Talk

Cut Into the Past: Reclaiming Our Narratives [Multiple Dates]

Thursday, May 21 2015
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Together with the local New York Public Library’s Branch Community Oral Program, we are collecting oral histories of people who lived and worked in the neighborhood and near the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse.  Join us for the kick-off of this exciting partnership with NYPL. Adult Programming Coordinator, Alexandra Kelly, will introduce basic interview methods to the community, and conduct live interviews with luminaries from the neighborhood, which will be archived at the New York Public Library for future generations.

Please visit oralhistory.nypl.org for more information about the New York Public Library's Community Oral History Project.

 

Kick-Off Event is May 14 at 6:30pm.

Training Sessions to be announced soon! And Narrative Collection dates and sign up slots will be posted shortly. Stories can be as short as 4 minutes, or as long as 1.5 hrs.  

 

 

RSVP Related Exhibition:  When You Cut Into the Present the Future Leaks Out