Community Calendar

Join us for a free screening of Charlotte Seven, a powerful documentary following Rev. Dr. Julia Robinson Moore and community leaders as they restore dignity to forgotten African American burial grounds in Charlotte. This 25-minute film reveals how honoring the past can heal the present and help us build a better future together.

Filmed over four years as part of the Pathways For Peace Project, Charlotte Seven highlights the hidden legacies of historic Charlotte churches. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A panel and community reflection.

All are welcome. Bring a friend.

Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025
Time: 7:00–8:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:00)
Location: Providence Presbyterian Church
Cost: Free (RSVP requested)
RSVP: https://givebutter.com/charlotteseven
Light refreshments provided.

"The Invented Indigenous Histories of Appalachian Show Caves"
Dr. Chelsea Fisher, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina

Show caves – caves operated as commercial attractions - have been a fixture of Appalachian tourism since the nineteenth century. In this talk, Dr. Fisher will examine Appalachian show caves as a technology of colonialism, which extended principles of terra nullius (“nobody’s land”) underground by casting caves as empty wastes and then filling them with settler fantasies about Indigenous culture and history. Through an exploration of Gilded Age and Victorian-era show cave guidebooks, souvenirs, literature, and other memorabilia, Fisher will show how seemingly innocuous tourist traps reproduce settler fantasies, and discuss how expelling these fantasies can make room for the restoration of anti-colonial and Indigenous histories to subterranean realms.

Presented in person and virtually. To attend via Zoom, register via this link: https://bit.ly/4kTlxXF