Past Events from January 6, 2023 – March 3, 2023 › Museum › – Page 2 – The Birthplace of Country Music
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NEW! Museum Story Time!

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

Join us in the museum's Learning Center for our new monthly Museum Story Time program! Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will come together on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two, and a related activity or coloring sheet. This month's book is Coat of Many Colors written by Dolly Parton and illustrated by Brooke Boynton-Hughes.

Film Screening — Seizing Justice: The Greensboro Four

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

Join us for a FREE screening of the Smithsonian Channel documentary Seizing Justice: The Greensboro Four, which tells the story of four African American college students who began a nonviolent sit-in at a Woolsworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and started a revolution.

Film Screening and Discussion – The Green Book Guide to Freedom

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

Join us for a FREE screening of the Smithsonian Channel documentary The Green Book Guide to Freedom, an exploration of a travel guide to navigate the sometimes treacherous highways of a segregated nation. The film screening witll be followed by a discussion about local and regional Green Book sites.

Film Screening – Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

Join us for a FREE screening of the Smithsonian Channel documentary Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier, which explores the untold story of the decades-long battle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be the first superpower to bring diversity to the skies, told by the Black astronauts and their families who were part of this little known chapter of the Cold War.

NEW! Museum Story Time: The Little Black Truck

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will come together on the first Friday of each month for a music or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two, and a related activity or coloring sheet.

Square Dance at the Museum

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

Time to 'do si do!' You're invited to a square dance at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum!

NEW! Museum Story Time: Cowboy Dreams

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will come together on the first Friday of each month for a music or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two with WBCM Radio Bristol's Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet.