Series 8: Harborlore: Where the River Meets the Sea in Brooklyn's Folk Imagination
Scope and Contents
Program Files include project expenses, funding and budget information, promotional materials, event planning documents and evaluation forms. The largest group in this sub-series includes press clippings, articles, notices of events, and other materials relating to the way in which water is considered in Brooklyn by its residents and government. Also included is material relating to climate change, Hurricane Sandy, and governmental policies pertaining to water and water use.
The Audiovisual sub-series includes digital photographs, video, and audio documentation of Harborlore events. Also included is video interviews done in connection with the Harborlore project. See program files for interview releases and transcripts. Please note that not every interview includes a transcript.
Historical Note
Harborlore: Where the River Meets the Sea in Brooklyn's Folk Imagination was a series of twelve free dance, music and storytelling events throughout Brooklyn exploring the role of water in the artistic traditions of the borough's immigrant and diaspora communities post Hurricane Sandy.
The program featured folk arts such as tashlich, a Rosh Hashanah (New Year) rite of renewal performed at the East River (among other places) by observant Jews; the life-size symbolic boats paraded at Scandinavian and Italian festivals in Bay Ridge and Williamsburg; the baptismal spirituals such as "Dip Them Leeward" sung in the African-Caribbean churches of East Flatbush; songs and chants sung in praise of water deities, such as the African-Brazilian mother of the ocean, Yemaja, and a fishing feast dance called hukila from Hawaii.
Sub-series 8.1: Program Files
Expenses, 2013
Funding, NEA Grant, 2013
Publicity, 2013
Oversize Posters, 2013
Participants, Permissions, 2013
Participants, Contracts, 2013
Participants, Staff, 2013
Core Artist Meeting, 2013
Harborlore Opening Concert, Salute to Irving Burgie, 2013
Sailing the Symbolic, Symposium on Brooklyn's Diverse Water Traditions, 2013
Water in Brooklyn's Folk Imagination, 2013
Bay Ridge Harbor Traditions Then and Now, Viking Fest, 2013
Fish Tales, The Big One, The Magical One, The One That Got Away, 2013
Hands Across the Harbor, 2013
Songs of the Sea, Banana Boat Songs and Sea Shanties, 2013
Danced Invocations for Red Hook Recovery, 2013
Dancing in the Waters, 2013
Tribute to Our Ancestors of the Middle Passage, 2013
Sandylore Symposium, Cultural Knowledge as a Resource for Disaster Response, 2013
Waterlore at Water's Edge, 2013
Evaluations, 2013
Supplementary Programs, 2013
Arts and Crafts Exhibitors, 2013
Boats and Boat Building, 2013
City Planning and the Waterfront, 2013
Research, Caribbean, 2013
Research, Climate Change, 2013
Research, Coastal Engineering, 2013
Research, Dance, 2013
Research, East River and NY Harbor, 2013
Research, Film, 2013
Research, The Harbor in the Media, 2013
Research, Historic Ships, 2013
Research, Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, 2013
Research, Maps, 2013
Research, Maritime Folklife Resources, 2013
Context, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance Annual Report, 2011
Context, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance Annual Report, 2012
Context, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance Annual Report, 2013
Research, Museums and Nonprofits, 2013
Research, Neighborhoods, 2013
Research, Norwegians, 2013
Research, Other Festivals and Programs, 2013
Sailor's Valentines, 2013
Research, Superstorm Sandy, 2013
Research, Tashlich, Jewish Tradition at Rosh Hashanah, 2013
Research, Water and Healing, 2013
Research, Water Festivals, 2013
Research, Waterway Rides, 2013
Research, Workers- Longshoremen, Sand Hogs, Ferryboat Men, 2013
Research, Yemen, Fishing Songs, 2013
Interviews, Transcript: James Lovell, 2013
Interviews, Transcripts: George Davidson, 2013
Interviews, Transcript: Winston "Jeggae" Hoppie, 2013
Interview, Transcript: E. Wayne McDonald, 2013
Interview, Transcript: Gabriella Dennery, 2013
Sub-series 8.2: Audiovisual
Scope and Contents
Events represented in the Audiovisual sub-series include:
Harborlore Core Artist Meeting May 5, 2013.
Sailing the Symbolic: Symposium of Brooklyn's Diverse Water Traditions Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch, Dweck Auditorium, May 11, 2013.
Bay Ridge Harbor Traditions Then and Now Held at Viking Festival, Owl's Head Park/Bliss Park, May 18, 2013.
Hands Across the Harbor Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, May 25, 2013.
Songs of the Sea: Banana Boat Songs and Sea Shanties Jalopy Music Theatre, Red Hook, May 30, 2013.
Danced Invocations for Red Hook Recovery Held at the 20th annual Red Hook Fest, Coffey and Ferris Streets, Red Hook June 1, 2013.
Dancing the Waters Kaiser Park, Coney Island, June 2, 2013.
Sandylore Symposium: Cultural Knowledge as a Resource for Disaster Response The Actors fund Center, Downtown Brooklyn, June 13, 2013.
Waterlore at the Water's Edge Brooklyn Bridge Park, June 15, 2013.
Interviews:
Aeilushi Mistry, January 22, 2013
James Lovell, February 9, 2013
George Davidson, Guyana water lore, February 15, 2013
Wrichford "Rich" Dalgetty, February 22, 2013
Seetha Wickramasuriya, October 10, 2013
Annie Fedous, Bangladeshi vessel dance, October 18, 2012
Nisha Hettiarachchi, no date
E. Wayne McDonald, July 2, 2013
Gabriella Dennery, July 12, 2013
