December 10, 2014 — Over the past 10 years, the Working Waterfront Festival has recorded every performance and conversation on its stages, creating a rich audio archive of music, fisher poetry, storytelling, and more. This year the festival received funding from Mass Humanities to support the work of a scholar in residence, Diana Lempel, to listen to the narrative stage audio recordings and help use them to foster an understanding of family and community identity in the commercial fishing industry.
Lempel will be sharing some of the most compelling moments from the festival’s narrative stage as part of the December AHA night on Thursday, Dec. 11. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. at the National Park Theater at 33 William St. in New Bedford. A multi-media exhibit of her work can be viewed at https://shiptoshore2014.wordpress.com/.
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