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In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session five (of six), Kimberly Wieser presents about her CCG project, "Continuing Comanche Culture: Culture as Making, Craft as Shared Story." Rocío Del Águila presents about her work to document the Hispanic cultural heritages of Latino communities in Western Kansas. Queen Nur (Karen Abdul-Malik) presents about her CCG project, "Community on the Line: The Culture of R&B Urban Line Dancing in the Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware Tri-state Area." Session five concludes with a Q&A among the presenters, moderated by Robert Underwood (Board of Trustees, American Folklife Center). The Community Collections Grants program is a core component for the Library of Congress' Of the People: Widening the Path initiative, supported by the Mellon Foundation. Since 2022, the American Folklife Center has supported twenty-nine CCG projects, enabling community members to document contemporary music, dance, crafts, food traditions, community celebrations and sacred events in communities across a range of geographical contexts in the United States.
For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11946
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session five (of six), Kimberly Wieser presents about her CCG project, "Continuing Comanche Culture: Culture as Making, Craft as Shared Story." Rocío Del Águila presents about her work to document the Hispanic cultural heritages of Latino communities in Western Kansas. Queen Nur (Karen Abdul-Malik) presents about her CCG project, "Community on the Line: The Culture of R&B Urban Line Dancing in the Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware Tri-state Area." Session five concludes with a Q&A among the presenters, moderated by Robert Underwood (Board of Trustees, American Folklife Center). The Community Collections Grants program is a core component for the Library of Congress' Of the People: Widening the Path initiative, supported by the Mellon Foundation. Since 2022, the American Folklife Center has supported twenty-nine CCG projects, enabling community members to document contemporary music, dance, crafts, food traditions, community celebrations and sacred events in communities across a range of geographical contexts in the United States.
For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11946
