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Lisa Rivers Named Featured Artist for 41st Annual Penn Center Heritage Days Celebration

As part of the 41st Annual Penn Center Heritage Days Celebration, Penn Center will host a Featured Artist Reception with Lisa Rivers on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at 8:00 pm, in the Dr. York W. Bailey Museum at Penn Center on historic St. Helena Island, SC. This elegant evening invites community members, patrons, art lovers, and cultural enthusiasts to come out and:

Meet Lisa Rivers in person

View a curated exhibition of her original paintings

Purchase original works of art (all are for sale)

Enjoy light refreshments and an opportunity for conversation with many of the local Gullah/Geechee family

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Jayn de Gullah/Geechee at de 39th Annual Heritage Days Celebration!

Hunnuh chillun, bring friends and de famlee and jayn we pun historic St. Helena Island, SC November 9-11, 2023! The 39th Annual Heritage Days Celebration will take place at Penn Center, Inc. Come engage in the continuing stand for justice while being a part of one of the largest Black celebrations in the southeast.

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Celebrate Gullah/Geechee Black History

The schedule of “#GullahGeechee2020: Seein Gullah/Geechee Culcha Clearly” events launches with the celebration of Black History Month.

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Historic St. Helena Island, SC Celebrates Heritage!

Historic St. Helena Island, SC in the Gullah/Geechee Nation is one of the last Sea Islands with a contiguous Gullah/Geechee community throughout the entire island.  The people of St. Helena Island have stood for their rights over the eras of time and against the odds that worked to enslave them during the chattel slavery era …

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