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A&M-Texarkana PLACE to Feature Guest Speaker Adam Gussow,
Blues Musician and Educator from the University of Mississippi
TEXARKANA, Texas – Texas A&M University-Texarkana’s Program for Learning And Community Engagement (PLACE) will be featuring blues musician Adam Gussow as a part of its “Southern Experience” themed speaker series on November 20.
Gussow is a professor at the University of Mississippi and will be discussing his journey into blues music with a man named Mr. Satan, a well-known blues guitarist. As a professional blues harmonica player, Gussow has recorded a half dozen albums, played significant blues, jazz, and folk festivals, and featured in the documentary “Satan & Adam” currently screening on Netflix.
The PLACE event “Working with Mr. Satan: A Personal Introduction to the Blues” will occur on November 20 at noon on Zoom. The lecture is free and open to the public, but preregistration is required. To register for this event, please visit https://tamut.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rcOGrpjMrHt2IeIA48_Bf6C7tXx2Whuq6.
PLACE is a faculty-led program designed to create a community of learners comprised of A&M-Texarkana students, faculty, staff, and the community at large. PLACE chooses an annual theme to organize a lecture series and other activities that provide focal points for learning and discussion. This year’s theme is “The Southern Experience.”
The theme incorporates a wide array of activities and programming throughout the campus. Activities and programming include faculty lectures, student presentations, guest speakers, an ordinary reader, symposiums of community members, and incorporating the theme into courses, student debates, the university library book club, and dramas.
For more information, contact Dr. Angela Harless, PLACE Program Co-Chair, at angela.harless@tamut.edu or visit the PLACE website at www.tamut.edu/PLACE.
A&M-Texarkana Office of Extended Education and Community Development Offers Free Mental Health Awareness Mini-Series
TEXARKANA, Texas – Texas A&M University-Texarkana’s Office of Extended Education and Community Development and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Bowie County Leadership Advisory Board are partnering to present a free online mental health awareness mini-series in November and December. We designed a series of programs to help people recognize and help those in the early stages of developing a mental health problem or are in the midst of a mental health crisis.
The three events in the series include:
• November 19 – 2:00 pm Ms. Kelli Cook, Discussion geared toward identifying issues in pre-school/elementary school/middle school (pre-teen) age youth.
• December 1 – 10:00 am Ms. Jennifer Sellers, LPC-S and owner of Texarkana Mental Health & Wellness, and Discussion geared toward identifying mental health issues in high school & college-age youth.
• December 8 – 10:00 am Claire Rodriquez, Heritage Hospice, Participants will discuss mental health stressors in the senior population geared towards family, friends, and caregivers.
The Mental Health Awareness Mini-Series is free and open to the public. Participants must register in advance at www.tamut.edu/eecd. For more information on the event, contact Emily Newsome at enewsome@tamut.edu or by phone at (903)223-3039.