CompassionCon Greensboro is a part of the Springtime one day, multi-city event throughout Georgia, centering on the viral nature of compassion when our communities prioritize our common humanity and interdependence. This interactive festival-like conference will uplift the positive impact compassion has on our social and community contexts of holistic health and wellness with a spotlight on Mental Health. CompassionCon will develop awareness, education, and action around compassion for self, others, and the Earth. The goal is to help people realize that we must care for each other and build communities around a culture of care that supports everyone’s wellbeing. CompassionCon is an opportunity to celebrate our interconnectedness while we build healthier communities together. The festival will include music and art, wellness activities, food trucks, blood pressure testing, HIV testing, covid vaccines, as well as the distribution of diapers and hygiene products.
We invite you to be a sponsor, a vendor, a volunteer and to help us spread the word!
The Greene County African American Museum is dedicated to the empowerment of and truth-telling about African American lives in Greene County, Georgia. The Museum is designed to inspire clarity of heart and mind by sharing all the important contributions and stories of Greene County’s African American community throughout its history to the present day.
So many people are talking about the importance of supporting, listening to and following Black women in rural areas in this country. My name is Mamie Hillman and I’m asking you to step up. After 25 years of organizing, I have opened the Greene County African American Museum, dedicated to the empowerment of and truth-telling about African American lives in Greene County, Georgia. We are doing the work of giving hope to our young people. I invite you to invest in bring my dream to inspire generations of African Americans in rural Georgia. In 1995, I had a vision to establish a center that honors the lives and legacy of African Americans in rural Georgia and Greene County specifically – the women and men on whose shoulders we stand who gave their lives so that one day Black people would be free.
The lives of Black folk in Greene County have inspired artists and scholars for generations.
In the face of centuries of terror and repression, Black people in Greene County have risked their lives to care for one another, tell the truth about the injustice they face, and fight for the flourishing of generations to come. We need the Greene County African American Museum now to uplift the heroes of the past and inspire their descendants to envision and build a future in which all are finally free.