Recently published by Magabala Books is “Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon”, a collaborative ethnography of Bardi culture as enacted through the One Arm Point Community School Culture Program. One Arm Point is an Aboriginal community on the Dampier Penninsula, North West of Broome, Western Australia. The book draws on materials made out...
Checkout the newest offering from the Neighborhood Story Project in New Orleans: “After a season of writing workshops on the backside of the Fair Grounds, the Neighborhood Story Project has produced an exhibition of open letters written by jockeys, trainers, grooms, hotwalkers, veterinarians and track employees… Each year, more than 700 workers arrive in...
This coming Thursday (December 10th 2009) in the Casino Building in City Park, New Orleans, the Neighborhood Story Project will be launching 4 new books written by students (and one recent graduate) of John McDonogh Senior High School. These books have been 2 1/2 years in the making and tell the stories of New...
If you don’t yet know about the Neighborhood Story Project (NSP) – then this blog post is for you. Based in New Orleans Lousianna, NSP is a project at the intersection of education, collaborative anthropology, community development and the making of locally relevant literature. Their own self-description is: “through writing, interviews, and photograph, neighborhood...
In 2008 I collaborated with Rachel Breunlin from the Neighborhood Story Project (based in New Orleans, Louisiana USA) and Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation (based in Derby, Western Australia) on a collaborative writing and photography project which resulted in the book Singing Out – Aboriginal Ladies Stories of the North West Kimberley. The project aimed at...
About 5 blocks from where I am living in San Cristobal De Las Casas is the workshop (taller in spanish) of a wonderful collective of Mayan artists who publish, write, illustrate and bind their own books, including making the paper they print on out of local and recycled materials. I visited the workshop today,...