News
......................................................................................................Touchable Stories will be this year's featured plenary presenter at The Oral History Association's 43rd annual meeting October, 14-18, 2009 in Louisville, Kentucky. The theme ‘ Moving Beyond the Interview ‘ intends to highlight work in the field of oral history that exists "outside of the box". Touchable Stories founder Shannon Flattery will be introduced by Richard Cándida Smith of UC Berkeley's Regional Oral History Office. The keynote presentation will be presented by Appalshop.
www.oralhistory.org
Touchable Stories founder Shannon Flattery has been awarded the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities Fellowship for the fall of 2009 at Brown University in Providence RI.
International Collaboration:
Echoes From The Edge developed in partnership with Friction Arts, Birmingham UK to implement an community building oral history project ran April 23 and run through May 30 2009.
www.frictionarts.com
New Projects:
The New England Folk Music Archives has been established to preserve, promote and document the ongoing cultural impact of folk music and its connections to New England.
ANIMATING ARCHIVES:
Collaborations with other organization to energize and amplify their exisiting archives.
The Texas Folk Music Foundation (Kerrville Folk Festival) is hosting a living history booth at the 2009 festival. This booth featured interactive listening stations, text based histories, ongoing oral history collection and displays of memorabilia.This project is expected to grow in future years. www.tfmf.org
The Passim Folk Music and Cultural Center's Passim Archives Project installed a guitar adapted into an interactive listening in the entranceway to the venue.
The guitar features samples of recorded oral histories and interviews.
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