Fall 2016 | Oral History and the City
What can oral histories tell us about life at the scale of the city? About how people make their homes in neighborhoods, or think of themselves as urban citizens? How can the practice of oral history be used as an intervention in urban life?
Taking New York City as a lab, this series will explore oral history in and of the city.
Thursday Evening Event Series
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Fall 2016
September 22, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Splicing into an Existing Narrative: Living Los Sures and Local Co-Creation
IN-PERSON with Christopher Allen
A film about a Brooklyn neighborhood, once ignored by community leaders and nearly lost in the archive, becomes an article of local pride 30 years later; an opportunity for a new conversations opens. Produced over 5 years by 60 artists at UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, LIVING LOS SURES is an expansive project about the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
September 29, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century
IN-PERSON with DW Gibson
How can oral history help us understand one person's concrete experiences as part of the larger, much more abstracted phenomena of gentrification? How does oral history help us understand what gentrification looks like as it plays out in our daily lives?
October 6, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Large-scale and Local: Engaging New York Public Library Communities in the Collection Process
IN-PERSON with Alexandra Kelly
The Community Oral History Project is an initiative taking place throughout the NYPL system that aims to document, celebrate, and make accessible the rich history of New York City’s unique communities. In this session, project director Kelly will lead discussion around (1) the project model -- surprises, emerging best practices, and the ways it has evolved within each community and (2) challenges around maintaining oral history standards in a large-scale volunteer-driven project.
October 20, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Intersection | Prospect Heights: Dialogue in the Supermarket
IN-PERSON with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
How do we talk about, argue about, and even laugh and cry about gentrification? In this session, urbanist and artist Bendiner-Viani will discuss her most recent public art and dialogue project, Intersection | Prospect Heights, in which exhibitions were curated at the supermarket and photographs and oral histories of a diner spurred much-needed conversation on this radically changing city.
© Alicia Atterberry, 2015
November 10, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
More Than a Riot: Listening to the Unheard Voices of Crown Heights
IN-PERSON with Zaheer Ali
Using BHS’s Voices of Crown Heights as an example, this presentation will explore what it means to be a listening institution that collects, preserves, curates, and presents oral histories; and how programming that cultivates public listening to diverse histories and experiences can create opportunities for civic listening.
December 1, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Below the Grid: Decolonizing the Silences, Fragments, and Shadows of Manhattan
IN-PERSON with John Kuo Wei Tchen
Below the Grid is the public practice defining my current curatorial, research, and teaching work. In part it references the foundational Anglo-Dutch Protestant political culture below the 1811 city grid starting at Houston Street but it also references the compounded subaltern and subalternative intermingled lives and improvised experiences which give character to downtown's port culture, a culture far beyond simply the wealthy and the powerful.
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