Lotus Education and Arts Foundation presents
Seeds of Memory: Community and Institutional Memory Symposium
When: Saturday, July 27
Where:
1-5pm — Lotus office, 105 S. Rogers, Bloomington IN 47404
5:15-7pm —Bloomington Fine Arts Supply, 207 S. Rogers, Bloomington IN 47404
FREE, but please RSVP (details below)
Since January, Lotus has been working on the Lotus@30 project, an initiative to document our institutional memory through archiving and oral-history practices. With this symposium, we invite members of the broader Lotus and Bloomington communities to engage with and give feedback on the archive that has emerged from Lotus@30. Beyond simply documenting the history of the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation, we have come to better understand and appreciate the relationship between Lotus and Bloomington histories. Our stories have been and continue to be shared stories.
Seeds of Memory panelists are:
Jeremy Reed, Lotus@30 project manager; PhD Candidate, Indiana University-Bloomington (Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
LuAnne Holladay, Lotus@30 partner; retired arts administrator (Lotus Education and Arts Foundation); writer
Adriane Pontecorvo, WFHB programmer and PhD candidate, Indiana University-Bloomington (Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
Special guest:
Arwen Donahue, author of the graphic memoir Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year (Hub City) and the oral history collection This Is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivor’s Speak (University of Kentucky Press). Arwen’s comics, essays, and graphic stories have been featured in The Field Guide to Graphic Literature, Electric Literature, LitHub, The Nib, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
* Session 1, 1-2pm: Oral History, Methodology and Practice, with Arwen Donahue, Jeremy Reed, LuAnne Holladay, and Adriane Pontecorvo
* Session 2, 2:30-3:30pm: Lotus@30 Archive, Open Community Forum
* Session 3, 4-5pm: Lotus@30, a conversation with Arwen Donahue, LuAnne Holladay, and Jeremy Reed
* Reception + Lotus Collage at BFA: 5:15-7pm at Bloomington Fine Arts Supply (207 S. Rogers St.). Come collage with materials from the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation’s archives — making and remaking, playing with memories and mementoes to make new art that will be part of this year’s Lotus World Music and Arts Festival. The Lotus Collage at BFA will include a reception with food, drink, and convivial company.
>>> This event is FREE and open to the public, but we ask that you RSVP and indicate which sessions you plan to attend: https://forms.gle/r3tJiLns1Q2iu72N6