December 2008 Archives

We now have video of a traditional lion dance available. You'll find it linked to the Promise of Gold Mountain videos page and Music of the Southwest. The video was shot by staff at Pima Community College at the January 2008 event at the Tucson Chinese Community Center and captured/encoded for streaming on the Web by staff in the Learning Technologies Center. Our thanks to everyone who contributed to making this happen.

Our thanks to Yen H. "Gary" Low who volunteered his time to the Chinese Community to teach children lion dance traditions and who secured the requisite permissions from the parents of the children performing the lion dance.

"StoryCorps, which airs Friday mornings in Tucson and Southern Arizona on Public Radio stations KUAZ 89.1 FM and 1550 AM, is a national initiative that has been documenting the everyday histories and the unique stories of Americans for the past five years. ... The StoryCorps mobile StoryBooth - an Airstream trailer outfitted with a recording studio - will be parked at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library's Jacome Plaza at 101 N. Stone Avenue. Parking is available in the library parking garage via the entrance on Alameda Street, located just west of Stone. The dates are Dec. 4 - 17 and Jan. 5 - 17. Interview times will run from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, and 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Reservations are strongly encouraged, and can be made either online at www.storycorps.net or by calling 1-800-850-4406."

read the full article from UANews.