Southern Storytellers Featurette
Join WSRE PBS at the Voices of Pensacola for a celebration of the new PBS docuseries “Southern Storytellers” featuring a Southern bites reception, preview screening and writers’ round featuring local creatives from the Pensacola Songwriter Rounds Series.
Date and time:
Friday, July 14 • 5:30pm – 8pm CDT
Location:
Voice of Pensacola
117 E Government Street
Pensacola, FL 32502
About this event:
Join WSRE PBS at the Voices of Pensacola for a celebration of “Southern Storytellers” — a new documentary series that follows some of the South’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.
Among the film’s featured creatives are some of the most recognized storytellers from the worlds of literature, music, television and film, including authors Jesmyn Ward, Michael Twitty, Angie Thomas and David Joy; poets Jericho Brown and Natasha Trethewey; songwriters Jason Isbell, Thao Nguyen, Lyle Lovett, Tarriona “Tank” Ball, Adia Victoria, Amanda Shires and Justin Moore; songwriter/screenwriter/actor Billy Bob Thornton; songwriter/actor Mary Steenburgen; and screenwriters Qui Nguyen and Michael Waldron.
In advance of the series premiere, WSRE PBS will host a FREE PREVIEW SCREENING & WRITERS’ ROUND starting at 5:30pm with a Southern bites reception. Following the half-hour film screening, local artists from the Pensacola Songwriter Rounds Series — Greg Bond, Katie Dineen, Faithe Franklin and Devan Sean— will perform, sharing their own Southern stories through their songs.
Admission is free. Registration is requested as seating is limited.
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