Appalshop hosted thirteen Indonesians from Jakarta and Yogyakarta as part of a multi-phase
Appalshop hosted thirteen Indonesians from Jakarta and Yogyakarta as part of a multi-phased, international exchange project made possible by a grant from the US Department of State, Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs. The project pairs a growing network of Indonesian media organizations with Appalshop with a commitment to cross cultural exchange in a process of shared learning. The exchange included workshops and a collaborative production with Appalshop's youth media program AMI, the Appalachian Media Institute. This is one of three videos produced during the collaboration.
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Appalshop hosted thirteen Indonesians from Jakarta and Yogyakarta as part of a multi-phase
Appalshop hosted thirteen Indonesians from Jakarta and Yogyakarta as part of a multi-phased, international exchange project made possible by a grant from the US Department of State, Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs. The project pairs a growing network of Indonesian media organizations with Appalshop with a commitment to cross cultural exchange in a process of shared learning. The exchange included workshops and a collaborative production with Appalshop's youth media program AMI, the Appalachian Media Institute. This is one of three videos produced during the collaboration.
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Reaching for Higher Ground, produced by youth, tells the story of a group of young people
Reaching for Higher Ground, produced by youth, tells the story of a group of young people who are fighting to save their communities water.
Background:
Appalshop's Appalachian Media Institute had been training young people from Lotts Creek in video production for several years. The goals of these trainings was to have the video makers create works which would serve their community. At the same time a citizens' group named Kentuckians for the Commonwealth had been working on an organizing project against mine blasting and a deep-mine permit which would destroy the community's watershed. Through communication and working together the two groups, young and old, were able to come together and begin sharing ideas and resources.
In October of 1999, working with media artist Nick Szuberla, a new group of students participated in a series of AMI workshops designed to teach them basic camera skills, team work, image framing and in-camera editing. The students spent time outside hunting for images and running relay-races with cameras around their school grounds.
During the months of November and December, the participants began to form their topics and do community interviews.The young video makers picked two topics. One group began to document the history and founder of their community school--Alice Slone. The other group began to record local residents' struggle with the effects that blasting from coal mining is having on water quality and community health. They called people to be interviewed, set a time to stop by, and prepared questions on the topic.
Between January and April the students shot interviews, created selects tapes and began to rough cut their tapes together. During one interview with a community member who was having problems with blasting, the students came across inspectors for the State Department of Surface mining who told the young video makers that they need to turn their camera off. The students later wrote the State Office of Surface Mining and requested an interview with the inspectors. The interview took place after a series of letters and communications from the state's lawyers...
During February the students produced a community showing of their work and had many of the people they interviewed come for the screening. The showing turned into a community meeting on the history of the school and issues faced by people in regards to coal mining. Both young and old people agreed that it was important for the community to fight against the permit which would threaten their watershed. Later in the month the students produced a one hour radio call in show on WMMT, where they played segments of their interviews over the air.
In June the young people, working with KFTC, organized a surprise trip to the Frankfort, KY Office of Surface Mining to confront officials about the permit that would destroy the Kelly Fork watershed.
In all, over thirty students, community members and ten community-based artists boarded a bus and traveled to Frankfort. Armed with creative tactics and video cameras the young people held a two hour meeting/protest with government officials where they demanded the pulling of the proposed permit. The young people left the building chanting "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, you sink us, and we will sink you." A student later reflected that she felt this was one moment where "we were all together as one...just for one day."
In the following months youth participants in Appalshop's AMI project produced a documentary on youth activism. Building upon the work that came before them, they interviewed the participants in the organizing project and used their peers' video footage to create a piece which spoke to the power of youth organizing.
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n 1997, Senator Paul Wellstone retraced the steps of his hero, Robert
Kennedy, through Ap
n 1997, Senator Paul Wellstone retraced the steps of his hero, Robert
Kennedy, through Appalachia, focusing in particular on eastern Kentucky.
