The Corona Chronicles: Documenting, Archiving and Disseminating Creative Responses to the Corona Virus Era
FAIN: GA-274595-20
City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture (New York, NY 10003-9345)
Steve Zeitlin (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2022)
The retention of four staff members to create an archive on the coronavirus in New York City.
The Corona Chronicles is a major new project developed by City Lore to document and preserve the folk culture that has developed in response the COVID-19 epidemic and it has already seen us collect hundreds of songs, poems, videos and other material. It will secure 4 positions at the organization.