Call for Participation: The Caribbean People Project
The Caribbean People is a multimedia oral history project that aims to archive the ways that knowledge about the Caribbean is preserved, democratized and shared. Using a community storytelling approach, the project aims to collect stories from people and groups working in the areas of history and culture, environmental health, environmentalism and climate justice, anti-poverty community development, decolonial education and literacy, and information freedom, among others.
We are calling for participants in this oral history project. If you or someone you know is interested in being interviewed under any of the aforementioned topics, please fill out this form.
Listen to Siobhan Pascal’s Podcast Episode
Earlier this year, Siobhan Pascal participated in our 6-week workshop on fiction led by Lisa Latouche. Now, she is the focus of this Fall Folklore episode of the DC Public Library Podcast. In the podcast, Siobhan reads her short story called “Jumbie See, Jumbie Do” and sits down for a brief interview with the podcast host. Siobhan workshopped a version of this story back in January at the Crafting Short Fiction writing workshop. Here’s what Siobhan had to say.
“Jumbie See, Jumbie Do has been several years in the making. What started off as a scary thought late one windy night grew into a polished essay with the guidance of Ms Latouche and the feedback of our short story cohort. I am forever grateful to the team at Create Caribbean for this opportunity which helped me return to the field of writing, a hobby I more or less abandoned in college. I look forward to honing my skills by returning to the lessons we went over in our workshop. I hope more people take advantage of resources like this one so that we may have more Caribbean writers entering the field.”
Listen to the podcast here. Congratulations Siobhan!
Join the Mellon Foundation’s Virtual Discussion
The humanities—literature and philosophy, history and languages, ethnic studies and the arts—all have something to teach us about civic engagement in the United States. How might these disciplines help us build a just and dynamic future for our country? How can the tools and truths of the humanities fuel determination and hope in civic exercises like the upcoming election cycle, and all elements of the American political process?
October is National Arts and Humanities Month, an opportunity to celebrate and explore the crucial role of culture and humanities in our everyday lives.
Join Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Mellon Foundation, for a discussion about what the humanities can offer us in the upcoming presidential election and the crucial role they play in driving civic engagement in American communities. Guests for this livestream include Juan Felipe Herrera, former US Poet Laureate, performer and activist; and Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies at Emory University.
Join the Civic Engagement and the Determined Hope of the Humanities virtual discussion on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, at 4:00 PM EDT. Register here.
Call for Submission: Journal of Folklore and Education
The 2024 Journal of Folklore and Education seeks submissions that explore “disruption” and “migration” in relation to the process of reimagining home and tradition. They are interested in contributions that situate creativity and cultural production in moments and landscapes of flux and transformation, and how those affected by these forces forge strategies that disrupt established paradigms. Thus, topics such as identity, inclusion and exclusion, memory, transformation, and community also inform this issue.
They are interested in contributions that address, for example:
People’s experiences during and in response to migrations and/or displacements of different sorts (domestic, international, rural-urban, voluntary and forced, in response to climate, for economic reasons, etc.)
Cultural realignment (coalition building, mutual aid, rethinking/rebuilding communities);
Stories or examples of how people disrupt narratives of harm and pathology related to migration with cultural production that represents resilience, agency, transformation, generative practices
Praxis—the work we do—examples of how the work of educators, folklorists, or culture bearers/artists directly intervene in or disrupt conventions, persistent issues, or chronic conditions.
The Journal of Folklore and Education welcomes contributions in many formats, including interviews, multimedia, photo essays, notes (a shorter format report), and lesson plans. Submissions are due March 15, 2024. For more information, go to their website.
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