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We just heard about this amazing program coming from the Authentic Opera Company and the Face Off Theatre Company. Tangled Roots is a “one-act opera rooted in memory, ancestry, and the presence of those who came before us.” The opera takes its inspiration from oral histories with the survivors of slavery conducted by the Federal Writers’ Project between 1936 and 1938.

This is such an amazing way to make history come alive for a modern audience. With support from the Kalamazoo College Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, Authentic and Face Off will perform the opera at the Festival Playhouse of Kalamazoo College on June 19 at 7pm to commemorate Juneteenth. It’s free and open to the public! To all our friends near Kalamazoo, check it out! Learn more at https://www.authenticoperacompany.com/tangledroots

The People’s Recorder also tells the stories of these interviews, especially those done in Virginia, in episodes 2 and 3. Find them wherever you get your podcasts or at the YouTube links below.

Episode 2 – A New Kind of History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsAt73ozuak
Episode 3 – A Lost Cause? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxAK-FaqijU

Those episodes were produced with support from Virginia Humanities and National Endowment for the Humanities.

And to think that our connection started with a simple domain sale!

Fifteen years later, we’re still connected. Paul Carlin has just started Elite Finishing Labs, a space for indies to get top rate finishing, color, conform and broadcast deliverables, without all the corporate overhead. Check him out at https://elitefinishinglabs.com

Wishing him lots of great projects, good humans, smooth exports and plenty of inspirational sparks ahead!