Virginia's 2019 commemoration of the 400th anniversary of four major 1619 events is looking for an agency to handle communications.
The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, which runs museums for the Jamestown settlement and the Yorktown Victory of the American Revolution, has been planning the 2019 event since 2013. It released an RFP this month to guide brand development for the series of events and campaigns to highlight 400 years of the commonwealth's history.
Goals include increases in tourism, promotion of Virginia's economic successes, and education of its history, education and diversity. That includes "three forces that converged in Virginia in 1619 and have been shaping America ever since," democracy, diversity and opportunity.
The major 1619 events include the first representative legislative assembly in British America, at Jamestown; the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia; recruitment of women to expand the Virginia colony, and establishment of a precedent for Thanksgiving at Berkeley Hundred.
Proposals are due Jan. 22, 2016.
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