With him was his wife Sheila, daughter of Letcher/Harlan County natives
Delmer and Ellen Ison, and a frequent summer visitor to Kingdom Come Creek
when she was growing up. Also accompanying the Wellstones was senior aide
Tom Lapic. All three were tragically killed in a plane crash on October 25.
During the 1997 tour, Paul, Sheila and Tom spent several days visiting a
Head Start classroom, touring a housing rehabilitation site, and hearing the
concerns of working and disabled coal miners, their wives and widows. On
August 30, Senator Wellstone held a Town Meeting at Appalshop where he
listened for several hours as folks from all over central Appalachia
expressed their concerns about the economy, community development, health
care, education, poverty, workers' rights, and social and environmental
justice. Here are the Senator's closing remarks.
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My name is Michael Garvin, I'm twenty-two years old. I live in Greenup County, Kentucky, i
My name is Michael Garvin, I'm twenty-two years old. I live in Greenup County, Kentucky, in Flatwoods, and I've been playing fiddle for four, going on five years—learning a lot of old-time fiddling from my local area, part of Eastern Kentucky. There's a lot of musicians in my family. My grandparents played music. There's a lot of instruments around the house, so I picked 'em up when I was young. Started playing guitar when I was about ten years old, learned many different guitar styles—loved the Earl Travis, thumb-picking Kentucky style of music, there. That was my first love. I liked promoting that kind of guitar playing, too. Here in the past few years, I've really been obsessed with learning fiddle tunes.The music up around that area, there's a lot more bluegrass, there's a lot less old-time. Though there is a lot of bluegrassers up in that area, I enjoy that kind of music, too. But there's not many programs for traditional music in my area, and really I think down here in Whitesburg, they've got the biggest old-time thing in Eastern Kentucky. It's a small community. You know, Flatwoods is not highly populated. Still out in the country—kind of grabbed up a bit of country and city. I've experienced a little bit of both. That's kind of a privilege—I've been on a farm and I know what it be like, but I never had to do it, never had to be a farmhand, so it's good.It's great to have a tradition to hold on to, and I'm glad that there is a lot of kids interested in that nowadays. There'd been a generation gap of fiddlers for a long time, and I think it seems like in this new millennium, or something, all these traditions are being revived. And fiddling is one of them. I've seen a lot of good fiddlers, it impresses me a lot, makes me want to keep trying harder, to keep the old-time in its place, too. I try to keep on these old-time tunes so I can show them to another generation. It's hard to keep 'em all in your head, though.
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This one-hour documentary which offers viewers an in-depth look at the United States priso
This one-hour documentary which offers viewers an in-depth look at the United States prison industry and the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city minority offenders to distant rural outposts.
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Black Mountain was produced by Appalshop's Community Media Initiative in 1998 in response
Black Mountain was produced by Appalshop's Community Media Initiative in 1998 in response to a group of Harlan Co. Kentucky residents who were organizing against a mountaintop removal permit for the tallest mountain in the state. The video was screened across the state in homes, churches, and college campuses. Produced by Greg Howard, Tom Hansell, and Nick Szuberla.
For more information about Appalshop visit www.appalshop.org
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On or around March 7, 2007, an abandoned mine had a blow out and now acid mine drainage is
On or around March 7, 2007, an abandoned mine had a blow out and now acid mine drainage is gushing into Little Dry Fork, just west of Whitesburg, KY. The orange water, increased water flow, and the changed chemical makeup of the water has decimated aquatic life in the creek. The acid mine drainage flows into Dry Fork and then into the North Fork of the Kentucky River. The plume of cloudy orange runoff extends at least one mile downstream from the mouth of Dry Fork.
Appalshop created this piece as a collaboration with WMMT's Community Correspondents Corps (CCC) and Appalshop Films.
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A work-in-progress from Appalshop Films, "The Bad Old Days" chronicles the 2006 election a
A work-in-progress from Appalshop Films, "The Bad Old Days" chronicles the 2006 election and campaign for Judge-Executive in Letcher County, Kentucky. The documentary is scheduled for release in 2008.
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