Byrds of a Feather Film Screening at the Rood Center - March 24th!
1 of 3 free community events to complement the current Art in Public Spaces exhibition, We Are Not Strangers Here: African American Histories in Rural California
EVENT DETAILS:
Byrds of a Feather, The story of Charlie Byrd, California's first Black Sheriff from Weed, California – Film Screening with filmmaker, Autie Carlisle
March 24th, 5-7pm
at the Rood Center
950 Maidu Ave, Nevada City
A free event showing a 34-minute documentary about Charlie Byrd, California's first Black Sheriff from Weed, California, and discussing ideas of belonging through personal storytelling with filmmaker, Autie Carlisle. Carlisle, an Upstate California Creative Corps grantee, is a self-trained documentary filmmaker from Mount Shasta, California. Through her current docuseries, Shasta Stories – with an emphasis on short profiles that help bring communities together – Carlisle turns her lens towards the voices less represented in Siskiyou County, strengthening empathy and creating awareness.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:
Autie Carlisle is a self-trained documentary filmmaker from Mount Shasta, California with an emphasis on short profiles that help bring communities together. She switched careers after 15 years working as a fashion designer and moved back to her rural hometown to help strengthen empathy and create awareness for the voices less represented in Siskiyou County through her current docuseries, Shasta Stories.
ABOUT WE ARE NOT STRANGERS HERE:
On display at the Rood Center: January 31 - April 18, 2025
While it is widely recognized that many Black people who migrated to California moved into booming cities, African Americans are not strangers to rural California. Rural Black residents opened schools, worked the land, and exercised vigilance about the equal rights of citizens. Over successive migrations in the 19th and 20th-centuries, generations settled in agricultural and rural areas from as far north as Siskiyou County, to the Central Valley, to the Imperial Valley in the South. The traveling exhibition by Exhibit Envoy features these stories and Nevada County Arts Council has collaborated with the Historical Society and the Historical Commission to shine a light on figures from the local community.
We Are Not Strangers Here is a collaboration between the Cal Ag Roots Project at the California Institute for Rural Studies; Susan Anderson of the California African American Museum; the California Historical Society; Exhibit Envoy; and Dr. Caroline Collins from UC San Diego. This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the 11th Hour Project at the Schmidt Family Foundation. It is presented by Nevada County Arts Council in partnership with the County of Nevada and Nevada County Historical Society.
ABOUT ART IN PUBLIC SPACES:
Art in Public Spaces is a new program of Nevada County Arts Council in partnership with the County of Nevada. Together, we present quarterly displays at the Rood Center, 950 Maidu Avenue, Nevada City.
Art in Public Spaces is a pilot program through which we are developing a process of engagement and selection in tandem with the County and our community.