Local Cultures Project: Our Favourite Stories

Join us for our next Folklore Lunch presentation at noon on April 9, 2021. Jelena Pogosjan, Maryna Chernyavska, Maria Mayerchyk, and Matthias Kaltenbrunner will report on the project and share their favourite stories found in the interviews.

26 March 2021

Title: Local Cultures Project - Our Favourite Stories

When: 12 pm on Friday, April 9, 2021

Where: Zoom, register HERE 

Presenters: Jelena Pogosjan, Maryna Chernyavska, Maria Mayerchyk, Matthias Kaltenbrunner

Description: We will report on the 2019-2021 phase of the Local Cultures Project that aimed to index and make accessible hundreds of interviews recorded in 2003-2005 with people who remembered life on the Prairies before 1939. We will discuss tools and technologies used to make this large collection of audio interviews accessible, and share our favourite stories found in the interviews, as well as how these interviews were used in the creation of an exhibit and a children's book.

View the poster (PDF) here.