Appalshop and the Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project at Lafayette College form a partnership and create a strategic investment plan that simultaneously supports the economic development of Appalshop and its Appalachian region.

Through a virtual and in-person exchange and collaboration, Zuni and Appalachian youth will get to know each other by creating and exchanging media productions that communicate elements of their places and cultures, their wishes and dreams, their fears and...

If the story cannot be told fully and truthfully because the audience is too narrow, then the audience IQ has to be raised by including a broad cross-section of the community in its midst.

The American Festival Project used a careful process that encouraged communities to untangle the complex webs that oppressed and divided them, to imagine change, and to promote creative expression as a means of fighting injustice in all forms.

A collaboration with Cancer survivors in North Carolina and West Virginia to create plays from their communities' cancer stories and perform them at cancer detection and prevention events.

Local folk work together through low cost media to define and address the barriers that prevent their communities from enjoying such things as access to health care, a safe environment, new technology, economic development, and more.

An annual three-day performance and cultural festival in Fresno, California celebrating the traditions of indigenous and immigrant communities of the Central Valley

Community partners add the voices of Cherokee tradition keepers and descendants of African slaves to an annual Appalachian pre-Revolutionary War historical reenactment and trade fair.

Our tested storytelling method for empowering community members.