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Title: A Story in Motion: Johana
Date: April 28, 2023
Creator: Grandas, Ludy
Description: A Story in Motion: Johanna features Johanna, a former resident but current elementary school teacher in the Mt Pleasant neighborhood in Washington, DC, shares how the process of gentrification impacted her community and transformed her neighborhood. film created by Ludy Grandas, presented at the Humanities Truck Film Festival on April 28, 2023 at American University.
Subject: film festival, film, A Story in Motion: Johanna, Ludy Grandas
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Film Festival 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: A Story in Motion: Isabella
Date: April 28, 2023
Creator: Grandas, Ludy
Description: A Story in Motion: Isabella features Isabella, a young immigrant woman who arrived in DC as an adolescent, shares how the experience of living in DC moved her emotions and cultural identity even closer to her native Colombia. film by Ludy Grandas, presented at the Humanities Truck Film Festival on April 28, 2023 at American University.
Subject: film festival, film, A Story in Motion: Isabella, Ludy Grandas
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Film Festival 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Eliza
Date: April 28, 2023
Creator: Grandas, Ludy
Description: Eliza is a short documentary that tells the powerful story of a Salvadoran woman who migrated to the United States more than a decade ago and is now a volunteer and truck driver in DC. Her new life has been interesting, but great joy came along when she could drive a big truck once more. film is by Ludy Grandas and was presented at the Humanities Truck Film Festival at American University on April 28, 2023.
Subject: film festival, film, Eliza, Ludy Grandas
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Film Festival 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Hard Choices
Date: April 28, 2023
Creator: Stokes, Benjamin
Description: film Hard Choices by Benjamin Stokes, presented at the Humanities Truck Film Festival at American University on April 28, 2023.
Subject: film festival, film, Benjamin Stokes, Hard Choices
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Film Festival 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Voices Heard Along Penn Ave SE
Date: April 28, 2023
Creator: Stokes, Benjamin
Description: Voices Heard Along Penn Ave SE film created by Benjamin Stokes, presented at the Humanities Truck Film Festival on April 28, 2023.
Subject: film festival, film
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Film Festival 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: East of the River
Date: April 28, 2023
Creator: Elsiwi, Amin; Bouknight, Phil; Madison, Jeffrey
Description: East of the River begins with the tragic death of a young boy named Kelvin Mock, who died in a trash burn in the landfill that preceded Kenilworth Park in North East Washington, DC. The film tells the story of the Kenilworth area from a landfill to a park and provides a space for the residents to share their memories that had a connection to Kenilworth Landfill. The film was created by Amin Elsiwi, Phil Bouknight, and Jeffrey Madison. This film got into three film festivals: DC Independent Film Festival, Bethesda film festival, Community stories film festival that is organized by Docs in Progress. It was also presented at the Humanities Truck Film Festival on April 28, 2023 at American University.
Subject: film festival, film, East of the River, Amin Elsiwi, Phil Bouknight, Jeffrey Madison
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Film Festival 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Out of Our Shells
Date: April 28, 2023
Creator: Sinnreich, Aram
Description: Using the Humanities Truck as a mobile recording studio, the Out of Our Shells team selected 14 DMV-area musical artists across a range of styles, genres, generations, nationalities, ethnicities, languages, and neighborhoods, and provided each one with a professional-quality recording of their work. Each artist retained the full rights to their work, while granting non-commercial use for it under an open license. film created by Aram Sinnreich. presented at the Humanities Truck film festival on April 28, 2023 at American University.
Subject: film festival, film, Aram Sinnreich, Out of Our Shells
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Film Festival 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: A Story in Motion: Morelys
Date: April 28, 2023
Creator: Grandas, Ludy
Description: A Story in Motion: Morelys features Morelys, a Dominican young woman, shares her recent immigration experience to DC., the transformation of her poetry and her engagement for a better world. film by Ludy Grandas, presented at the Humanities Truck Film Festival on April 28, 2023 at American University.
Subject: film festival, film, A Story in Motion: Morelys, Ludy Grandas
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Film Festival 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 1
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: participants start the parade and get familiar with the chants
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 3
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: volunteers carry casket while event coordinators and members of the public follow behind and chant
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 5
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: event organizer, Christina Cole, leads participants through chants
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 2
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: front of the march, chants continue
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 4
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: the crowd moves forward
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 6
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: participant talks about recently deceased friend David Ashmore
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 7
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: participant talks about the districts need to help solve the homelessness problem
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 8
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: participants encourages crowd to join in in the fight for change
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 9
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: participants dance beside the humanities truck and tent
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: AUnion Event Video
Date: May 1, 2023
Creator: Macrae, Lachlan
Description: One student dances and sings while another writes an answer to a question on the butcher paper hung on the side of the Humanities Truck.
Subject: AUnion: Let's Strike; public history; Humanities Truck; Anna Kaplan; Lachlan Macrae
Country: United States
Collection: AUnion: Let's Strike!
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Either Or Otter Corps Convocation Photos, 1973-Present, Slideshow from "Portland Convocation - A Moment in Time Reunion - July 26-29, 2012 - Special Thanks to Jim Poplack, Jim Hicks, Fritz Laurenovics"
Date: 2012
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Slide slow created by returned Peace Corps Volunteer Ron Dizon, who served in Afghanistan from 1971 to 1973. This slide show displays personal photographs of Peace Corps volunteers taken after their service concluded in 1973, including photographs of post-service reunions at Yosemite National Park and in Las Vegas, Nevada, among others. It was presented during the volunteers' 2012 Moment in Time Reunion in Portland, Oregon.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Anecdotes
Country: United States
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0101
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Memorial service for W. Dennis Grubb, Washington National Cathedral, November 16, 2021
Date: 2021-11-22
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: This video shows the funeral service for former Peace Corps Volunteer W. Dennis Grubb, which took place at the Washington National Cathedral on November 16th, 2021. W. Dennis Grubb began serving in the Peace Corps at age 19 in 1961, shortly after the program was launched by then-President John F. Kennedy, Jr. Stills of the Cathedral's ceilings, stone carvings, and stained glass windows are shown throughout the first minutes of the service while an organ plays in the background. The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope, Provost of the National Cathedral, presided over the service. Journalist Maureen Orth, activist and philanthropist Timothy Shriver, Suleiman Vasti, and the Rev. Cope gave eulogies of Mr. Grubb in celebration and remembrance.
Subject: Funerals; Volunteers -- Colombia
Country: United States
Subject -- Personal Name: Cope, Jan Naylor; Orth, Maureen; Shriver, Timothy
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Grubb_0001
Type: memorial services
Collection: W. Dennis Grubb Collection, Friends of Colombia Archive
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

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