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Sarah Bird "Soul Circuit: Juneteenth Rodeos in Texas"

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Sarah Bird "Soul Circuit: Juneteenth Rodeos in Texas"
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Location:
The Wittliff Collections
Alkek Library, 7th floor; 7th floor
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Michael Harrison
mh43@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
The Wittliff Collections
Join us for a talk by Austin writer Sarah Bird who will speak about her award-winning photography book, Juneteenth Rodeo. Bird’s photographs offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos in the late 1970s. The event will be followed by a book signing. Books will be for sale at the event. 
 
This event is in support of our exhibition of Bird’s photographs, Soul Circuit: Juneteenth Rodeos in Texas, organized by Humanities Texas.  Click here for more information
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Videos of the Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary Series readings can be viewed on the site for Texas State's literary journal, Front Porch.