This year's Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic
Region (OHMAR) Fall Conference will be held in Philadelphia, Pa. The conference
will focus on oral history in the region, providing a rich sampling of
oral history topics, techniques, projects, and participants.
Friday, October 5
(Pre-registration required)
Workshops. Workshops, limited to 20 each, will be held at
WHYY Inc., 150 N. 6th Street, Philadelphia
- 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Introduction to Oral History
Presenter: Roger Horowitz, Associate Director, Center
for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and
Library
- 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Field Recording Equipment and Its Use
Leaders: Charles Hardy, West Chester University, and Steve
Rowland, CultureWorks
Evening Program
Chambers Wiley Church, University of the Arts, 315 South Broad Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19102
- 7:00 p.m.Special Evening Program
Public screening of excerpts from recent oral-history based video documentaries,
produced by "MacArthur Genius Award" winner and filmmaker Louis Massiah
and other Scribe producers. Massiah will introduce and answer questions
about his new documentaries on Louise Thompson Patterson and his Oral
History of Broad Street project.
Saturday, October 6
Sessions to be held at the Chambers Wiley Church, University of
the Arts, 3150 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
- 8:30 a.m. Registration and Coffee
- 9:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m. Welcome by Donita Moorhus,
president of OHMAR.
- 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Folk Arts, Community Oral History, and Sound
Ethnography in Philadelphia
Chair: Debra Kodish, Director, The Philadelphia Folklore
Project
Panelists:
Lois Fernandez, Founder of the Odunde festival
Deborah Wei, Co-founder of Asian Americans United; Curriculum
Specialist, School District of Philadelphia.
Barry Dornfeld, Director, Communication Program, University
of the Arts, "Sound Ethnography in a Multimedia Collaboration."
- 11:00 a.m.-12 noon Oral History and the Long-Form Sound Documentary
Presenter: Steve Rowland, Cultureworks. Rowland will talk
about his award-winning radio series on 20th century musicians and composers.
- 12 noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch. Conference participants can eat lunch
at one of Center City's numerous restaurants.
- 1:00 p.m. OHMAR Business Meeting
- 2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Oral History and Video
Chair: Louis Massiah, Director, Scribe Video Center
Panelists:
Tina Morton, Independent
Dorothea Braemer, Termite TV Collective
- 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. Who Will Preserve Our Tapes? An Open Forum
on the State of Sound Archives in the Philadelphia Region
Chair: Charles Hardy, West Chester University
Panelists:
Margaret Jerrido, Archivist and Head of the Urban
Archives, Temple University
Kenneth Finkel, WHYY's Executive Director of Arts & Culture
Service
George Blood, Sound archivist and recording engineer
