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Mtn. News: History, Culture, and Politics in Central Appalachia
In this episode we’re remembering the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster in Raleigh County, WV in 2010, celebrating the life and musical legacy of Addie Graham with her grandson Rich Kirby, and reviewing some federal bills related to land and health here in the coalfields. #BeRadioActive this Fund Drive & Support your Public Affairs...Read More ▶Mtn. News: History, Culture, and Politics in Central Appalachia
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Hopes Rise With New RECLAIM Act
Over the past 6 years residents of coal-impacted communities and supporters across the country have urged Congress to pass the RECLAIM Act, which would invest $1 billion on an accelerated clean up of land and water harmed by abandoned mines, and provide a catalyst for economic development on those sites. This radio report highlights...Read More ▶Hopes Rise With New RECLAIM Act
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Mtn. Talk: The International Language of Music
In this episode we’re exploring the power of music to connect us across difference. Found Sound Nation’s #MosaicInteractive crew guides us through this journey of musical and cultural exchange: connecting memories of Kurdish women in northern Turkey with those of women here in Eastern Kentucky, dreams of Palestinian children to international conversations around borders,...Read More ▶Mtn. Talk: The International Language of Music
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Tapping Into Tradition
Could maple syrup become an income generating crop in the hills of Appalachia? Seth Long, who operates a small farm in Letcher County, KY, thinks so as do others in the region. New technologies are making what used to be a traditionally harvested product for home use possible on a larger scale. OVR/WMMT reporter...Read More ▶Tapping Into Tradition
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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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Exhibit Features Eastern Kentucky Family Archives
During Seedtime on the Cumberland 2018, Appalshop Archive mounted a gallery exhibition featuring historical photographs and heirloom objects from family archives in and around Letcher County. The exhibit is the culmination of a yearlong, NEH-supported project to preserve and increase public awareness of personal archives. In spring and summer of 2017, Archive staff hosted...Read More ▶Exhibit Features Eastern Kentucky Family Archives
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Appalshop Awarded 2 Grants from National Endowment for the Arts
Appalshop is proud to announce that it has received two Spring 2018 grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. These NEA funds with matching contributions will enable Appalshop Archive to support artist residencies and associated cultural events with a focus on foodways, and an Appalachian Media Institute-led exchange between rural regional youth and...Read More ▶Appalshop Awarded 2 Grants from National Endowment for the Arts
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A Theater of Affirmation
Here's what happened when, in September 2017, American Theatre magazine asked Roadside's artistic director for an interview for a forthcoming article about how our current polarized politics “in the Age of Trump” shine a spotlight on the social and cultural work of theatremakers.Read More ▶A Theater of Affirmation
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Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is a first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader. Braden was hailed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail as a white southerner whose rejection of her segregationist upbringing was "eloquent and prophetic". Ostracized as a "red" in the 1950s, she fought for an...
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