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The My American Dream Flag Project outdoor installation of student-written poetry will be unveiled at 12:30 p.m. on April 2 at the Chadbourne Library courtyard during the Poetry Across America event. PSC students submitted poems about their individual dreams for the country at mobile poetry stations March 23–26.
The 250 Years Proud campaign at Pensacola State College rolls into April with a colorful display of patriotic sentiment with the Poetry Across America event, the movie “Lincoln,” a discussion about America’s national parks, and digital time travel to Pensacola during the Colonial era.
- PSC explores what it was like to live in Pensacola 250 years ago with a video presentation, premiering April 1 on Facebook and Instagram, featuring a cooking demonstration filmed at Historic Pensacola Village.
- The Pensacola campus will gather for Poetry Across America: From the American Revolution to the Present, starting at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 2, in the Chadbourne Library courtyard at Bldg. 20. The poetry of great American poets will be read, and the poetry of PSC students will be on display with the unveiling of the color exhibit, My American Dream Flag Project.
- On Thursday, April 9, the first in a series of Patriotic Movie Nights will feature “Lincoln” at 6 p.m. in the Hagler Auditorium, Bldg. 2A, on the Pensacola campus.
- PSC Associate Vice President of Government and Community Relations Grover Robinson is checking off a bucket list to visit all of America’s national parks. He will give a lunch-and-learn presentation about national parks and the National Park Service at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, in Bldg. 4, Rm. 401, on the Pensacola campus.
- This month’s flag-raising ceremony will again be held on the Pensacola campus at the flagpole in front of Bldg. 7. Patriotic quotes will be recounted, and the Pledge of Allegiance will be recited at 7:45 a.m. on Friday, April 24.
- Ending the month on a high note, the PSC Jazz and Wind Ensembles will perform their Patriotic Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 30, in the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Bldg. 8, on the Pensacola campus.
Campus events commemorating the nation’s semiquincentennial will continue throughout the months leading up to Independence Day. Future events and updates regarding the college’s 250 Year Proud campaign can be found online at pensacolastate.edu throughout the celebration.