DC Public Library Podcast

DC Public Library Podcast

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DC Public Library Podcast episodes

  • 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. Connect with us!
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    50 min
  • 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. Connect with us!
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    47 min
  • 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.

    Connect with us!

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    21 min
  • 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. Connect with us!
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    45 min
  • 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. Connect with us!
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    23 min
  • 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. Connect with us!
    https://www.dclibrary.org/
    @dcpl on X
    @dcpubliclibrary on Instagram
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    48 min
  • 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. Connect with us!
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    57 min
  • Get Lit: Literary Musings - VillanElle
    Joanna & Amanda discuss the first novel in the VillanElle trilogy by Luke Jennings, touching on the realities of the female assassin and remark on the LGBTQ+ lens that is prominent in the Killing Eve TV series (based on the books) and how that escalates the narrative. Connect with us!
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    54 min
  • The People's Podchive: The Great Migration, Go-Go, and More!

    Introduction to Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project 
    Interview with Edith Crutchfield, Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project 
    Interview with Reverend Irene Pierce, Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project 
    Interview with Deacon Clarence Haywood, Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project 
    Chip Py Go-Go Collection 
    Friday Morning Music Club 
    Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis Posters 
    Check out a copy of The Warm of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson at DCPL

    Connect with us!

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    20 min

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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…