Courtesy City of Dallas.
The Oak Cliff Cultural Center will host the Zora Neale Hurston Festival this Saturday.
Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist and documentary filmmaker. She is the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and was the first Black graduate of Barnard College in 1928.
Originally from Alabama, she was involved in the Harlem Renaissance among poet Langston Hughes and singer and actress Ethel Waters, according to the official website of Zora Neale Hurston.
With support from the Zora Neale Hurston Trust, the festival sessions of storytelling, art, workshops and live music will take place from noon to 6 p.m. on Jan. 10. Books and refreshments will be available throughout the festival with an art exhibit by VET up through Jan. 24.
Here is the full schedule for events:
12 p.m.: Ashley Jordan, We Form Creatives and Alex tha Great, Right2Write Slam Poetry Festival in conversation (VIRTUAL via Instagram Live)
12:30 p.m.: Ashley Jordan, We Form Creatives and  Lois J. Hurston Gaston, Ph.D., a grandniece of Zora Neale Hurston and a veteran public school and community college educator in conversation (VIRTUAL via Instagram Live)
1 p.m.: Spoken Notes Workshop by Linda Jones (IN-PERSON)
3:30 p.m.: Iv Amenti, creative social practitioner (IN-PERSON)
4:30 p.m.: Bandan Koro, African drum and dance ensemble (IN-PERSON)
5:30 p.m.: Len Barnett and Cathy Whiteman of Percussion Things will share stories and rhythms from cultures around the world in a program full of hands-on participation (IN-PERSON)
