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People's History Expedition on Upper Mississippi: A Reportback

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Date:
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Time:
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Event Type:
Other
Organizer/Author:
SubRosa
Address:
703 Pacific Avenue
Location Details:
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.
Downtown Santa Cruz

A Secret History of American River People from the deck of a traditional shantyboat

Santa Cruz artist Wes Modes built a traditional shantyboat to float down American rivers to gather the lost stories of river people. He and the crew just returned from the Mississippi where they spent part of the summer interviewing dozens of people who work and live on the river. The collection will serve as an archive for future scholars as well as be publicly-accessible online. When not on the river, the shantyboat itself serves as the project library and archive and will be temporarily sited at museums and galleries starting with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in November.

On Thursday September 11th, he will offer a reportback on the journey, with photos, video, and reportbacks from the rest of the crew.

Secret History Expedition Reportback
Thursday September 11 at 7pm
SubRosa Community Space
703 Pacific Ave, Downtown Santa Cruz

In late July, after an epic cross-country journey, California artists Wes Modes and Kai launched the shantyboat on the Mississippi River starting in Minneapolis. Joined by Jeremiah for awhile, they floated for five weeks over several hundred river miles, stopping in big and little town to interview river people. The journey is detailed in the project website at http://peoplesriverhistory.us/

Secret History is an art and history journey to discover, present, and connect the lost narratives of working-class river communities from the deck of a recreated shantyboat. A few generations ago, communities of shantyboats, or rustic houseboats, lined the banks of the river in every river town in America. Now they are mostly gone and soon the stories will be lost as well. The project is an attempt to capture and preserve some of these stories for current and future generations.
Added to the calendar on Sat, Sep 6, 2014 8:51PM
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