AFC Events Specialist Thea Austen and Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas chat with Queen Nur and AJ Rivers about the CCG project, "On the Line: Urban Line Dancing," and their wildly popular public event held at the Library earlier this year. The post includes photographs from the projects, and a link to the full interview, in the fourth episode of a special subseries of the Folklife Today podcast.
AFC Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas chats with Laura Grant, from the CCG project, "Returning to Our Roots: Traditional Nuwa Harvests." The post includes photographs from the project, interview excerpts, and a link to the full interview, in the third episode of a special subseries of the Folklife Today podcast.
AFC Folklife Specialists Nancy Groce and Meg Nicholas chat with Neil Mellen and Modesta Yangmog, from the CCG project, "Warp and Weft of Yap's Outer Islands: Backstrap Weaving in Micronesia." The post includes photographs from the project, interview excerpts, and a link to the full interview, in the second episode of a special subseries of the Folklife Today podcast.
In this post, AFC Folklife Specialists Michelle Stefano and Meg Nicholas chat with Tameshia Rudd-Ridge and Jourdan Brunson, from the Community Collections Grant project "If Tenth Street Could Talk." The post includes photographs from the project, interview excerpts, and a link to the full interview, in the first episode of a special subseries of the Folklife Today podcast.
Readers are encouraged to take a virtual road trip through AFC's digital collections in celebration of National Road Trip Day, observed on the Friday before the Memorial Day Weekend.
This post is an excerpt of a longer interview with Alex Lumelsky, COO and Creative Director for the Chaldean News, about the 2024 Community Collections Grant (CCG) project, Chaldeans: Portrait of an Evolving Community. The excerpt links to the original post on the Library's Of the People: Widening the Path blog.
