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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...
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...
Appalachia: Stay Or Go?
Blog by Rosie Carpenter Rosie Carpenter serves as UACC’s new Volunteer Coordinator, through the AmeriCorps Program. Rosie has a BA in Anthropology with certificates in Historic Preservation and Heri...
Ringin’ in an Appalachian New Year: A Cultural Celebration
by Rosie Carpenter On Sunday, January 14th the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition will be hosting its annual Ringin’ in the Appalachian New Year. This event will be held at The Sanctuary, 2110 St...
Affrilachian Writer Crystal Wilkinson Visits UACC Salon December 7
by Rosie Carpenter “Imagine a tree, a bird in the tree, the hills, the creek, a possum, the dog chasing the possum. Imagine yourself a woman who gathers stories in her apron.” In this opening sent...
AppalAsian Poet Lisa Kwong visits UACC Literary Salon November 2
THIS ABC (APPALACHIAN-BORN CHINESE) WOMAN She’s a middle child, middle finger to the fortune cookie, born in Radford, heart of the New River Valley. Never fully Chinese, she devoured sausage ...
UACC Literary Salons: Bringing Folks Together Through Words
By Pauletta Hansel. Pauletta is a Core Member of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition and Cincinnati’s Poet Laureate. Her newest collection of poetry, Palindrome, will be launched in a UACC spo...
King Records and the Appalachian Migration
The beginning of King Records in Cincinnati and how the Appalachian Migration had a hand in it by Brian Powers Brian Powers is a librarian at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and i...