Flannery at 100
Celebrating the 100th birthday of Flannery O'Connor in 2025 is a significant and exciting opportunity for Georgia College & State University (GCSU).
Activities happening around Campus
January 2025
| Date | Event | Time | Location | Details | Registration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/23 | Flannery O'Connor Book Club | 2:00 p.m. | Georgia Writer's Museum | Join us to discuss Brad Gooch’s Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (2009). Read through chapter 3. | |||
| 1/23 | Flannery O'Connor Book Club | 7:00 p.m. | Online (via Zoom) | Join us to discuss Brad Gooch’s Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (2009). Read through chapter 3. | Register to join us on Zoom |
February
| Date | Event | Time | Location | Details | Registration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/4 | Inaugural Southern Gothic Lecture Series | 5:00 p.m. | Museum Education Room/GCSU Campus | Save the Rougarou! . . . and the Wetlands: Cajun Folk Horror and Environmental Activism in America’s Petroleum Sacrifice Zone. Presented by Sara L. Crosby, The Ohio State University. | ||
| 2/13 | Author Book Reading | Andalusia Interpretive Center | Jessica Hooten Wilson, author of Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress, will give a lecture on Flannery O’Connor’s unfinished novel. Plus, book-signing. | |||
| 2/20 | Flannery O'Connor Book Club | 2:00 p.m. | Georgia Writer's Museum | Join us to continue discussing Brad Gooch’s Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (2009). Read through chapter 7. | ||
| 2/20 | Flannery O'Connor Book Club | 7:00 p.m. | Online (via Zoom) | Join us to continue discussing Brad Gooch’s Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (2009). Read through chapter 7. | Register to join us on Zoom | |
| 2/25 | Inaugural Southern Gothic Lecture Series | 5:00 p.m. | Museum Education Room/GCSU Campus | Teresa Goddu, author of Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation, as well as Selling Anti-Slavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America, will present a lecture titled Jesmyn Ward’s Eco-Gothic. |
March
| Date | Event | Time | Location | Details | Additional Information | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3/4 | Author Book Reading | 6:00 p.m. | Museum Education Room/GCSU Campus | Carol Shloss discusses her book-in-progress, Flannery and Regina: The Andalusia Chronicles. Shloss is the former acting professor of English at Stanford University, and is the author of Flannery O’Connor’s Dark Comedies, along with award-winning books about the families of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. | ||
| 3/20 | Flannery O'Connor Book Club | 2:00 p.m. | Georgia Writer's Museum | Join us to continue discussing Brad Gooch’s biography Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (2009). Read chapters 8-10. | ||
| 3/20 | Flannery O'Connor Book Club | 7:00 p.m. | Online (via Zoom) | Join us to continue discussing Brad Gooch’s biography Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (2009). Read chapters 8-10. | Register to join us on Zoom | |
| 3/24 | Singer-Songwriter Workshop with American Folk Musician Sally Jaye | 6:00 p.m. | Advance registration required. | Register to attend workshop | ||
3/25
| Flannery O'Connor's 100th Birthday Celebration | All Day | Andalusia Farm | Celebrate GCSU’s most beloved alumna at the Interpretive Center. Free tours of Andalusia offered all day, with cake and a song at noon. | Open to the public | |
| Flannery at 100 — Hidden Treasures | Andalusia Interpretive Center | This exhibit will showcase artifacts related to O’Connor’s life that have never been shown publicly before. | ||||
| Author Book Reading: Ping Zhu | 1:00 p.m. | Andalusia/Zoom | Illustrator for the book The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor. | Open to the public | ||
| Panhandle Slim | 3:00 p.m. | Andalusia/Zoom | Hear from the Savannah-based visual artist on Flannery inspired work. | Open to the public | ||
| Singer-Songwriter Workshop with American Folk Musician Sally Jaye | 6:00 p.m. | Advance registration required | Register to attend workshop | |||
