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ECO-LORE has a mission to connect environmental awareness with the cultural landscape. Edifying the human condition through the intersectionality of environmental sustainability and cultural expression tied to tradition and folklore.


The Land Has Memories

The Coalition to Save Thoroughfare

2024 National Guild Conference
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2024 National Guild Conference

The National Guild for Community Arts Education plays a pivotal role as a hub and haven for arts education-focused organizations and teaching artists. It provides a platform for sharing ideas and securing resources, enabling the spread of the gift of arts education. Their involvement in the artistic disciplines is instrumental in ensuring the long-term success and impact of arts education.

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2024 Poetry Out loud
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2024 Poetry Out loud

"If time does not sleep and waits for no one. Then, I must capture my moments and escape having committed my crimes. It is the only way I would have secured my piece of the flourished discoveries stored away secretly deep within times mind."

— William Patterson, Poet

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The Land Has Memories
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The Land Has Memories

The Coalition to Save Thoroughfare is a non-profit and community of Indigenous and African Americans. The current goal is to stop the desecration of family burial sites that consist of Fletcher Allen, Potters Field, & Scott cemeteries.

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2024 Smithsonian Folk Festival
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2024 Smithsonian Folk Festival

“We always have our ancestors at our back... This connection assures us that when we move forward, we can never be lost because we always know how to get back home. The future is a realm we have inhabited for thousands of years.”

—Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

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Douglass Cemetery
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Douglass Cemetery

Frederick Douglass Memorial Cemetery located at 1421 Wilkes Street in Alexandria, VA. It dates back to the early 1800s. Black residents of Alexandria named this burial ground after the great activist Frederick Douglass soon after he died in 1895. Well over 2000 African Americans are buried here with several hundred born into slavery and then freed. Two hundred are children, some who were stillborn and some who only lived very short lives. Records indicate that of 2000 buried here, approximately six to seven hundred headstones are present.

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