Press Conference With Mayor Deke Copenhaver To Announce Augusta GolfFEST 2010 For Developing African American Golf Exhibit At Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History
New York, NY -- The African American Golfer's Digest, the nation's arch book advertisement and online aperture for ardent Black golfers, announces its Augusta GolfFEST 2010 in affiliation with the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History (LCLMBH) in Augusta, Georgia. The week-long anniversary will be captivated April 5-11, 2010 during the action of Masters Week--providing ancestors fun, educational programs and more. The Augusta GolfFEST theme: "Celebrating Family, History, Fitness & Golf" highlights the array of activities accepting offered for amusement by the absolute ancestors with advice to inspire, abutment and brainwash attendees on how to cover golf as a allotment of a advantageous lifestyle, business, or career.
A columnist appointment is appointed for 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 8th at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History amid at: 1116 Phillips Street, Augusta, GA 30401. In appearance will be the Mayor of Augusta, Deke Copenhaver, State Representatives and added stakeholders.
The specific purpose for Augusta GolfFEST is fundraising, as its aggregation of bounded hosts, the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History and Planning Committee associates aim to use gain from the week-long accident for allowance to actualize an amplification of the building complex. The new amplitude at this nationally accustomed celebrated website would be committed to collecting, attention and announcement decades of artefacts, documents, photographs, blur footage and added items accompanying to the cogent history and contributions fabricated by African Americans to golf. In addition, the board is planning an exhibition that is to eventually become a travelling display.
"I am admiring with the befalling to accompany this all-embracing affairs focused on golf to Augusta; the home of the Masters. Augusta is the absolute destination for honouring and adulatory the appulse that African Americans accept fabricated to the game, acceptable some of the best in their acreage as caddies, players and professionals. Augusta attracts millions of visitors during Masters Week and the Augusta GolfFEST is an agitative accession which will admit our history and arete in golf and affiliate us in the spirit of the game," says publisher, Debert Cook.
According to the museum's Executive Director, Christine Miller-Betts, "We are aflame with the affairs presented by our partnering with African American Golfer's Digest to host the countdown Augusta GolfFEST. The array of activities we will present will acquiesce added Augustans the befalling to participate in the spirit of the Masters Week."
The festival's contest will be educational, absorbing and mostly free, with some involving a nominal fee. The action kick-offs on Thursday, April 8th with a bright "Golf Cart" array (Curtis Street to Phillips Street) en-route to the official ribbon-cutting and aperture of the artery fair that will barrage Augusta GolfFEST's active, week-long schedule: art exhibition, career seminars, women's befalling brunch, association forum, Town Hall meeting, golf tournament, bright banquet fundraiser and fireworks are a allotment of the list.
"There is a no added adapted area than Augusta for that acceptance and tribute. We accept affianced The Freelon Group (www.FREELON.com) as our architects; a nationally accustomed accolade acceptable architecture close that has completed museums in Baltimore, San Francisco, Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh, NC. They were afresh awarded the commissions to architecture the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta and the National Museum of African American History and Culture that will be the endure architecture on the National Mall in Washington, DC," says Miller-Betts, who has 13 years of account with the museum.
The Augusta GolfFEST Committee includes the afterward members: Debert Cook, CMP and administrator of African American Golfer's Digest; Christine Miller-Betts, Executive Director of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History; Corey Rogers, Historian for the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, Rosa Clemons, Board Chair for the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History and Marquette Folley, Curatorial Advisor/Exhibition Developer.
About African American Golfer's Digest
The African American Golfer's Digest launched in March 2003 and is the nation's arch ascendancy and online aperture for ardent atramentous golfers. It is headquartered in New York City and is a 100% minority-owned and woman-owned and operated business. This advertisement is the alone golf annual accurately targeting the African American demographic. Named a PGA of America Diverse Supplier the African American Golfer's Digest's beat address derives from its grass roots access and partnerships with added than 250 top, Black-focused golf tournaments and contest annually about the country. The 40-page, full-color annual enjoys a apportionment of 20,000 and alcove 80,000 readers nationwide. Its annually hosted signature contest include: Bayou Golf Tournament (July, New Orleans, La.), Diversity Pavilion at the PGA Merchandise Show & Convention (January, Orlando, Fla.), Outstanding Leaders in Golf Awards (January, Orlando, Fla.), Friends & Family Golf Cruise (February/Mexico) and the countdown Augusta GolfFEST (Augusta, Ga., April).
About The Lucy Craft Laney Museum
The Lucy Craft Laney Museum is the alone African American Museum committed to art, history and canning in the Central Savannah River Area (CRSA, Augusta and its surrounding Areas). The museum, which opened in 1991, is a baby abode building that was the above home of Miss Lucy Craft Laney. Miss Laney committed her activity to accouterment educational opportunities for Black adolescence in the Augusta and CSRA areas. The building is amid at: 1116 Phillips Street, Augusta, GA, in the Historic Laney-Walker District, abreast the aboriginal website of the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute. The mission of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History is to advance the bequest of Miss Laney through arts, history and the canning of her home. This alarming assignment is able by educating and advertisement accouchement and adults of the CSRA, the State, and above with African American art, history and canning through exhibits and programs. www.LucyCraftLaneyMuseum.com
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