VFC Events :: Julia Alvarez Reading
On Jan. 13, the Vermont Folklife Center will present critically acclaimed, award-winning novelist Julia Alvarez, reading from her new novel, Return to Sender, at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater at 7 p.m. Focusing on immigration, migrant workers, and a Vermont farming family, the book captures the raw emotion surrounding this timely subject matter by telling the story through the questioning innocence of children.
The reading, which is free and open to the public, is the last in a series of events sponsored by the Vermont Folklife Center in connection with the exhibit The Golden Cage: Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers.
VFC Education :: 2009 Classes in Ethnography and Oral History
The 2009 Vermont Folklife Center ethnography and oral history class series begins January 5, 2009 with Getting the Word(s) Out: Multiple Settings for Audio Interviews. Designed as a disucssion-rich seminar, Getting the Word(s) Out explores strategies for crafting public presenations from audio recorded interviews created from ethnographic and oral history research projects.
To learn more about this class and others in the 2009 Ethnography and Oral History class series, please see the Vision & Voice Documentary Workspace schedule of classes :: link
VFC Exhibitions :: The Golden Cage: Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers Extended
Due to overwhelming public response, The Vermont Folklife Center is pleased to announce the extension of our current exhibit, The Golden Cage: Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers, through the end of January, 2009.
This multi-media exhibit, incorporating photographs, text, and audio interviews in Spanish and English, explores the unique alliance between Addison County farmers and Mexican migrant workers, and shares their insights into the web of challenges facing the dairy farm industry and immigrants in Vermont.
C, which opened September 6th, will be on display in VFC’s Vision and Voice Documentary Workspace within the organization’s headquarters in Middlebury until January 31, 2009.
For details on The Golden Cage: Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers please click here :: link
VFC Media :: After the Forgetting
The Vermont Folklife Center is excited to announce that our latest audio documentary, After the Forgetting, is being showcased at Transom.org. After the Forgetting was produced by Erica Heilman and Gregory Sharrow for Vermont Folklife Center Media.
After the Forgetting is a story is told without narration in a series of interview segments and dinner conversations among three people—Greg, his husband Bob, and Greg's mother Marjorie. It examines Marjorie's relationship with a son and son-in-law whose names she can't remember, and it addresses the question of what happens to love when there is no longer memory.
To listen to After the Forgetting please visit Transom.org :: link
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