by kitchensisters | Jan 25, 2019 | The Keepers
DJ Spooky aka Paul D. Miller aka That Subliminal Kid is a composer, a multimedia artist, a writer, a keeper, an “exchanger” who takes on big environmental and social issues in his work. We are huge fans of his music and his way of thinking. He came by our...
by kitchensisters | Jan 24, 2019 | The Keepers
We recently sat down with Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus about the group’s upcoming performance of DJ Spooky’s Quantopia: The Evolution of the Internet, a multimedia hip hop concert experience about the history and...
by kitchensisters | Jan 23, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
Our latest podcast episode, The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System, is a collaboration with another podcast, Library Bytegeist, “a collection of stories from the front lines and fringes of libraries,” hosted by Molly Schwartz and brought to you by the...
by kitchensisters | Jan 22, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
This week on The Kitchen Sisters Present… podcast, we take a look at the Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System… Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popular library classification system in the world, was a known racist...
by kitchensisters | Jan 21, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay for #MLKDay – The King Center The King Library and Archives in Atlanta is “the largest repository of primary source materials on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement in the world.”
by kitchensisters | Jan 17, 2019 | The Keepers
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” -Jorge Luis Borges
by kitchensisters | Jan 16, 2019 | Hidden Kitchens, The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – The Center for Discovery On the Splendid Table, Ruth Reichl talks about how an article she was writing about prosciutto led her to The Center for Discovery, “a facility where people suffering from severe disabilities find not only...
by kitchensisters | Jan 15, 2019 | Hidden Kitchens, Podcast, The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Georgia Gilmore & the Club from Nowhere In honor of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, we reprise the story of Georgia Gilmore and her secret civil rights kitchen. In the 1950s, a group of Montgomery, Alabama women baked goods to help fund the...
by kitchensisters | Jan 14, 2019 | The Keepers
We interviewed writer Eliza McGraw for The Keepers podcast episode, The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky. She told us about other keepers in her life, including her Uncle Bill who “compulsively does dairy histories.” He and Eliza’s mother-in-law opened...
by kitchensisters | Jan 11, 2019 | The Keepers
“In the ten days since he was sworn into office, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has already enacted a rash of measures that have sparked concerns across the globe. “Among his first orders of business, reports Gabriella Angeleti of the Art Newspaper, was...
