Live entertainment, carnival games & rides, a pie-eating contest, dinners and your favorite sweet potato treats are the highlights of this festival. Ms./Mr./Baby Sweet Potato Festival will also be crowned and there will be a presentation of the scholarship recipients.
This is a family festival with a live auction, parade, beauty pageants, festival rides and games, live entertainment, crafters, vendors, and exhibitors, a cake decorating contest, a cookie decorating contest, and a photography contest. But best of all is our famous collards!! No alcohol is allowed on the festival grounds. This is a clean family festival for all to enjoy!
Heritage Days Celebration is a three-day cultural event celebrating the Gullah/Geechee/Sea Island history, folk arts, food, music, crafts and West African cultural legacy. Located at the Penn School, one of the first schools for enslaved Africans on St. Helena Island, visitors can experience the unique setting of the 50-acre historic campus of Penn Center. Special events for the weekend include demonstrations of the West African/ Gullah cultural connection including bateau making, quilting, basket making and net making; live demonstrations of rice production in an authentic rice shack; Gullah storytellers; singers; African drummers; dancers; gospel singers; a craft fair; a parade; and fun fuh de chillun (fun for the children). This year's theme will be: "HBCU Reunion Weekend - The Homecoming" to celebrate the history of historically Black colleges and universities, many of which originated from freedmen's schools. An educational symposium will feature HBCU presidents and commissioners from the National Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
This delightful festival honors a true southern delicacy, Catfish! Join us for the parade, games, and entertainment, auto, truck and motorcycle show, and 5K run/walk (with prizes). Craft and food vendors, including fried catfish.
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