Workshop will be held twice over the last two weeks of July 2024.

Weekly Schedule

JULY 14TH — JULY 20TH

First Workshop

JULY 21ST — JULY 27TH

Second Workshop

    • Introductory session and lecture at the National Blues Museum concert space—the Legends Room

    • Guided tour of National Blues Museum 

    • Performance by local blues musicians

    • Walking tour of downtown St. Louis

    • Lecture and breakout sessions

    • Tour of the Griot Museum of Black History

    • Driving/walking tour of the Ville neighborhood (Sumner High School, Homer G. Phillips Hospital)

    • Educator lecture and breakout sessions

    • Tour of the House of Miles East St. Louis - Miles Davis’s childhood home

    • Breakout sessions at National Blues Museum

    • Tour of the Gateway Arch

    • Visit to Harris-Stowe State University, an HBCU with historic ties to the since-demolished Mill Creek Valley neighborhood

    • Lecture from radio host, educator, and musician Bernie Hayes—director of Harris-Stowe’s Wolff Jazz Institute and President of the Black Radio Hall of Fame

    • Driving tour of the former Mill Creek Valley by Vivian Gibson

    • Lecture and breakout sessions at the National Blues Museum

    • Presentation by Missouri Historical Society researcher

    • Archival research project using the collection

    • Culminating lesson plan and teaching philosophy statement built off of primary source

    • Final, retrospective session

    • Award ceremony handing out certificates of completion