The Association for Cultural Equity's Endangered Cultures Initiative (ECI) program provides opportunities for individuals to document, record, and archive their at-risk traditions. ECI's place primary documentation in the hands of cultural activists, as it aims to motivate young people and non-traditional scholars to work with and for their communities in education, program building, communications, and social media. Engaging community support and assistance to build consensus, ECI fellows document the span of their expressive traditions--they learn to archive, catalog and describe their documentation, edit it into appropriate viewing and listening formats, then return it to their communities, who take full ownership. With community consent, copies are deposited in regional and world libraries, as every effort is made to maintain and sustain endangered cultures and the aesthetics, significance, and social and cultural value of a people's patrimony, past, present and future.
Project Website: click here State: Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania Category: Apprenticeship, Creative Placemaking, Cultural Equity & Sustainability, Education, Equity & Social Justice, Publishing & Creative Content, Underserved Community Outreach |