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Watch Party: Crystal Good “Black Diamonds”
Crystal Good, member of the Affrilachian (African American Appalachian) Poets and founder of Mixxed Media, is hard to put in just one box. She prefers: artist, advocate, and entrepreneur. This talk was given at a TEDx event. She takes the stage to rally and inform with her lyrical perspective of American history through a West Virginia lens—comparing and contrasting the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain and the 2015 Baltimore Uprisings.
Program Watch Party | Roots & Wings: The West End Poetry Opera
This week we turn to Louisville, Kentucky for Roots and Wings: the West End Poetry Opera. Co-directed by Stacy Bailey-Ndiaye & Theo Edmonds. The operatic platform aims to create an interdisciplinary piece of contemporary theater — featuring cultural narratives by the youth of west Louisville in an effort to express hope for sustainability and social justice. Check it out. You won’t be disappointed
Program Deep Dive | “A Deeper Creek: The Watchable Waters of Appalachia”
This program deep dive shares the work of our friends at Freshwaters Illustrated. Check out this short (6 min) documentary on the natural beauty of streams in Appalachia, A Deeper Creek - The Watchable Waters of Appalachia. Photo by David Herasimtschuk.
Throwback Thursday - Stories: YES!
In 2017, BRAHM was awarded the Stories: YES! grant. Seventeen eighth-grade students from Bethel School created four documentaries that highlighted important stories from their community. The four films produced look at the Stone Mountain General Store in Bethel, Deal Cornette Christmas Tree Farm, livestock farming in Bethel, and an interview with Dorcus Hodges, Bethel native, and school custodian.
Program Watch Party: Hollow
Program Watch Party! We encourage you to check out this ONE-OF-A-KIND interactive documentary, Hollow. Hollow is an immersive HTML5 documentary that blends community-created video with footage shot by McMillion Sheldon. Thirty video portraits of McDowell county residents are distributed across five thematic sections tackling issues like health, community activism, and the influence of the coal industry. The project draws on dynamic data visualizations, but statistics are balanced with personal narratives to put a face on the numbers.
At-Home Watch Party: “The Last Dragons”
Check out this video as a reminder that we share the rivers with some incredible wildlife and it is important for us to respect their habitat. Our friends over at Freshwaters Illustrated produced this intimate glimpse at North America's Eastern Hellbender. Hellbenders are an ancient species of salamander that lives as much in myth as in reality and in many waters, myths are all that remain of these sentinel stream-dwellers.