[UNF-DHI] DHI Project Spotlight: Water Stories

[Gellers, Joshua]

Colleagues-

In an effort to raise the profile of DHI projects and promote the excellent DH-related work of faculty, students, and staff at UNF, we will be sharing regular updates via this list and coordinating with Media Relations to achieve broader exposure.

For this initial DHI Project Spotlight, I’d like to share news about Water Stories, the collaborative, interdisciplinary effort spearheaded by Dr. Maureen McCluskey and Dr. Tru Leverette Hall.

Water Stories
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Photo Title: “Access”
Photography by Christine Vu
Costume Design: Shelly Lindemann
Direction: Dr Maureen McCluskey, Dr Tru Leverette Hall, and Craig Pedroza
Cast Members: Rayanna Campbell, Miles Genaovargas, Louis Bell, Naomi Randolph, Monyel Poole, Dawn King, and Victoria Mapayi

Description:
The arts and humanities further environmental justice work and thread together human connections to nature and humans' connections to each other. This project, developed by Dr. Tru Leverette Hall and Dr. Maureen McCluskey, uses storytelling and theater to gather communities, translate environmental land memory, frame conversations on environmental justice, and foster communal healing and positive connections to nature through shared embodied experience. Water Stories: A River Harvest showcases theatrical movements based on oral histories of African American experiences with the natural world. Like the griot (storyteller) figure of the African diasporic tradition, Water Stories: A River Harvest gives voice to underheard stories and demonstrates that the stories we tell (and who has a platform to tell them) shape our environmental justice work (and vice versa).

Check out the Water Stories digital reel, available here<“Digital%20Reel:%20Water%20Stories”%20:%20https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5RIVQGO4To>.

Upcoming Event:
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Join Dr. Maureen McCluskey & Dr. Tru Leverette Hall for this exhibit featuring an original soundscape by Water Stories’ digital composer and UNF alumni, Naijah Cox, and designs by UNF student, Christine Vu. We hope to see you there!

Best,

Josh
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Joshua C. Gellers, PhD, LEED Green Associate
Professor, Political Science & Public Administration
Director, MA in International Affairs Program
University of North Florida

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