Main Street Cultural Center Grand Opening Weekend: May 2nd-4th, 2025
The Main Street Cultural Center is officially open! From Friday, May 2nd to Sunday, May 4th, the Grand Opening Weekend had community members filing the space with excitement and joy.
Sipp Culture Announces Rural Routes Design Lab + Studio for Mississippi Artists + Cultural Organizers
The Rural Routes Design Lab is a new program of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture) that fosters a model of partnership where artists, creators, and cultural organizers learn from and with Sipp Culture and their peers from across Central Mississippi.
Prepared with Care: 116 Pounds of Freshness for Utica
This week, ElderShare successfully prepared 116 pounds of fresh greens to 20 Utica residents, featuring swiss chard alongside mustards and collards.
ElderShare: Bringing Freshness to Utica’s Seniors
ElderShare provides weekly deliveries of fresh produce to Utica residents aged 60 and over.
Spring Highlights at the Sipp Culture Community Farm
Stories Shared by Jonathan Trimble and Robin Carraway – Sipp Culture Community Farm is a place of peace, team work, development, learning and growth.
Holtzclaw Farmer’s Conference
Sharing knowledge and conversation at the Annual Holtzclaw Farmer’s Conference held at Hinds Community College, Utica Campus. Here are a few moments shared with the Sipp Culture staff.
Sipp Culture Celebrates Main Street Cultural Center in Utica with the National Black Food and Justice Alliance
On Sunday, March 30, Sipp Culture welcomed the National Black Food and Justice Alliance and friends to the Main Street Cultural Center in Utica.
A Successful Plant Sale and Open House: From Seed to Celebration!
On Saturday, March 22nd, we celebrated the start of our 2025 annual plant sale and welcomed visitors to an open house tour of our organization’s new addition at the Main Street Cultural Center.
Hear Carlton Turner on the “In Our Backyard” Podcast
From the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League’s (BREDL) Podcast where
RPPL Artists for 24/25 Announced
Meet the 16 artists for 2024/25 who will be supported through the Rurual Performance Production Lab (RPPL). Artists in Residence, Visiting Artists, and Next Up Artists will all develop their work through the program.
Homegrown Utica Festival Brings the Arts & Health Together
As part of the national 2024 “Arts for Every Body” One Nation One Project, Sipp Culture joined Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center and other Utica leaders to launch Homegrown Utica Fest on July 27th.
Jupiter Performance Studio in Residence at Sipp Culture
In May of 2024, the Jupiter Performance Studio was in residence iterating and sharing a new work: The Sipp Culture Sojourn
Homegrown Utica Officially Launched!
Sipp Culture, Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center, and Community Advisory Group officially launched HOMEGROWN UTICA to celebrate the rich legacy of rural self-determination and artistic voice in the Utica community.
Celebrating Noah White
The team at Sipp Culture, would like to publicly say thank you to Noah White, our outgoing Farm Manager at the Sipp Culture Community Farm. Noah will be heading back to Georgia this spring to manage his own land and farming operations. We are really proud and excited for his next journey and also sad that he is leaving so soon.
Call for School Artist Residency in Utica, MS – One Nation One Project
How can we build healthier communities, as people, as artists, as friends, as a country? Community members are coming together in Utica, Mississippi to explore this question. Learn more about the school artist residency opportunity & apply here.
Coming 2024: “Homegrown Utica Fest” will bring art & wellness together!
Sipp Culture is part of One Nation One Project’s campaign to support artists and leaders across 18 cities as they create art projects aspiring to create healthier communities. The “Homegrown Utica Fest” is coming July 27, 2024!
Sipp Culture Selected for National Arts Research Initiative Funded by the Wallace Foundation
Joining Wallace’s multiyear arts initiative launched in 2021, Sipp Culture will to explore how artists can serve as, and also support, community health workers to enhance the health and wellness of the rural Black community of Utica.
RPPL Artists for 23/24 Announced
Meet the 11 artists for 2023/24 who will be supported through the Rurual Performance Production Lab (RPPL). Artists in Residence, Visiting Artists, and a Next Up Artist will all develop their work through the program.
RPPL Artist Brian Egland Premieres New Play “Where the Suga Still Sweet” in New Orleans
In April 2023, RPPL Artist Brian Egland premiered his new play as part of the We Will Dream New Works Festival at the André Calloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice in New Orleans.
Salt of the Earth National Encuentro
On Earth Day 2023, Sipp Co-Director Carlton Turner delivered the keynote address at the Salt of the Earth National Encuentro: Cultivating Climate, Food, and Land Justice convening in Madera, California.
