Category Archives: Gullah/Geechee Events
WEBE Wakanda: Gullah/Geechee & Technology with Queen Quet
Join Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation at the Gullah/Geechee Angel Network’s “Tech Up Step Up” program as she presents “WEBE Wakanda: Gullah/Geechee & Technology.” Come out and bring the family on Saturday, May 12, 2018 from Noon to 3 pm to the Lowcountry Alliance of Model Communities (LAMC).
Sandy Island 1st Annual Community Cultural Event
Sandy Island Gullah Geechee Legacy & Development will host its 1st Annual Community Cultural Event on Saturday, May 12, 2018 from 9 am to 5 pm. The featured speakers will be St. Helena Island natives, Ron Daise and Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation. Queen Quet will present at Noon for this fundraiser.
Gullah/Geechee Bike & Beauty 2018
For the second year in a row, the St. Helena Island Community Market family will honor the history of the Black bikers and pay tribute to them at “Gullah/Geechee Bike & Beauty.” This family friendly biker event in celebration of “Biker Month” takes place on Saturday, May 5, 2018 from 10 am to 3 pm. Gullah/Geechee cuisine and items will be on sale while we Biker Shuffle and party to the mix by DJ Kwame Sha of All Mobile Productions™ (AMP™).
Lady’s Island Planning Continues @GullahGeechee
Last year’s Designing Lady’s Island forum and report was the start of a citizen-driven planning process to realize your vision for the community. Next week, please drop-in to continue shaping the future of Lady’s Island @GullahGeechee.
Public Hearings and Public Health in the Gullah/Geechee Nation
The Gullah/Geechee Nation is participating in National Public Health Week along with others throughout the United States April 2-8, 2018. “Changing Our Future Together” requires an understanding of the various ways that we can support improving public health. Each day of #NPHW has a different focus ranging from behavioral health and communicable diseases to injury and violence prevention and access to ensuring the right to health care and environmental health. The Gullah/Geechee Nation has placed emphasis on the latter of the categories for the week given that improving and maintaining environmental health especially of the waterways. Water quality, seafood safety and human health are the central focus of the work of the Gullah/Geechee Sustainability Think Tank. This is a priority because without a healthy Gullah/Geechee Nation environment, the citizens will not be healthy.
Gullah/Geechee Nation Springs into Saturday Celebrations!
Cum jayn de Gullah/Geechee Famlee een GA and SC disya April ebee Satdee! The Gullah/Geechee Nation will be welcoming guests from all over the world this April as they host these annual spring celebrations each Saturday.
De Conch fa de Fuss Paat Ob 2018
De Conch is the international ezine of de Gullah/Geechee Nation. Ef bout we hunnuh wan kno, den yeddi de conch da blo! Gwine ya fa yeddi bout what gwine on.
Gullah/Geechee Gold Rice Festival on Historic St. Helena Island, SC
Queen Quet is returning to Trinidad and Tobago in March on the “Save the Sea Islands World Tour” in order to provide a keynote address at the “TnT International Hill Rice Symposium” where she delivered a keynote in 2016. From there, she will return to her home island to host the “Gullah/Geechee Gold Rice Festival” in conjunction with the St. Helena Island Community Market on Saturday, April 7, 2018 from 10 am to 3 pm at the Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Park at the intersection of Highway 21/Sea Island Parkway and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive on St. Helena Island, SC in the Gullah/Geechee Nation. This event that is being sponsored by the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, St. Helena Island Community Market, and All Mobile Productions™ (AMP™) is FREE and open to the public, but they do request that attendees obtain passes on EventBrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gullahgeechee-gold-rice-festival-tickets-33639130545.
Gullah/Geechee Land Movement Marches On!
Just as the March winds truly blew in dipping temperatures in the Gullah/Geechee Nation, the Gullah/Geechee family stayed warm by coming together at a number of activities. Not only is March, Gullah/Geechee Volunteer Month which takes folks out into the community to help with environmental projects and assist elders and institutions, March was a time for marching on to fight for the coast as well. To that end, Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition and Gullah/Geechee Fishing Association members started off the month fighting for their coast…
Queen Quet of the Gullah/Geechee at Maroon Cultural Day featured by Audubon
Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) is an alumni of Toyota TogetherGreen with Audubon. She participated in the second annual Maroon Cultural Day at Beilder Forest along with members of the Gullah/Geechee Fishing Association. During the celebration, she was asked to discuss her work with Gullah/Geechee SEA & ME which is an environmental engagement and sustainability program that she continues to lead at the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition and which is supported by the Gullah/Geechee Sustainability Think Tank.
