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Appalshop Awarded 2 Grants from National Endowment for the Arts

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Appalshop hosts two-night film festival
Join us at the Appalshop Theater for a free two-night festival of short films! The WE TELL National Touring Exhibition features some of the best participatory media produced over the past 50 years, including two films by Appalshop filmmakers. Co-Curator Louis Massiah, Executive Director of Scribe Video Center, will be here for the screenings,...Read More ▶
Appalshop hosts two-night film festival
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Appalshop at the Margaret Mead Film Festival
Have you ever been a stranger with a camera? When you turn 50, it can be tempting to focus on the past. But we’re actively making work at Appalshop today. And next week, Appalshop filmmakers will present their films at the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York City. It’s a huge honor. The Margaret Mead...Read More ▶
Appalshop at the Margaret Mead Film Festival
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Appalshop Turns 50
We were founded in the fall of 1969. This weekend, we officially launch our 50th anniversary year. We’re bringing back our founding generation for a reunion on Saturday. They’ll screen early work, see films by some of our youngest filmmakers, and give materials from their time at Appalshop to our professional archivists to preserve. They’ll eat lunch catered...Read More ▶
Appalshop Turns 50
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Join us Oct 6 for a Celebration and Sunday Service for Wiley Quixote
Jim Webb had something of a cult following. He was a poet and a community organizer, the founder of a literary journal and a newspaper, and the master of wordplay so beloved it spawned a full-blown alter ego. Wiley Quixote, Jim’s persona behind his famed radio show, “Ridin’ Around Listening to the Radio,” first appeared on the airwaves...Read More ▶
Join us Oct 6 for a Celebration and Sunday Service for Wiley Quixote
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Come to an AV Archiving Workshop at Appalshop
All are invited to a free, all-day Community Archiving Workshop on Thursday, September 12, to take place at Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY. This IMLS-funded event brings members of the community together with audiovisual archivists from the Southeast to learn the essentials of preserving film, videotape, and audiotape. Participants will gain hands-on experience by working...Read More ▶
Come to an AV Archiving Workshop at Appalshop
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Appalshop unveils largest net-metered renewable energy system in Eastern Kentucky
In the heart of the coalfields, Appalshop, Inc. unveiled the largest net-metered renewable energy system in Eastern Kentucky with a ribbon cutting on June 7th. The project is a groundbreaking example of what’s possible in Appalachia, a region uniquely vulnerable to rising energy costs and political lobbying against renewable energy. With 192 panels incorporated...Read More ▶
Appalshop unveils largest net-metered renewable energy system in Eastern Kentucky
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Appalshop Celebrates 50 Years in New York & Boston | April 2019
DONATE NOW From a Library of Congress 50th Symposium to Speed Cinema events in Kentucky’s largest art museum throughout 2019, Appalshop’s 50th Anniversary celebration is off to a beautiful start. Appalshop family and five decades worth of artistic partnerships are coming together to make this Golden Anniversary one that touches as many places and people as...Read More ▶
Appalshop Celebrates 50 Years in New York & Boston | April 2019
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Appalshop at 50: Brooklyn Folk Festival 2019
As a part of Appalshop’s growing 50th Anniversary celebrations, Appalshop musicians, artisans and vendors will appear at the Brooklyn Folk Festival from April 5-7, 2019. The annual New York City event will showcase June Appal recording artists, screen Appalshop films, and feature workshops led by traditional Kentucky artists. One Appalshop workshop will explore African-American...Read More ▶
Appalshop at 50: Brooklyn Folk Festival 2019
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Appalshop At 50: Speed Art Museum Film Screenings
Kentucky’s largest art museum, Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY, will screen free Appalshop films monthly throughout 2019 as part of its celebration of the art of Kentucky and Appalshop’s 50th Anniversary. The Museum’s Free Owsley Sunday Films series will kick off on Sunday, January 27 at 1 P.M. with Appalshop’s most circulated film,...Read More ▶
Appalshop At 50: Speed Art Museum Film Screenings
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Girls Rock Whitesburg Announces 2019 Camp Dates
Appalshop held its inaugural WMMT Girls Rock Camp, the first of its kind in eastern Kentucky and the rural southeast in late July, 2018. After a packed Showcase to culminate the week-long camp, gaining official membership to the national Girls Rock Alliance, and a successful Feminist Friday sponsored benefit show, a second Girls Rock...Read More ▶
Girls Rock Whitesburg Announces 2019 Camp Dates
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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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