camping information posted online at www.charlie-poole.com.

Tickets (for spectators or competitors) are $10 for Friday; $10 for Saturday or $15 for a Weekend Pass. Children 12 and under are admitted free. Campsites (tents and RVs) $10 per night, $20 maximum charge for the festival.