Christmas the way it used to be with friends, family, and community. Christmas when it was about sharing and giving rather than buying. Christmas when we sing and tell stories together. That’s Christmas in Appalachia at the Appalshop, returning on Friday, December 18 at 7 PM. The free event will be a community celebration in the Appalshop Theater at 91 Madison Avenue in Whitesburg, Kentucky.

Come join your friends and neighbors and Appalshop and Roadside Theater artists for an evening of traditional songs, stories, and performances of the season.

Donations of non-perishable food and personal items for the Letcher County Food Pantry will be accepted at the door.

For more information: call 606-633-0108 or email info@appalshop.org.

Appalshop filmmakers Mimi Pickering and Anne Lewis will screen segments from their work-in-progress documentary ³Anne Braden: Southern Patriot² at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Louisville at the Marriott Downtown on Friday Nov. 6 at 5 pm.

The filmmakers will be joined by scholars: Catherine Fosl, University of Louisville Professor and author of the Braden biography "Subversive Southerner; Jacqueline Dowd Hall, Professor of History and Director of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and J. Blaine Hudson, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville. Panelists will engage the audience in a discussion on Braden¹s life and legacy and how best to represent her contributions to the long civil rights struggle in a documentary film.

For more information, please visit uga.edu/sha/meeting.