MDOCS Featured Event: The Multimedia Archive

The Multimedia Archive Workshops with Jocelyn Arem

The John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative and Office of Special Programs welcome Jocelyn Arem '04  for a series of spring workshops on the Multimedia Community Archive, helping students, faculty and community partners develop and manage documentary projects with archival sources from conception through development of archival evidence, to documentary production planning. 

Workshops: 

• January 30: Preparation: Getting Started

• February 27: Production: Working with Sources

• March 27: Presentation: Storytelling

Fridays, 2–4 p.m., Tisch 302

Workshops are open to Skidmore College faculty, staff and students and community partners. 
RSVP to mdocs @ skidmore.edu appreciated but not required. Those who have RSVP'd will receive some questions/ideas before each meeting to help get the creative juices flowing.

Performance 
Thursday, March 26 at 8 p.m., Filene Recital Hall

• Reviving, Restoring and Reimagining the Music Archive
  
  Free and open to the public

Multimedia Archivist/Producer Jocelyn Arem '04 and her Grammy Award–winning Magic Shop Studio colleagues will showcase the process of reviving, restoring and reimagining the music in an artist's archive. This presentation will share the archive and listening experience in stages: from the original audiotapes, to remastered recordings, culminating in a live performance with musical guests.

About Jocelyn Arem

Jocelyn Arem is a Skidmore alumna (self-determined major in ethnomusicology, 2004) and award-winning documentarian whose projects explore the connection between music past and future. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, NPR, People Magazine, and at Grammy week in Los Angeles. She holds an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in folklore and cultural studies. Over the past decade, Arem created a living archive for Caffè Lena, a pioneering folk music venue in Saratoga Springs. She worked with community partners to research the Caffè's past, organized a multimedia archive (text, sound, image), recorded oral history interviews with more than 150 musicians around the country and filmed live performances. Arem then produced a book, a CD box set, a website and a searchable digital database. As a result of her work, the complete documentary archive found a home at the Library of Congress, and in 2014 ASCAP awarded her the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Multimedia for this exemplary multimedia documentary work. She is currently working in New York City with a jazz music collection to build another multimedia archive and produce a website, digital database and CD project. Her work exemplifies the mission of MDOCS—to create evidence-based documentary stories told creatively, compellingly and critically.