Kwanzaa

Practicing cultural sustainability through Seven Communal Principles

Umoja - Unity

Kujichagulia - Self Determination

Ujima - Collective Work and Responsibility

Ujamaa - Cooperative Economics

Nia - Purpose

Kuumba - Creativity

Imani - Faith

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African American Storytellers Retreat

Another great benefit of the MACS program is the administrative support and assistance students receive in attending conferences related to their focused area of  cultural sustainability.  I was able to document the African American Storytellers Retreat after taking Cultural Documentation with Harold Anderson, Ph.D.  This semester, in Field Lab with Andy Kolovos, Ph.D, the discourse extends into logging, archiving, and interviewing.  Oral History with Joel Gardner, Ph.D provides exemplary perspective and technique.  Our core text book is"Doing Oral History" by Donald A. Ritchie.  In 2012 after attending the retreat, I will add oral history interviews to the archived photos and video from 2011.  I  think that a mixed media course on photography and videography would be advantageous, especially for neo-phytes such as myself.  I rarely picked up a camera prior to MACS, not even while raising my children.   


In the meantime, if you have any suggestions after watching this video, please feel free to comment.

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