Two BCLP-Connected Oral History Projects
We are very excited to tell you about two fascinating oral history projects that members of our BCLP leadership team have helped to make possible: Dougla Lives: At the Intersections This project, a part of SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive), was curated by...
BCLP Celebrates its 10th Birthday with Cake and Testimonies
By Jessica Siegel The Brooklyn College Listening Project celebrated its 10th Birthday in December 2024 with a Junior’s cheesecake and panel of Brooklyn College students and their interviewees sharing their experiences (click here for the YouTube video of the...
Tenement Museum Series Features BCLP Immigration Exhibition
By Leah Shaw Next week, the Brooklyn College Listening Project's new exhibition We Are Brooklyn: Immigrant Voices will be featured by the Tenement Museum in their Tenement Talks Series. The museum celebrates immigration to the Lower East Side by recreating the lives...
NY1 Noticias Reports On BCLP’s We Are Brooklyn: Immigrant Voices Exhibition
By Leah Shaw The Brooklyn College Listening Project will receive Spanish-language coverage on NY1's Spanish-language channel this week for the new multi-media exhibition celebrating Brooklyn's immigrants through oral histories told in their own voices. Project...
New BCLP Exhibition Celebrates Brooklyn’s Immigrants
By Leah Shaw The Brooklyn College Listening Project celebrates the diverse, vibrant and unique city of Brooklyn with a new multi-media exhibition that opened this week in the Brooklyn College main lobby. The exhibition featuring the stories of immigrants and children...
BC Listening Project Hosts Brunch with Edwidge Danticat
By Sandy Mui “Everyone has a story has a story to tell.” That is a motto the Brooklyn College Listening Project has lived by in its three years of existance. On March 28, four BC students presented their interviewees’ stories to Edwidge Danticat, the Haitian-American...
Fall 2016 End-of-Semester Celebration
Twenty-seven Brooklyn College students stood in a semi-circle at the Brooklyn College Listening Project’s end-of-semester celebration, each transforming themselves through words into the person that they interviewed for their oral history: “As a child, I was,” said...
