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Underground History Film Screening

Name: Underground History Film Screening
Start: 2025-02-18T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-18T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Eckerd College

February 18 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Underground History explores the diverse histories of Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg, from the archeological remnants of ancient Indigenous villages to settlements of freedom seeking people, Cuban fishing ranchos, displaced African American communities and erased cemeteries. Each story reveals a layer of history and how they are connected by colonization. “Underground History” poses the question, if a community fully acknowledge its past, can it develop a deeper sense of place and a more equitable future?

Prior to the event, there will be an Exploring Local Heritage Fair with cultural, social, and historical community resource information tables.

This event will premiere a new, expanded version of ‘Underground History,” a documentary which explores the connections between St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay’s diverse cultural history and emerging community efforts to acknowledge that past. The community conversation will provide an opportunity for discussion with the filmmakers and project advisors, as well as an exploration of ideas for on-going engagement in community efforts around St. Petersburg’s history, archeology, cultural heritage and social justice.

Free and open to the public

Location: Miller Auditorium, Eckerd College campus

Moderator: Beverly Warren, Ph.D., Vice President for Inclusive Excellence at Eckerd College

Presenters:
*John W. Arthur, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida St. Petersburg and Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education (AWIARE)
*Uzi Baram, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, New College
*Amanda Hagood, Ph.D., Animal Studies Instructor, Eckerd College and Co-Director, Eckerd Gulf Scholar Program
*Gwendolyn Reese, President, African American Heritage Association

Filmmakers:
Polita Glynn, Producer/director
Devin Rice ’86, Cinematographer/Editor/Graphics/ Music composer

Part of the College Program Series.

Funding for this screening and discussion program is provided in part through a Florida Humanities Community Project Grant with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and in partnership with Merfolk Media Alliance. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Presented by the Eckerd College Gulf Scholars Program, Coalition of Students for Indigenous Action, Eckerd College Office of Inclusive Excellence, and St. Petersburg Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center in association with Merfolk Media Alliance.