Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Living Diversity on the radio / WVTF

There is an interesting interview and slideshow of the work of the Columbia Pike Documentary Project on WVTF radio, an NPR affiliated station in Charlottesville, Virginia. You can see the pictures and hear the interview with CPDP chief photographer Lloyd Wolf here:

Thanks to Sandy Hausman of WVTF for her interest in our work, and for her thoughtful interview.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Virginia Festival of the Book

If anyone is in Charlottesville, Virginia next week, CPDP chief photographer Lloyd Wolf will be speaking about the Columbia Pike Documentary Project's book "Living Diversity" as part of a panel for the Virginia Festival for the Book.

The program is entitled: "A State of Many Nations: Immigration and the Changing Face of Virginia"

Thursday, March 17, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
UVa Culbreth Theatre
109 Culbreth Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903

Tickets are free, but you will need to register online (easy to do-  here)

We hope to see some of y'all there! 

    Some photos from the panel that evening, by VFH staff photographer Pat Jarrett. 

Photo captions: Author Tom Gjelten (A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story), Cuban-American author Gustavo PĂ©rez Firmat (A Cuban in Mayberry), and photographer Lloyd Wolf (Living Diversity: The Columbia Pike Documentary Project) discussed immigration in Virginia at Culbreth Auditorium on UVa grounds at the Virginia Festival of the Book on Thursday, March 17, 2016. Festival organizer Jane Kudlow (in white) was with us in the green room while we got miked up).

Thanks to everyone at the festival and the VFH for this opportunity.