DC Public Library Podcast

By Labs at DC Public Library

Hear book talks, conversations, special presentations, stories about the happenings in the library, the Labs, and Washington, DC, and much more! This show is recorded from the Labs Recording Studio at... more

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The podcast currently has 104 episodes available.

DC Public Library Podcast episodes:

January 17, 2022 DC Public Library Presents: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Music in this episode is adapted from DCPL's American Song database. A complete list of the library's music streaming databases can be found here.
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51min
January 13, 2022 All Things Local: Lamont Carey: From Prison to Poetry
On this month's episode of All Things Local, guest Lamont Carey discusses his life growing up in Washington, being incarcerated as a juvenile and re-entering society as an adult. We also discuss his life's work.
NOTE: This episode originally aired on February 20, 2018 on DCPL Radio in partnership with Full Service Radio.
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48min
December 21, 2021 Secret Passage: STEM in Storytelling
Tora and Tara will focus on STEM in storytelling, including its seeming absence in pourquoi tales and STEM teachings in Native American stories.
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50min
November 30, 2021 All Things Creative: Reimagining Civic Engagement and Participatory Planning
Part 2 in a series of conversations on a just D.C., featuring fellows from the Public Interest Design Lab, a partnership between the Goethe-Institut and the DC Public Library. This episode pairs two DC based fellows—Jenn Low, an integrative designer, educator and landscape architect, and Anna McCorvey, an architect and city planner, with guest expert Rosten Woo, a designer, writer and educator living in Los Angeles.
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47min
November 30, 2021 The People's Podchive: Up From the People
Check out a copy of The Washington Century
Check out a copy of Chocolate City
Washington Community Video Center Collection in Dig DC
Seng Luangrath’s oral history in Dig DC
Transgender Histories of D.C. in Dig DC.
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21min
November 23, 2021 Memories on Tap: A Habit of Documentation
Robert LaRose speaks with Emily Wagner about her extensive collection of written family history and photographs dating back to the mid-19th century, as well as how to preserve important family memories.
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45min
November 16, 2021 Access This: Allie Genia
Jenny chats with The Labs' own Allie Genia about how they make library programs more accessible, navigating an invisible disability, and dream projects they'd love to do with The Labs.
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23min
November 09, 2021 All Things Creative: The Past, Present, and Future of Black Lives Matter Plaza
Part 1 in a series of conversations on a just D.C., featuring fellows from the Public Interest Design Lab, a partnership between the Goethe-Institut and the DC Public Library. This episode pairs fellow Josef Palermo, an artist, producer, and arts organizer, with guest experts Bryan C. Lee, Architect and Design Justice Advocate, and the Founder/Director of Colloqate Design in New Orleans, and Dr. Roneva Keel, a historian and fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies partnered with the National Parks Service National Capital Region.
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48min
November 02, 2021 All Things Local: Roye Okupe and the Rise of African Superheroes
Author and founder of YouNeek Studios discusses his comic book series, Afrofuturism and the blockbuster hit Black Panther. This episode originally aired in March 2018.
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48min
October 26, 2021 Secret Passage: Spooky Stories
In this episode of Secret Passage, we celebrate the mystery, horror, and suspense of spooky stories. Listeners will be on the edge of their seats as theatrical retellings of a monster story, a classic English folktale, and the urban legend the Babysitter come to life.
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57min

FAQs about DC Public Library Podcast:

How many episodes does DC Public Library Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 104 episodes available.