Saturday November 3, 2018

2:00 p.m. - Fall Color Kayak Tour of Bear Creek Lake      Bear Creek Lake Swim Beach           1.5 hours

Mother Nature knows how to dress for any occasion, but she often saves her most stunning colors for fall.  Of course the scene is always different from year to year and it is hard to predict if or when we will have peak color.  Join a park interpreter to marvel at the splendid colors found in nature as we paddle around Bear Creek Lake.  We will discuss what conditions are necessary to create the best fall colors and what happens the years they are not so great.  All skill levels welcome.  We will cover basic paddling techniques before we get started and make sure everyone is comfortable in their kayak.  Cost is $12 per person.  Everyone must wear a lifejacket at all times.  Space is limited, and pre-registration is required.  Register by calling the visitor center at 870-295-4040

Hosted by Mississippi River State Park

Saturday October 20, 2018

6:15 p.m. - Full Moon Kayak Tour              Bear Creek Lake Swim Beach         1.5 hours

Kayaking is a great way to experience Bear Creek Lake. The almost full moon will rise before the sun sets, giving us the perfect setting to view wildlife along the water’s edge. All skill levels welcome. We will cover basic paddling techniques before we get started and make sure everyone is comfortable in their kayak. All kayakers should have a light on board so please provide your own head lamp or other light device. Cost is $12 per person, bring your own kayak or borrow one of ours.  Everyone must wear a lifejacket at all times.  Space is limited, and pre-registration is required.  Register by calling the visitor center 870-295-4040.

Hosted by Delta Cultural Center

Date: Saturday, October 13
Location: Delta Cultural Center Visitor Center
Time: 10 am- 12 pm

The waterways of the Arkansas Delta have had a wide variety of uses throughout the years,
including its use for transportation during the 1800’s. Meet education coordinator Richard
Spilman at the Delta Cultural Center Visitor Center to discover the uses of steamboats in the
1800’s and early 1900’s. There will also be a children’s steamboat craft. The presentation goes
from 10 am- 10:45 am and the craft goes from 10 am- 12 pm.

It's the last day of the Water/Ways exhibit before it moves on to it's next location.  The exhibit has let us explore the our relationship with water so we thought this would be a good opportunity to give back to the river!  Join us for a clean up of the Sunflower River and closing ceremony of Water/Ways.  

Wear long pants and sleeves you can get dirty!  Trash bags and gloves provided for all participants. 

Hornor Neck Lake is a wetland lake teeming with wildlife making it a perfect place to go kayaking.  There is usually something to see flying in the air, swimming through the water, perched in the trees and nestled in the ground.  We will review paddling techniques but familiarity with paddling is recommended for this tour.  Cost is $12 per person, bring your own kayak or borrow one of ours.  Everyone must wear a lifejacket at all times. Space is limited, and pre-registration is required.  Register by calling the visitor center @ 870-295-4040

Hosted by Coahoma Collevtive

Clarksdale non-profit, Coahoma Collective, will host a panel discussion on the history of access to swimming pools in Clarksdale and the Mississippi Delta and how that impacts current social issues.  The panel includes local residents who were directly impacted by the closing of the Clarksdale swimming pool or who have stories of relatives affected by it and civil rights scholars.

Join Clarksdale artist, John Ruskey for a free watercolor lesson. Hosted by Clarksdale public library.

Join the University of Mississippi's Biology Department to explore the life in the Sunflower River.   We'll have microscopes set up to view plankton and nets for catching fish and macroinvertebrates.  Great experience for learners of all ages!

Hosted by Mississippi River State Park

Storm Creek Lake Swim Beach 1.5 hours

The leaves might not be changing yet, but the temperatures should be a little cooler.  So join a park interpreter for a casual paddle around Storm Creek Lake.  We have seen deer, raccoons, and other wildlife as we explore the coves and observe nature on Crowley’s Ridge.  Cost is $12 per person, bring your own kayak or borrow one of ours.  Everyone must wear a lifejacket at all times.

In 2019, six dancer-athletes comprising “Relay of Voices” will relay run the length of the Mississippi River and make stops in 104 of the cities and towns along the way. In each community they’ll partner up with residents to learn about their individual lives and the community as a whole. Practicing physical remembering, the athletes will use their bodies as their notebooks, storing not only the facts - somebody said this, or did that – but also the feelings, the nuances of what it means to be a body in that place and time. That visit will culminate with a choreographed celebration relaying the river voices already gathered for the community and its people. Relay is diving deep into rural America, as the heartbeat of the river flows in every small community, their histories and their present days, their very ways of life.

In advance of this larger expedition, the Relay Team is coming to Clarksdale this September to participate in the Water/Ways Exhibition and learn more about the Clarksdale community. They are interested to meet residents from the area who have a relationship with the Mississippi River and other surrounding natural resources. Based in Chicago, IL, the Relay Team is also interested to connect with Clarksdale residents who have ties there due to the 1927 Flood and the Great Migration. Through a choreographed dialogue, the Team will listen and move together with the Clarksdale community and carry home a new knowledge of life in Mississippi and on the Mississippi.

Free admission to the Delta Blues Museum with a Smithsonian Museum ticket

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Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. The Museum Day ticket provides free admission for two people on Saturday, September 22, 2018.

Tickets will be available for the public to download beginning at midnight on August 15, 2018.

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