Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative

SRBWI Holds 3rd Annual Unita Blackwell Young Women’s Leadership Institute

The 3rd Annual Unita Blackwell Young Women's Leadership Institute was held June 8 - 12, 2007 on the campus of Tougaloo College, a historically Black college near Jackson, Mississippi. Highlights of the 2007 Institute:

2007 Agenda

Introductory Track*

Day 1 – June 8, 2007
Travel to Institute
Registration, Expectations and Introduction to More is Caught than Taught
Cultural Program featuring Paula Larke

Day 2, June 9, 2007
Meeting with Mentors
Morning Meditation
Introductions
Welcome by Tougaloo College President Beverly Hogan
Goal of Institute
Workshops
Media Images and the Impact on Young Black Women’s Sense of Self
Theatre Workshop with Paula Larke
Free Time – Swim
Gloria Winters presents Freedom Summer

Day 3, June 10, 2007
Meeting with Mentors
Morning Meditation
Wellness for Southern Rural Black Women
Dance Workshop and Spoken Word Workshops
Free Time- Swim
Sunni Patterson Spoken Word Performance and Cutno Dance Company presents The History of African American Dance and Song

Day 4, June 11, 2007
Mentor Meetings
Morning Meditation
Building Local Assets Using Local Resources and Partners Mayor’s Commission on Civil Rights
Asset Development Workshops:
Photography, Jewelry Making and Fashion Design
Presentations of video, spoken word, photography and fashion projects
Young Leaders Fun Evening

Day 5, June 12, 2007
Reflections on Institute
Closing Session
Remarks by the Honorable Unita Blackwell, reading from Barefootin’: LifeLessons from the Road to Freedom
Placing of plaque on tree honoring Unita Blackwell
Participants leave to return home

*advanced video and digital film making track will participate in early morning and evening activities.