Dr. Kitty Oliver presents a 1-hour lecture-style workshop on sharing oral histories as part of Jax Book Fest. This workshop is sponsored by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Writing Stories, Lifting Voices, Sharing Lives: Oral History 101
Join creative writer, scholar, oral history storyteller, and performing artist Dr. Kitty Oliver for a thought-provoking, entertaining journey through the complexities of collecting, writing, and preserving the stories and histories of marginalized communities today. This workshop blends memories, music, research, and reflections from a cross-cultural selection of narrators, and offers strategies of the Lift Every Voice Writing Project for building bridges across races and cultures in communities.
Dr. Kitty Oliver is an author, oral historian, media producer, and recording artist as well as a former journalist and university writing professor. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and a Ph.D.in Comparative Studies focusing on race and ethnic communication and gender studies.
She is founder of the landmark cross-cultural Race and Change Initiative oral history archive in Special Collections at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale and in the American Folklife Center’s Civil Rights Project. The archive features life histories and racial experiences of over 125 self-described Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Latinos, Caribbeans, and Asians living in Florida.
Her books, as well as her public television productions and radio webcasts on Race and Change, have been used widely by schools and colleges and in the Lift Every Voice Writing Project community presentations that she conducts nationally. The memoir Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl chronicles growing up in Jacksonville during segregation, and living an integrated life and her collections of oral histories have served as models for community oral history projects.
Dr. Oliver’s work has been featured on CNN, and she shares Race and Change memories in the Ron Howard documentary film on the Beatles “Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years” and the film “Oscar Peterson Black + White,” both streaming on Hulu. www.kittyoliveronline.com.
This workshop is presented as part of Jax Book Fest 2024 and sponsored by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
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Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodations for persons with disabilities are available upon request. Please allow 1–2 business days to process. Last-minute requests will be accepted, but may not be possible to fulfill. Please ask for Learning Services at 255-2665 or email JPLPrograms@coj.net.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Authors, Books, and Writing |
TAGS: | mellon grant | jax book fest | adult programs |
