Program

Public Programs: Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs)

Period of Performance

6/15/2020 - 12/31/2020

Funding Totals

$132,000.00 (approved)
$132,000.00 (awarded)


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.