Interactive Guide
BLUE COLLAR RHODY is an *interactive conversation between the Gallery of Memory
documentary portraits and the Working the Boats: Masters of the Craft documentary
webisodes about the history and legacy of Local 1329 of the I.L.A. (International
Longshoremen’s Association). The interactive experience creates an intimate, multigenerational call-and-response between the Tockwotton Cape Verdean ancestral presence and the lively voices of these same griots and stewards of the lived history of Local 1329 in the documentary webisodes. The beautiful framing and lighting in the documentary portraits and webisodes intentionally and exquisitely foreground and center the focus on the authors and architects of the collective memories, creating a warm feeling of a family conversation around the kitchen table, ‘Down the Point.’
Working the Boats: Masters of the Craft (2016) is the second of a documentary trilogy about the Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean community. A link is also provided to the first documentary, Some Funny Porto Rican?: A Cape Verdean American Story (2006), which provides the historical context for the webisodes about the community displaced by
urbanization, historic preservation, gentrification, and the construction of I-195.
- Honoring a Legacy: “Chief” Manuel Q. Ledo
- WORKING THE BOATS: MASTERS OF THE CRAFT
- INTRODUCTION
- EPISODE 1: FOX POINT COMMUNITY
- EPISODE 2: THE CRAFT
- EPISODE 3: THE DANGERS
- EPISODE 4: THE UNION
- EPISODE 5: THE GENERATIONS
- EPISODE 6: THE WOMEN
SUGGESTED VIEWING BEFORE WATCHING THE WEBISODES
- Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?: A Cape Verdean American Story ( 82 min, 2006)
- ‘Masters of the Craft, Gallery of Memory’ Exhibition, Providence City Hall, 80th anniversary of Local 1329, 2013
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