Memories of Migration with Queens Library and New New Yorkers Program

Bring an image from your earliest home and an image of your most recent home. In this workshop, you will us these images to illustrate the story of your journey from one home to the other, whether they that journey took you across Queens, or across the world. We will share your stories and learn techniques for getting great interviews with family members and other who have wisdom and experiences we want to preserve. The workshop will include a guided tour of the Zhang Hongtu exhibit, with a discussion of how the artist’s own journey from China to the United States is captured in art.

Queens Memory is an oral history program at Queens Library whose mission to record contemporary life in the borough of Queens. To do this, the program offers training and support to volunteers intersted in conducting interviews with the borough’s residents, and photographing Queens’ dynamic events and places.

Queens Memory Director, Natalie Milbrodt and Queens Memory Outreach Coordinator, Yingwen Huang will lead this workshop along with Queens Museum’s New New Yorkers Program staff. Since the founding of the Queens Memory in 2010, the Queens Memory team has provided oral history and digitization instruction to hundreds of New Yorkers interested in conducting interviews and documenting their communities.

Join us to share your stories and learn about oral history interview techniques with Queens Library.

Bring an image from your earliest home and an image of your most recent home.

Program in English

Registration required. To register, Please contact Nung-Hsin Hu (718) 596-9700 x133
nung-hsin@queensmuseum.org