Remember2019

The Remember2019 Collective is seeking to support the creativity of students or faculty from the Marvell/Elaine School District with microgrants totaling between $250-$2500 to support collective visioning for young people’s futures and opportunities. Interested students (and family of students) and faculty members can submit a proposal for visual or performing art projects that aim to:

+ Unite community members to encourage interconnectedness
Remind community members of the values and traditions that bring them joy.

+ Re-imagine the future of the community.

+ If a student is under the age of 18, they must have a relative agree to supervise the project. Relatives can develop a project with their students as well and submit a proposal for a family-led project.

Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of 5 community members. Submissions are due August 1st. A second round of interviews will take place in September and finalists will receive funds by October 15th.

Submissions must be made through this form. - https://forms.gle/PC9DiFv7cqmPjtnLA

cc Notch Theatre Company Yazmany Arboleda Arielle Julia Brown Mauricio T Salgado Carlos Sirah

Join us this Friday, April 2, from 8 to 930pm EST for a sharing of our show
Black 'n da Blues: Stories and Songs from the Arkansas Delta. This is an invitation to gather, to reflect and to reveal. It is a communal ritual. It happens in a cafeteria, a church, a club, a school, a stage, or under some shade; a space where the line between the audience and the performers is blurred because we are all here to be seen and remembered.

Written by Carlos Sirah, an internationally produced writer and performer with Remember2019, and co-produced with the Elaine Legacy Center in Elaine, the Delta Cultural Center in Helena-West Helena, and the Boys, Girls, Adults, Community and Development Center in Marvell, this collaborative effort features musicians from the Arkansas Delta as they explore the cultural and race history of Phillips County over the last 100 years, as told through the Spirituals, the Blues and R&B. This is a timely show that weaves together live music and oral history in order to tell a story about the last century in Phillips County including the Elaine Massacre of 1919. The performance is like spending an afternoon on the porch with an inter-generational gathering of neighbors as they sing songs and tell stories about the blues, freedom, suffering and endurance.

In addition to a showing of the 90-minute concert play, (and because the work deals with the 1919 Elaine Massacre and features testimonies documented by renowned journalist Ida B. Wells), there will be a post-show conversation with the project's author, Carlos Sirah, and Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch, Professor of History and Dean of the Graduate School at Arkansas State University to explore how historians have considered these subjects and the Black women living in rural Arkansas during the early part of the 20th century.

JOIN US: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020, 5 p.m. CST
WHY ORAL HISTORY?

As part of The Elaine Legacy Center's pre-anniversary zoom series Paul Ortiz, a professor of history and director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, will speak about why oral history matters. He is president of the United Faculty of Florida-UF (FEA/NEA/AFT/AFL-CIO). His book An African American and Latinx History of the United States was identified by Bustle as one of “Ten Books About Race to Read Instead of Asking a Person of Color to Explain Things to You.” Beyondchron.org called his book Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Blood Election of 1920 “…both an essential teaching of American history and a critical resource for understanding grassroots organizing today.”

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A huge thank you to the JKW Foundation and who have made the work possible.