Wagner College with ClearChannel

Wagner College at Times Square

I had the pleasure of working again with Wagner College, as they took a group of students to Times Square to meet with ClearChannel Outdoor. This is the company that produces many of the large outdoor advertising screens in Times Square and across the country. The tour ended with Wagner’s image projected on a huge [...]

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PortRichmondTour

Cultural tour of Port Richmond

A collaboration between City Lore’s City of Memory project and the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island led to a fun and informative cultural tour of Port Richmond, in Staten Island. Port Richmond is not just about Mexicans, Jesus Cabrera says. It’s about the whole Latino and Hispanic community. He describes “the [...]

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CityLore

City Lore profile

Based in the Lower East Side of New York City, City Lore is dedicated to fostering NYC’s living cultural heritage. It was an honor to work with them, interview some staff, and put together this profile piece.

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PravinaShukla

Community Mural Project (Pravina Shukla)

“My whole life has been experiencing different cultures, different customs—different ways of eating and living and being… I came home and looked at that particular interview, in the context of other interviews, and at that moment I realized I wasn’t there to get interviews of all the women who really loved jewelry. I was there [...]

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MichaelFoster

Community Mural Project (Michael Foster)

“I realized that what I was really doing there was collecting folklore and doing a lot of things that folklorists do, which really is interacting with people and trying to understand what makes people tick in particular places, and what their relationships are with each other and the land and with their community.”

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