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Alex Gibson To Deliver Historic Berea College Address
Appalshop Executive Director and Berea College alum (’08) Alex Gibson, J.D., will deliver the commencement address at Berea College’s Recognition Service for Mid-Year Candidates for Graduation at 3PM ET on Sunday, December 9, 2018. Alex is the youngest alumnus ever to deliver this annual address, which celebrates the culmination of students’ hard work and accomplishments at Berea....Read More ▶
Alex Gibson To Deliver Historic Berea College Address
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Let the Mountains Ring Forever: Celebrating Jim Webb
It is so hard to describe what Jim Webb meant to Appalshop. Words are inadequate to measure his impact on generations of filmmakers, photographers, writers, radio listeners and programmers young and old alike. They cannot convey the wild joy, at once playful and determined, which Jim brought to every musical program, board meeting, or...Read More ▶
Let the Mountains Ring Forever: Celebrating Jim Webb
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Remembering “Red Fox” In Life and Onstage
There are still many old people around home who remember these two trials, some whose families were deeply involved in them. And the way these folks tell the story is often very different from the history books, yet closer to those forgotten documents. Ours is such a story, a story about memory – memory...Read More ▶
Remembering “Red Fox” In Life and Onstage
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Appalshop in DC! September 24-27
Appalshop is proud to be in DC for an American Folklife Center event “Since 1968: Cultural Organizations, Programming and Documentation, and Community Enrichment in New York, Kentucky, and Washington D.C.” on Monday, September 24 at 1 pm. The afternoon symposium features the Center for Traditional Music & Dance, as well as the Drum and Spear Bookstore....Read More ▶
Appalshop in DC! September 24-27
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Appalshop and Coalition Partners Awarded Mini-Grant for Whitesburg Walkability
Grant from the Community Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky (CEDIK) to support walkability, pedestrian access and wayfinding improvements for walking/biking trail in Whitesburg, Kentucky Appalshop has been awarded a mini-grant from the Community Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky (CEDIK). This award will be shared amongst 7 coalition partners, and will fund walkability and pedestrian...Read More ▶
Appalshop and Coalition Partners Awarded Mini-Grant for Whitesburg Walkability
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Exhibit Features Eastern Kentucky Family Archives
During Seedtime on the Cumberland 2018, Appalshop Archive mounted a gallery exhibition featuring historical photographs and heirloom objects from family archives in and around Letcher County. The exhibit is the culmination of a yearlong, NEH-supported project to preserve and increase public awareness of personal archives. In spring and summer of 2017, Archive staff hosted...Read More ▶
Exhibit Features Eastern Kentucky Family Archives
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Youth in the Mountains | Seedtime & Summer on the Cumberland
Celebrating youth in the mountains made the 32nd Annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival a beautiful way to kick off another hot Appalachian summer. From the main stage & theater, to the farmer’s market and craft tent, people gathered for a weekend of music, art, crafts, film, food, and community. All broadcast live on...Read More ▶
Youth in the Mountains | Seedtime & Summer on the Cumberland
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Seedtime Festival June 1-2 | Whitesburg Summer of Music & Art
Appalshop hosts its annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival this June 1-2, 2018. Celebrations of local and regional music, art, film, food, and crafts will run through Friday and Saturday, following Whitesburg’s first Levitt AMP concert. Celebrating youth this 32nd year of Seedtime, Appalshop is spotlighting the 30th year of the Appalachian Media Institute...Read More ▶
Seedtime Festival June 1-2 | Whitesburg Summer of Music & Art
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Appalshop Awarded 2 Grants from National Endowment for the Arts
Appalshop is proud to announce that it has received two Spring 2018 grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. These NEA funds with matching contributions will enable Appalshop Archive to support artist residencies and associated cultural events with a focus on foodways, and an Appalachian Media Institute-led exchange between rural regional youth and...Read More ▶
Appalshop Awarded 2 Grants from National Endowment for the Arts
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Support Appalshop Archive | Your donation DOUBLED until April 30th!
Help us reach our goal! Appalshop Archive is in the final two weeks of its NEH Challenge campaign to improve access to Appalshop’s rich collections documenting Central Appalachia and to launch a series of public programming events fostering civic engagement, reflection, and inquiry. If you give towards our $50,000 goal by April 30, 2018...Read More ▶
Support Appalshop Archive | Your donation DOUBLED until April 30th!
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Women of Appalshop | Natasha Watts
As we round out this Women’s History Month series spotlighting a few women who’ve shaped and inspired Appalshop, we focus on the Appalachian Media Institute (AMI), now celebrating 30 years of youth centered programming. Natasha Watts proved that youth media is a vibrant road to higher education and a successful career in the mountains....Read More ▶
Women of Appalshop | Natasha Watts
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From the Archive | Sheila Kay Adams at Seedtime 1992
In honor of Women’s History Month and to celebrate the March birthday of Sheila Kay Adams, Appalshop Archive is pleased to share the entirety of the ballad singer and storyteller’s performance at our 1992 Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. In this audio recording–preserved with support from the GRAMMY Foundation–Adams dedicates the evening to traditional...Read More ▶
From the Archive | Sheila Kay Adams at Seedtime 1992
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Women of Appalshop | Anne Lewis
Kicking off with a 75th birthday celebration of Josephine Richardson, Appalshop’s Women’s History Month series spotlighting Women of Appalshop is very close to home for us. But our next feature leads to Texas. Anne Lewis came out of a movement to make media that creates opportunity for social change. She has made documentary films (always...Read More ▶
Women of Appalshop | Anne Lewis
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Josephine Richardson | Women of Appalshop
This Women’s History Month, women at Appalshop want to honor some of the women who paved the way for us here at the Shop. We’ve been inspired by so many incredible women over the nearly 50 year history of media and art making out of Whitesburg, Kentucky, its hard to know where to start....Read More ▶
Josephine Richardson | Women of Appalshop
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PBS NewsHour Coverage Spotlights Appalshop, New Work and Bakery
Read the full transcript below Judy Woodruff: Now we begin a new series, taking us to all corners of the country to see artists at work. We start with a look at a group that has been serving rural communities in Eastern Kentucky for nearly half-a-century. Originally dubbed the Appalachian Film Workshop, now just...Read More ▶
PBS NewsHour Coverage Spotlights Appalshop, New Work and Bakery
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