Musical Memories of 27th and E.Lake: Festive ritual traditions of diasporic migrants
Multilingual research, oral history collection, print publications, video documentary and community round tables regarding the history of culturally-diverse Latin American immigrant diaspora festive traditions held at 27th Ave. and E. Lake St. in south Minneapolis, when it was the Mexican music venues El Nuevo Rodeo and previously Vannandy?s, that was a vibrant social context for culturally-diverse festive ritual traditions and socialization in a South Side cultural and commercial crossroads.
2022-2023 Cultural Heritage and Community Identity Grants - Spring 2022
The measurable outcomes of this project are the following: multilingual documentary research, oral history collection, print publication, video documentary production, website creation, and community project release events/round tables.
The desired outcomes from the activities planned in the project are: interaction with deliverables by local community members, stakeholders in the project theme, and multilingual international public, usage of deliverables as vectors of Memory and Identity for intergenerational mediated oral transmission of ritual festive traditions, increased media visibility of project themes and protagonists.
No changes have been made to our project goals and/or outcomes. The following grant activities that have occurred to-date are:
Preliminary fieldwork has been carried out (i.e. audiovisual documentation of community events such as Cinco de Mayo in Minneapolis).
Potential oral history interview subjects have been identified.
Documentary research has been carried out in archives of memory institutions such as Minnesota Historical Society and University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Purchases have been made of audiovisual equipment and supplies in preparation for audiovisual fieldwork with oral history interviewees, documentary research, and audiovisual documentation of community event.
Institutional contacts have been made with researchers of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), including meetings with UNAM researchers conducting academic fieldwork in the Twin Cities.
Total sources of funding:
* MN Humanities Center - $20,000 (Awarded to Franklin Curbelo)
* MN State Arts Board - $10,000 (Awarded to Jose Curbelo)
* MN Historical Society - $8,000 (Awarded to A World of Accordion Museum, to contract audiovisual oral history professional to carry out interviews)Total project funding to-date: $38,000 Notes: Supplemental funding can still be made from private parties via the fiscal sponsorship of 501(c)3 FilmNorth.