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Posted by: Michelle Stefano
An Of the People blog post featuring a 2023 Community Collections Grant recipient project focused on documenting Brooklyn, New York's J'ouvert Carnival community and traditions.
Posted in: Community Collections grants
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
An announcement for the final informational webinar and other application resources of the American Folklife Center's Community Collections Grants of the Library's Of the People: Widening the Path Initiative.
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Posted by: Michelle Stefano
Announcement of informational webinars to be held by Library of Congress staff for the American Folklife Center's Community Collections Grants program, whose 2024 applications have opened with a deadline of August 18, 2023.
Posted in: Available Funding, Community Collections grants
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This is an announcement for the opening of the application period of the American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant Program, which is part of the Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Posted in: Available Funding, Community Collections grants
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
The post focuses on the February 2023 culminating celebration of the cultural documentation project, Community on the Line: The Culture of Urban Soul Line Dancing in the Philadelphia, New Jersey and Delaware Tri-State Area, led by Karen Abdul-Malik and supported by the American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Program.
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Posted by: Michelle Stefano
An announcement of the project team, Remembering Black Dallas, receiving a 2023 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant for their project, If Tenth Street Could Talk.
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Posted by: Michelle Stefano
The following is a guest post by American Folklife Center (AFC) Folklife Specialist Nancy Groce on AFC Community Collections Grant recipient Rocío del Aguila Carreno about her project, “Fiestas: Latinx Celebrations in Western Kansas.” This post is part of the Of the People blog series featuring the 2022 awardees of the American Folklife Center’s Community …
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Posted by: Michelle Stefano
The following is a guest post by American Folklife Center (AFC) Folklife Specialist Guha Shankar, who interviews AFC Community Collections Grant recipient Florencio “Isaac” Rodriguez about his project, “Sonidos de Houston: Documenting the City’s Chicano Music Scene.” This post is part of the Of the People blog series featuring the 2022 awardees of the American …
Posted in: Community Collections grants
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
The Library of Congress American Folklife Center is pleased to announce the 2023 recipient cohort of the Community Collections Grants program. Over this year, the awardees will work to complete a range of meaningful research and documentation focused on community cultural traditions in an array of places across the country and U.S. territories. Their documentary …
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