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Here are some updates from Create Caribbean and news from our partners and associates.

Feb 21

Basics of the Publishing Industry Workshop

Join us for two sessions with publisher Polly Pattullo, founder of Papiollte Press. These sessions will cover the ins and outs of publishing in the Caribbean. Join us for an introduction to the publishing industry on Monday 6th March at 6:30 pm AST and a follow-up session on Monday 20th March at 6:30 pm AST on the process of publishing your work. Register today and gain insight into the process of publishing your work and advice from a dedicated Caribbean literature publisher!

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Mellon Foundation: Imagining Freedom Virtual Discussion

The Mellon Foundation is pledging $125 million to arts and humanities organisations that focus on mass incarceration. Imagining Freedom is a new initiative, which supports creatives reenvisioning the criminal legal system.

By broadening access to the arts and humanities and exploring how they illuminate opportunities for civic, scholarly, and creative engagement across the criminal legal system, we can bring together all in American society who want to bridge the separation between those who are incarcerated and those who are not.

Join Dr Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Mellon Foundation, and guests to explore intellectual and imaginative communities that transcend the experience of incarceration on Thursday, February 23 at 4:00 PM ET.

The live stream event features renowned activists, scholars, and educators Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent; Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and professor Mitchell S. Jackson; and artist and curator Jesse Krimes.

Journal of Folklore and Education Vol. 10: Teaching with Ethnographic and Folk Arts Collections: Challenging History

The Journal of Folklore and Education is calling for submissions for their 2023 issue, to be released in Fall 2023. Submissions are due on Saturday, April 1, 2023. The Guest Editor for this special issue is Alexandra Antohin.

Primary sources from ethnographic and folk art collections go beyond historical
documents, and include photographs, recorded interviews, artifacts, recipes, music, maps, and more. This special issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education offers a deep dive into ethnographic primary source materials, organized around the theme “Challenging History.” The 2023 issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education invites submissions that call upon ethnographic archives with their documentation of diverse life experiences, perspectives, and vantage points as teaching tools for learning.
Submissions may show that folk collections:

Provide vital entry points for teaching across disciplines through ideas such as memory, meaning, and identity;
Inspire research and new documentation through inquiry-based methodologies;
Offer opportunities for vital engagement—and greater awareness and understanding–of culture, race, religion, and class.

For this JFE issue, submissions that explore learning activities, framework articles, case studies, and research that demonstrate the value of folklore, oral history, and other ethnographic primary source materials in K12 classrooms, higher education, and museums are invited. They seek submissions of articles, model projects, multimedia products, teaching applications, and student work accompanied by critical writing that connects to the larger frameworks of this theme.

For more information, visit https://jfepublications.org/for-authors/call-for-submissions/.

dLOC Workshop Series: Metadata Creation

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is pleased to present Building Capacity for Caribbean Collections: a dLOC workshop series for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums this Spring 2023.

The second workshop in the series will discuss the process for creating metadata using the dLOC metadata template. It will introduce the dLOC Training LibGuide, which contains technical resources for submitting materials, as well as documentation on the use of various scanning equipment. There will be time for questions and discussion.

This workshop will be facilitated by Laura Perry, the Manager of Digital Production Services at the University of Florida.

The Metadata Creation for dLOC workshop will be held via Zoom on March 15, 2023, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST.

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