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LOGGER'S SHEET 121 LOGGER: Lori Taylor REEL NUMBER: 9 STAGE: AFS DATE: 6/27/1988 PRESENTOR: Worth Long GROUP NAME: Building Community Networks REGION/STYLE: PERFORMERS(S) Worth Long (filmmaker - Atlanta, GA) Von Martin (Metro DC Program Advisory Board - Wash,DC) Nora Davenhauer (narrative specialist - Juneau,AK) Sign Language Interpreter - Diane Mele - Beaudoin INSTRUMENTS/OCCUPATION WPFW - FM WPFW radio broadcaster Contents Intro- 1. ND- Community assistance program w/in [Tlingit] community, emergency 2. VM- Trinadian community cooperation in DC, immigration 3. OC- as fieldworkers, they use these help networks for the purpose of cultural work. 4. WL- community across geographic boundaries North Carolina to Harlem - non-urgent model of help network. 5. VM- his Caribbean radio program as a way for West Indians in DC to find another. REpatriating assistance. 6. ND- narrative as a grounding in comfort culture. 7. Easy to find mediators? 8. OC- hispanics stepping into one anothers communities - often because of langauge 9. VM- as the community gets larger, nationalization takes place not Caribbean People but Jamaican, Trinadadan, Domincan 10. ND- Alaskan Natives are very organization oriented when there is need they come together - politically, socially 11. OC- rather than [[melting]],kids grow up bi/tricultural 12. Opposites forces? coming togher/politicization is, folklorists looking for particularity 13. ND- on melting pot