Events & Programs at the Fleming Museum
**PLEASE NOTE: All Museum Programs will take place at the Fleming Museum**
**Seating is limited for these events. First Come, First Served. Please plan ahead**
September 26: Exhibition Opens (runs until 12/16)
September 28: 5:30-7:30pm @ Fleming Museum
OPENING RECEPTION
September 30, 10am-5pm @ Fleming Museum
WORKSHOP: Indigo Dye Workshop
with Yemisi Ajayi, a textile/fiber artist working within the realm of traditional Yoruba cloth, motifs, and dyeing
Fee: $90 / $75 Museum Members. All materials are provided
Please email fleming@uvm.edu to register.
October 11, 6:00 PM @ Fleming Museum
TALK: Heat and Happiness in the Making of a Haitian Vodou God
with Marie Maude Evans, Chief Priestess (Manbo Asogwe) of the Sosyete Nago Temple Of Jacmel, Haiti, and Mattapan, Massachusetts
October 12 – 5:00 – 7:00 PM @ Fleming Museum
SPECIAL EVENT: Ritual Celebration
with Marie Maude Evans, Chief Priestess (Manbo Asogwe) of the Sosyete Nago Temple Of Jacmel, Haiti, and Mattapan, Massachusetts
October 22, 2:00 PM @ Fleming Museum
SCHOLAR’S TOUR: Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic
Vicki L. Brennan, Assoc. Professor of Religion, UVM
October 25, 6:00 PM @ Fleming Museum
TALK: Why Do the Gods Let This Happen? Vodou in the 21st Century
with Donald J. Cosentino, Professor Emeritus of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California-Los Angeles
November 1, 12:00 PM @ Fleming Museum
TALK: When the Spirit Moves Me: Music and Religion from Africa to the Americas
with Jacob Edgar, Ethnomusicologist and Music Producer
November 15, 6:00 PM
TALK: Thrones of the Gods and Altars of the Soul
with Daniel Rodríguez, Obá-Oriaté of the Santería Religion
December 7, 3:00 PM
TALK: Exhibiting the Sacred:Religion, Race, and Representation
with Vicki Brennan, UVM Professor of Religion and Director of UVM’s African Studies Program; and Students
December 10, 2:00 PM
SCHOLAR’S TOUR: Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic
with Stephen Wehmeyer, Champlain College associate professor in the CORE Division, leads a gallery tour of the exhibition