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From Ethan Allen Homestead:

Our Songs Remember is a combination lecture and performance focusing on the ways in which the Abenaki oral traditions of storytelling and music play a part in the preservation of indigenous ways. Incorporating Pakholigan (the drum) and Pabekongan (the flute), father and son Joseph and Jesse Bruchac take you on a journey to the enduring roots of the Western Abenaki nations, showing how songs carry the heart and meaning of this enduring Native American culture.

Both English and Abenaki language are heard throughout the presentation and several stories are told that exemplify the way oral tradition has always served at least two purposes—to entertain and to instruct. A well-published author in many genres, Joseph Bruchac is a citizen and honored elder of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation. Jesse Bruchac, also an enrolled Nulhegan citizen, is the founder and Director of the School of Abenaki at Middlebury College, a musician, and frequent language consultant for television and movies. Both can be seen in the new PBS documentary MONADNOCK, The Mountain That Stands Alone, posted on joebruchac.com.

For more information: ethanallenhomestead.org

Presented by Chris Sabick, Executive Director at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.

For more information visit: eeevermont.org

From Ohavi Zedek Synagogue:

Zvi Jankelowitz, the Yiddish Book Center’s Director of Institutional Advancement, shares highlights of “Yiddish: A Global Culture”, the Center’s new permanent exhibition, and explains how the Center is at the forefront of technological advances, ensuring the accessibility of Yiddish books to Yiddish and non-Yiddish readers. Zvi shares clips from the Wexler Oral History Project, a growing collection of more than 1,200 video interviews about Yiddish language and culture — and also gives us a glimpse of what the future of Yiddish looks like for the 21st Century.

For more information: https://ohavizedek.org/

From ORCA Media:

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