North Carolina Conversations Summer-Fall 2008.pdf

Durham County$9,800 to the North CarolinaFolklife Institute, DurhamCommunity FolklifeDocumentary Institute, atraining program for citizensacross the state to help themdocument the cultural life oftheir own communities($63,380*)$10,375 to the DurhamLibrary FoundationDurham Reads Together,2007, a wide range ofprograms in conjunction withDurham’s second One City,One Book project ($58,487*)$10,000 to the DurhamLiteracy CenterConnecting Communitiesthrough Literature, afour-week artist-in-residencyprogram featuring New Yorkbasedhip-hop writer SofiaQuintero ($106,562*)$10,555 to Student Actionwith Farm Workers, DurhamNuestras Historias/Nuestras Suenos: OurHistory/Our Dreams —Latino Immigrants in NorthCarolina, the fieldworkcomponent of a collaborationbetween SAF and the Centerfor Documentary Studiesat Duke University thatdocuments the “stories andfolklore practices of Latinomigrant students and theirfamilies.” ($12,454*)Forsyth County$8,789 to the Wake ForestMuseum of AnthropologyRosebud Sioux Exhibitand Humanities Programsand its partnership with theGuilford Native American ArtGallery to support RosebudSioux — A Lakota Peoplein Transition, “an exhibit ofLakota Sioux photographsand artifacts,” and to developprogramming to support theexhibit in both Winston-Salemand Greensboro ($8,789*)Guilford County$5,250 to the Friends of theGreensboro Public LibraryElders Poetry Project, whichprovides opportunities forGreensboro elders to read,learn about, and write poetryin conjunction with its annualpoetry festival ($28,100*)Carolina textile artists, asymposium on textile history,and a series of workshops ontextile art and literature aboutthe experience of former milltown residents ($35,636*)Halifax County$5,000 to Concerned Citizensof TilleryWe Shall Not Be Moved:A History of the TilleryResettlement, Tillery, NC,to support production anddistribution of its completedhistorical video, We ShallNot Be Moved: A History ofthe Tillery Resettlement, anda complementary CD of theJoyful Sound Gospel Choir ofTillery ($7,000*)Henderson County$2,720 to The Friends of CarlSandburg at Connemara inFlat RockCarl Sandburg:Contemporary Perspectivesand Criticism, a symposiumheld at the Blue RidgeCommunity College inHendersonville to discussrecent Sandburg scholarshipand Sandburg’s contributionsto American culture($5,385*)MecklenburgCounty$4,000 to International Houseof Metrolina, CharlotteAfrican Identity in the 21stCentury, a two-lecture serieson the ways in which Africanidentity is understood differentlythrough three framesof reference: the experiencesof African immigrants toCharlotte, African Americans,and the African Diaspora; acollaboration between theAfrican Council of Charlotteand the Department ofAfricana Studies at UNCC($8,125*)$9,190 to the CharlotteMuseum of HistoryFrom Brooklyn toBiddelville, a projectexamining the history andconsequences of urbanrenewal for two of Charlotte’straditionally African Americanneighborhoods ($12,909*)$7,350 to The Light Factory,CharlotteRiver Docs to document theCatawba River, tell its storythrough imagery and narrativefrom the various stakeholders,expose the effects of industryon the river, address thechallenge of access to theriver, and reenergize activityand commitment to theriver and surrounding land;a collaboration of the LightFactory with the CatawbaLands Conservancy, CatawbaRiverkeepers Foundation,the York County Culture andHeritage Museums and theU.S. National WhitewaterCenter ($33,050*)Moore County$5,000 to SandhillsCommunity College, PinehurstCrossing the Atlantic: AnInvitation to Communicate,an innovative correspondencebetween faculty atSandhills Community Collegein Pinehurst and the NewryInstitute in Northern Irelandto share cultural perspectiveswoven into an exhibit to beshown on both sides of theAtlantic Ocean($38,968*)New HanoverCounty$4,000 to Randall Library atUNC-WilmingtonOne Book, One Community,2007, New Hanover Countyto support a series of eventsand discussions centeredaround Persepolis, MarjaneSatrapi’s memoir aboutgrowing up in Iran during theIslamic Revolution ($6,746*)Orange County$9,300 to the Department ofMusic, UNC, Chapel HillFestival on the Hill 2008which celebrates LatinAmerican music’s diversity,its ongoing dialogue with andcontributions to the music ofthe country and the state($52,790*)$9,000 to Hidden Voices inCedar GroveBecause We Are Still Here(and Moving), a communitybasedproject that trains teenresidents to record the oralhistories of their elders intwo historic African Americancommunities — Pine Knollsand Northside (Chapel Hilland Carrboro, NC) — grapplingwith intense pressuresof development ($59,000*)$2,500 to NC Public Radio/WUNC-FM and UNC for NCVoices: Diagnosing HealthCare, a comprehensive twoweekseries focused on theconnections between healthand heath care. Segments ranon Morning Edition, All ThingsConsidered, and The State ofThings ($,2,500*)$9,000 to NC Public Radio/WUNC-FM and UNC for NCVoices: Diagnosing HealthCare, a comprehensive twoweekseries focused on theconnections between healthand heath care. Segmentsran on “Morning Edition,” “AllThings Considered,” and “TheState of Things” ($90,000*)Watauga County$4,370 to Appalachian StateUniversity, BooneBlowing Rock HistoricalSociety for Flat Top Manor:The People and Its History,a symposium to highlightthe history of the 3,500acre estate and the peoplewho lived there, Moses andBertha Cone and thirty tenantfamilies ($7,116*)$5,000 to Appalachian StateUniversity’s Department ofEnglish, BooneGo Back and Fetch It:African American BanjoTraditions Now and Then, adocumentary of 2005 BlackBanjo Exhibit and Gathering,an event which placed theorigins of the banjo in Africaand provided a glimpse ofa new generation of AfricanAmerican string players($5,000*)The 2007 JohnTyler CaldwellAwa r d f o r t h eHumanitiesEmily Herring Wilson is the North CarolinaHumanities Council’s 2007 John Tyler CaldwellLaureate. “We are honored to acknowledgeEmily’s life with the Caldwell Award, notedHumanities Council Board Chair Lynn JonesEnnis. “Emily is a living testament to the humanitiesin North Carolina and across the country.”Following the annual Caldwell Lecture on theHumanities, presented by Tom Lambeth, formerdirector of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation,Valeria Lee, of the Golden LEAF Foundation,conducted an informal conversation with EmilyWilson. The roots duo Polecat Creek performedas part of the ceremony.Writer, lecturer, poet, community volunteer, andgardener, Wilson has authored and edited severalbooks, including No One Gardens Alone: A Lifeof Elizabeth Lawrence (2004); Two Gardeners:Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence —A Friendship in Letters (2002); North CarolinaWomen: Making History, co-authored withMargaret Supplee Smith (1999); and Hope andDignity: Older Black Women of the South (1983).In 1999, she was awarded the Mayflower Cup forthe best book of non-fiction for North CarolinaWomen.$2,000 to the Green HillCenter for North Carolina ArtTextile Monuments Exhibit,an exhibit of current NorthNC Conversations • Summer 2008 • 21