- The Memoir Project was a decade-long project that touched all Boston neighborhoods, and we're proud to have been a part of it. We hope republish the five anthologies in the future.
- The Memoir Project. By Marion Roach Smith. Read a sample Read a sample Description; Details; Reviews; Read the 'practical resource for beginners' looking to write their own memoir because this is the essential guide on the topic — now new and revised (Kirkus Reviews)! The greatest story you could write is the one you experienced.
A limited edition project under The Sketchbook Project, The Memoir Project brings together a collective of people who want to share their stories, reflect and record both their personal histories and the history of the world around them.Through prose and/or visual medium, participants will contribute their memoir into a larger time capsule that documents the stories from our.
The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) acts as a connector, resource, and advocate through programs that connect communities to the arts, provide resources to artists and arts organizations to continue their work, and advocate for Bronx arts and culture. BCA's most recent programs include Artists Engage Talks and Convenings; the Bronx Artist Registry; the Cultural Assets Map (CAM); and the Cultural History Map (CHM). Our soon to be launched membership program will allow members to connect with each other and the arts through a unique set of offerings.
Connector Programs
The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) serves as a connector between Bronx arts and culture and the community. Our flagship program, the Longwood Arts Project, and other BCA public programs, such as the Bronx Memoir Project, provide Bronx residents with opportunities to engage directly with the arts. BCA Artist Residency and community programs bring the arts directly into underserved communities throughout the borough.
Resource Programs
For over 60 years, BCA has been a premier resource for Bronx artists and cultural organizations from every zip code in The Bronx. Through our regranting programs, the largest in the borough, we provide funding to support the work of artists and arts organizations and help bring the arts to the community. BCA's Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) awards foster artistic excellence through monetary awards for artists. Our professional development Artist Sustainability Workshop Series (ASWS), offers artists the tools to further develop their careers, and arts organizations the knowledge necessary to strengthen their practices.
Advocate Programs
The Bronx Council on the Arts advocates for cultural equity and inclusion, and envisions a world in which all people have creative agency, and knowledge of and access to the arts. BCA partners with other organizations, and engages in advocacy campaigns with partners to advance increased support for the arts at the borough, city, state and federal levels.
Upcoming Programs
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Memoir Mixtapes is a mashup of the two things we all love to talk about: ourselves and music.
Music never fails to evoke real emotions connected to real memories, however fleeting, superficial, profound, blissful, or distressing those emotions might be.
We know most of our fellow human beings can relate, and we think sharing the stories we have, along with the songs that conjure them, is a great way to connect with each other while building some pretty groovy (or, at the very least, very “interesting”) playlists in the process.
So here’s what we want to do, with your help:
We’ll be posting calls (with a prompt to guide your selection) for submissions on a regular basis, curating collections of your personal essays and poetry, and creating the accompanying playlists, so you can share them with your friends and people around the world.
If you’re interested in contributing writing to our volumes (which we publish every two to three months), check out the current call for submissions and get to it!
If you want to contribute, but you’re not ready to commit to a full-length creative piece, consider sharing a song recommendation with our community. We run one song recommendation a day, Monday through Friday. If you like a little less structure than our standard Volumes or song recommendations, you might also think about sending us a something for our Deep Cuts—the place for a little more experimentation on our site.
Welcome to the party. We hope you stick around for a while.
Samantha Lamph/Len & Kevin D. Woodall
(co-curators//co-editors)
The Feminist Memoir Project
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Examples Of A Memoir
If you have a question or general inquiry, or you just feel like saying “hi,” please feel free to email us at hello@memoirmixtapes.com or reach out to us via Twitter/Instagram/Facebook message.
The Memoir Project By Marion Roach Smith
Memoir Mixtapes is, at this time, a purely volunteer-run project; as such, we cannot pay our contributors (or even ourselves). We do what we do out of love of stories and music, and we rely on our contributors for the same.
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