UACC Blog
Pauletta Hansel, Richard Hague, and Anthony Otten are the First Prize Winners of Still: The Journal Contest in Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Fiction
by Mike Templeton Some folks with strong connections to the Appalachian community and the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition specifically took high honors in Still: The Journal literary p...
Nancy Laird Spirit of Service Award
by Mike Templeton I finally got to sit down with Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Core Member Nancy Laird and talk about her work, receiving the Nancy Laird Spirit of Service Award from Healthy H...
The Express Urban Appalachian Showcase Follow Up
by Mike Templeton The Express Urban Appalachian Showcase on October 24 at the Aronoff offered so much it is difficult to decide where to begin to reflect on it all. From the opening voices to the chor...
Dee Marie at the Express Urban Appalachian Showcase
by Mike Templeton Of the many reasons Appalachian culture is so inexhaustible is that it is made up of so many elements. There is no single thread that defines Appalachian people, culture, and art. Th...
Express Urban Appalachian Showcase
by Mike Templeton We get pretty used to having the arts of Appalachia all around us in Cincinnati. You can go to the Comet in Northside on any Sunday night and likely hear the Comet Bluegrass Allstars...
Writing Our Roots: Cincinnati Young People’s Writing Contest
by Mike Templeton Young people have their own ways of pulling just about anything into the art that best expresses their time and place. For me, punk rock really captured the spirit of youth. Life fel...
Gurney Norman and Pauletta Hansel: A Reading of New Work about Appalachia
by Mike Templeton The setting for A Reading of New Work about Appalachia, readings by Gurney Norman and Pauletta Hansel was about as close to ideal is I could imagine. Roebling Point Books & Coffe...
Young Leaders Reflect: A Joyful Noise
In our Young Leaders Reflect series, UACC is sharing reflections from area students who participate in the Urban Appalachian Leadership Project (UALP). Through UALP, Appalachian Innovation Grants have...
Communication Specialist Position Announcement
UACC is seeking to contract for the services of a Communication Specialist. When the Urban Appalachian Council was incorporated in 1974, one of the most effective ways to reach out to our community wa...
Young Leaders Reflect: Express Appalachia Wide Open Mic
As our first group of UACC’s Urban Appalachian Leadership Project (UALP) participants finishes up their tenure we have invited them to share their reflections of having attended and produced cul...
Young Leaders Reflect: ASA Conference
Following up with the recent Appalachian Studies Association Conference, two of our Urban Appalachian Leadership Project grant recipients shared their experiences. Michael Thompson and Jeni Hall are s...
Express Appalachia
You’re Invited! Read all about these wonderful student leaders and their recent performance below. We hope to see you tonight, Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 6:30pm! Earlier this month Urban Appalach...
“Who We Are” a Journalism Class Poem
Thanks to a collaboration between the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, Oyler Community Learning Center and Thomas More University, Core Member Pauletta Hansel (who also serves as one of TMU’...
Celebrating Urban Appalachian Voices at Miami Hamilton
by Matthew Smith This fall Miami University’s Hamilton campus hosts a unique and exciting public program, reuniting three powerful voices of Appalachian poetry and storytelling. This free event, ent...
Appalachian Innovation Grants
UACC is kicking off this fall with some exciting news. Beginning this September —with our new Appalachian Innovation Grants— we will be working with and learning from Appalachian youth and youn...
Maloney and Hansel Receive ASA Awards
Urban Appalachian Community Coalition member Michael Maloney and Pauletta Hansel were honored April 6 at the 41st Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference held in downtown Cincinnati. The con...
UACC’s Brewery Taproom Tour Mixes History & Beer
On Thursday, April 5, the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition is hosting a Cincinnati Brewery Taproom Tour as part of the 41st Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference’s evening activitie...
Appalachian Spoken Word and Hip Hop
by John Bealle In several key sites in the Appalachian region, there is a movement rising to develop spoken word arts from urban African American tradition as a means to foster social change, communit...