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Art-i-facts Summer 2022 (May-Aug) Front cover of Art-i-facts Magazine May-Aug 2022 Artwork by Betsy Bohrer

Art-i-facts Summer 2022 (May-Aug)

By PAA Admin on May 15, 2022

Enjoy the online full-screen edition of the Summer (May-Aug) 2022 issue of Art-i-facts magazine/directory by CLICKING HERE, or by clicking the magazine cover below. On...See More

Lakeland Public Library – June Highlights Monthly Highlights June 2022 Jellyfish image

Lakeland Public Library – June Highlights

By PAA Admin on May 27, 2022

Check out What's Happening at the Library in June (mailchi.mp) to learn about what is going on at the Lakeland Public Library, including the Main...See More

Performing Arts Foundation Awards $2,500 Scholarship to Local Dancer, Singer Left-to-Right: Al Finch, Oshea Darrington and Alexis Rocker

Performing Arts Foundation Awards $2,500 Scholarship to Local Dancer, Singer

By PAA Admin on May 18, 2022

Left-to-right: Al Finch, Oshea Darrington, Alexis Rocker. Photo by Robin Phillips of Phillips Photography. The Betsye Kay Finch Performing Arts Foundation awarded its 3rd annual...See More

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The History Center Celebrates Historic Preservation Month

By PAA Admin on May 4, 2022

In 1973, the National Trust for Historic Preservation dedicated the month of May toward promoting historic places in communities nationwide. In Polk County, the declaration...See More

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Water Conservation Art Contest

By PAA Admin on March 20, 2022

Get ready to raid the art supply closet - it's time for the 19th Annual Water Conservation Art Contest! Contest winning art will be featured...See More

Polk Arts Alliance Hires Daryl Ward As Executive Director Headshot of Daryl A Ward

Polk Arts Alliance Hires Daryl Ward As Executive Director

By PAA Admin on February 15, 2022

POLK COUNTY, FL, Feb. 14, 2022 -- Polk Arts Alliance (PAA), the designated Local Arts Agency for Polk County since 2004, is pleased to announce...See More

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Chairside Chats with historians, Dr. Denham and Dr. Brown

Name: Chairside Chats with historians, Dr. Denham and Dr. Brown
Start: 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-11-12T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Online

November 12, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Free

Two chairs in a library with a lamp. Says Chairside Chats with Polk's Pre-Eminent Historians Dr. Carter Brown, Jr & Dr. James M. Denham

Chairside Chats: History’s Local Bounty Revealed
[Live Stream lThu, Nov 12 @ 6 pm]

Florida Southern College’s Center for Florida History and the Lakeland History Room at the Lakeland Public Library proudly present a live conversation between Polk County’s esteemed historians, Drs. James M. “Mike” Denham and Canter Brown, Jr.

Watch live as we pull back the curtain on our shared, surprising, and sometimes spectacular past.

Watch this event live on:

Spectrum channel 643, FiOS channel 43
www.LakelandGov.net/TV
www.YouTube.com/LakelandGov

To submit questions to this discussion or to learn more about our authors’ most-recent works and current projects please contact LuAnn Mims at 863.834.4269
or LuAnn.Mims@lakelandgov.net