| 3/26 | Flannery the Visual Artist | 9:00 a.m. | Magnolia Ballroom/GCSU Campus | View a display of newly discovered Flannery artwork from throughout the different stages of her life. Free and open to the public! After this showing, the art will be on display in the Interpretive Center for the rest of the year. | ||
| O'Connor's Other Art | 4:00 p.m. | Magnolia Ballroom/GCSU Campus | Lecture by Robert Donahoo, Sam Houston University, on O’Connor’s visual art. | |||
| Singer-Songwriter Workshop with American Folk Musician Sally Jaye | 6:00 p.m. | Advance registration required. | Register to attend workshop | |||
| 3/27 | Shawn Mullins Concert with Opening Act Sally Jaye | 5:30 p.m. | Andalusia Farm | Ticketed event, $40 per ticket. Attendees can bring their own blanket, chairs and picnic. | Purchase concert tickets | |
| 3/28 | Songwriters Intensive Showcase | 6:00 p.m. | Birdhouse Theatre | Culmination of the singer-wongwriter workshop sessions taking place Monday through Wednesday. The participants and Sally Jaye will perform at Blackbird Coffee in downtown Milledgeville. | Open to the public | |
| 3/28 | Film Friday: Wildcat | Panel at 8:00 p.m. Film at 8:30 p.m. | Russell Auditorium/GCSU Campus | Free and open to the public, this is the culmination of the singer-songwriter workshop sessions taking place Monday through Wednesday. The participants and Sally Jaye will perform at event co-host Blackbird Coffee, in downtown Milledgeville. | Open to the public | |
| 3/29 | Saturday with a Songwriter | 10:00 a.m. | Andalusia Farm | Family-friendly music event with Sally Jaye | Open to the public | |
| Andalusia Music Festival | 10:00 a.m. | Andalusia Farm | Colin Cutler and Hot Pepper Jam, of GCSU’s Music Department, plus Sally Jaye and special guest Rob Sumowski will perform. Free and open to the public! | Open to the public | ||
| 100th Birthday Celebration | 12:00 p.m. | Andalusia Farm | Enjoy food trucks, birthday cake and free tours from noon to 4 p.m. | Free and open to the public! (Food for purchase from food truck vendors) |
April
| Date | Event | Time | Location | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/17 | Flannery O'Connor Book Club | 2:00 p.m. | Writer's Museum in Eatonton, GA | Join us to discuss O’Connor’s famous essay “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction.” | ||
| 4/17 | Flannery O'Connor Book Club | 7:00 p.m. | Online (via Zoom) | Join us to discuss O’Connor’s famous essay “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction.” |
May (Lupus Awareness month)
| Date | Event | Time | Location | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/15 | Flannery O'Connor Book Club | 2:00 p.m. | Writer's Museum in Eatonton, GA | Join us to discuss Flannery O’Connor’s Introduction to the Memoir of Mary Ann, about which O’Connor said “nobody will ever understand me unless they read this essay.” | ||
| 5/15 | Flannery O'Connor Book Club | 7:00 p.m. | Online (via Zoom) | Join us to discuss Flannery O’Connor’s Introduction to the Memoir of Mary Ann, about which O’Connor said “nobody will ever understand me unless they read this essay.” |
Ina Dillard Russell Library
The Ina Dillard Russell Library continues to display letters and artifacts from O’Connor’s life in the Rare Books Room.
Historic Museums
Historic Museums continues to showcase the life of O’Connor at Andalusia Farm. The Interpretive Center at Andalusia will continue to feature rotating exhibitions of the historic property. You can schedule a tour by visiting the link below.
The Cline House
The Cline House will undergo renovations which will allow for public engagement within the historic home. The Cline House will become the new home of the GCSU Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities.
The O'Connor Book Club
The O’Connor Book Club has individuals from all across the globe, including Japan, Italy, and Mexico. Engagement through technology will continue to reach diverse populations on a global scale.
Wildcat
Efforts are underway to bring Wildcat¸ the new film about O’Connor’s life in Milledgeville during her most prolific writing period to campus. The goal is to show the film to the student body with a question-and-answer period from Director Ethan Hawke and star Maya Hawke.
** Photo Used with Permission from Oscilloscope Laboratories
