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September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 4

Everson, Merlene

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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 four (of six), Alex Lumelsky speaks about his work to preserve stories of the Chaldean community in the United States, a minority ethnic group from northern Iraq residing primarily in southeast Michigan. Laura Grant and Merlene Everson present about their documentation of nuwä (Kawaiisu) community members teaching younger nuwüm (Kawaiisu people) the traditional gathering and preparation practices used in the community’s foods and medicines. Session four concludes with a Q&A among the presenters, moderated by Amy Skillman (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.

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