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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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Now Hiring: Directors, AMI and Roadside Theater
Appalshop is currently seeking two new full-time, salaried positions: an Appalachian Media Institute (AMI) Director and a Roadside Theater Director. Appalshop is an equal opportunity employer, and its employment policies and practices are applicable to all employees without regard to race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, creed, disability or national origin. Appalachian Media Institute Director Permanent...Read More ▶
Now Hiring: Directors, AMI and Roadside Theater
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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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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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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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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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Appalshop Featured in NEA Milestone Video
Appalshop was recently honored to be featured in this Milestone Video celebrating the National Endowment for the Arts’ 50th Anniversary. The video combines footage from the Appalshop Archive with interviews from staff, partners and community members that showcase Appalshop’s unique legacy of work in place-based media production and community arts. Thanks to the NEA...Read More ▶
Appalshop Featured in NEA Milestone Video
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