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- Seedtime On the Cumberland Festival
- Traditional Music Program (includes the Passing the Pick and Bow After-School Program)
- Old Time String Band Day
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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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Black in Appalachia – Living History
From the region’s historically black colleges and black cemeteries to community story circles, Black in Appalachia is using research and local narratives to raise the visibility of Black communities in the mountain South. This growing media project visited Whitesburg, KY last month to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Starting over a decade ago with...Read More ▶Black in Appalachia – Living History
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SEEDTIME: Appalshop’s Festival of Mountain Arts, June 2-3
On June 2th & 3th, 2017, the Appalshop grounds in Whitesburg, KY will once again be alive with music, art, theater, food, and crafts for the 31st Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. This year’s event will spotlight the tools of culture that have built, and continue to sustain, our mountain communities! In addition to...Read More ▶SEEDTIME: Appalshop’s Festival of Mountain Arts, June 2-3
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Appalshop Featured in NEA Milestone Video
Appalshop was recently honored to be featured in this Milestone Video celebrating the National Endowment for the Arts’ 50th Anniversary. The video combines footage from the Appalshop Archive with interviews from staff, partners and community members that showcase Appalshop’s unique legacy of work in place-based media production and community arts. Thanks to the NEA...Read More ▶Appalshop Featured in NEA Milestone Video
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Appalshop Receives 2015 ArtPlace America Grant for “Mining the Meaning” Project in Letcher County
Appalshop announced today that it is among 38 recipients of ArtPlace America’s 2015 National Grants Program. ArtPlace, one of the nation’s largest philanthropies dedicated to creative placemaking, is investing $450,000 in Letcher County, Kentucky to further integrate arts and culture into the field of community planning and development. Appalshop will increase arts, media &...Read More ▶Appalshop Receives 2015 ArtPlace America Grant for “Mining the Meaning” Project in Letcher County
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Photographing and Following Dreams
The Story, a radio program from American Public Media, speaks with photographer Wendy Ewald, who has been photographing communities for decades. This coming year, she returns to Appalachia to reconnect with children she taught how to photograph. When the children were young, Wendy asked them to photograph their dreams – and they did. Now,...Read More ▶Photographing and Following Dreams
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