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UPCOMING EVENTS

** September 9, 2023 | 2—4:30pm **
STORYTELLER world premiere and celebration in Sylva, North Carolina.
Jackson County Library Auditorium.
With Gary Carden, David Joy, William Ritter, and Neal Hutcheson.
Hosted by Cory Vaillancourt of the Smoky Mountain News.

PREVIOUS EVENTS

February, 2023
Talking Black in America—Roots nominated for an EMMY.

November 15, 2022
6:30 pm “NC Moonshine Heritage & Popcorn Sutton” — an online history talk with Neal Hutcheson presented by Wake County Public Libraries. Free and open to all.

October 2022
The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton awarded Grand Prize, 30th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.

September 29, 2022
7 pm Filmmakers Neal Hutcheson and Kirk French present This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I’ll Ever Make (20 year anniversary / 2022 remaster) at The State Theater, State College, PA

September 18, 2022
1 pm Neal Hutcheson presents The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton at City Lights Bookstore, Sylva, NC
6pm Lazy Hiker Taproom, downtown Sylva, NC — Neal Hutcheson presents This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I’ll Ever Make (20 year anniversary / 2022 remaster)

September 13, 2022
6 pm Neal Hutcheson presents The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton at So & So Books,
Raleigh, NC

September 11, 2022
1-3 pm History Talk — The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton at Mount Airy Museum of Regional History, Mount Airy, NC
4pm The Historic Earle Theater, Mount Airy, NC — Neal Hutcheson presents This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I’ll Ever Make (20 year anniversary / 2022 remaster)

April 14, 2021
Tying it Together with Tim Boyum talks with Neal Hutcheson about
The MOONSHINER POPCORN SUTTON

April 12, 2021
The MOONSHINER POPCORN SUTTON reviewed in Thin Slice of Anxiety. Read review here.

April 2nd, 2021
The MOONSHINER POPCORN SUTTON book release. Available from these booksellers.

April 2021
LAND and WATER REVISITED, the new documentary from Empty Bottle Pictures, premieres on PBS. Station finder.

March 31, 2021
The MOONSHINER POPCORN SUTTON reviewed in The Mountaineer. Read review here.

March 29, 2021
The History Bros Podcast talks Popcorn Sutton and Appalachia with Neal Hutcheson.

March 16, 2021
The MOONSHINER POPCORN SUTTON reviewed in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Read review here.

January 23, 2021
New York Times feature on Black American Sign Language gives a nod to SIGNING BLACK IN AMERICA, the new documentary from the Language & Life Project.

July 2020
The United States premiere of LAND and WATER REVISITED / REVISITANDO TIERRA Y AGUA takes live-streamed from the State Theater in State College, Pennsylvania. Some pulque is consumed in a public forum.

May 2020
SIGNING BLACK IN AMERICA premieres on PBS.

February 2020
TALKING BLACK IN AMERICA receives an Emmy for Best Cultural Documentary from the Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

January 2020
LAND and WATER REVISITED / REVISITANDO TIERRA Y AGUA premieres in San Juan Teotihuacán, México.

February 2019
TALKING BLACK IN AMERICA premieres on PBS.