Video Storytelling and El Museo del Barrio

FAIN: ZPP-283227-22

Rhode Island Latino Arts (Providence, RI 02907-1353)
Marta V. Martinez (Project Director: May 2021 to July 2023)

Creation of a multigenerational video for the El Museo del Barrio, an outdoors living museum to be installed on Broad Street, South Providence, Rhode Island.

El Museo del Barrio will provide space to train young Latinos to become “junior oral historians.” We will pair youth with elders to have conversations and encourage them to connect with their own community history and to see the relevancy of the past to their own lives. A bilingual videographer will mentor the youth to create video interviews that will become part of an existing Latino Archives Collections.