- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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6 people are interested
Transcribathon
ORGANIZATION: New Orleans Jazz Museum
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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6 people are interested
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR TRANSCRIBATHON (no experience necessary)
A TRANSCRIBATHON IS A COLLABORATIVE EVENT where lovers of language and history come together to transcribe and encode hand-written manuscripts. Transcribers will learn to use cutting-edge technology to transcribe documents from the museum’s collection of eighteenth-century
French and Spanish colonial records. Our transcriptions will help people around the world learn about the colonial history of New Orleans and its environs. The NOLA Jazz Museum Transcribathon will also feature live music, a bar, tours of the collections, a raffle with prizes, and invited speakers.
THE JAZZ MUSEUM’S COLLECTION OF FRENCH AND SPANISH COLONIAL JUDICIAL RECORDS is an extraordinary source of information about the people who lived in eighteenth-century New Orleans and the lower Mississippi Valley and about the institutions that shaped their lives.
The records were created by French and Spanish notaries, who recorded any and all issues related to property and to enslaved people. The notaries’ records give us details about freedom struggles, pirate raids, colonial medicine, gambling parties, disputed
inheritances, marital strife, and much more. Digital transcriptions of these documents will make them more searchable, readable, and translatable for a global audience.
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About New Orleans Jazz Museum
Location:
400 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70116, US
Mission Statement
The mission of The New Orleans Jazz Museum is to celebrate the history of jazz, in all its forms, through dynamic interactive exhibits, multigenerational educational programming, research facilities and engaging musical performances. The New Orleans Jazz Museum enhances New Orleans’ ongoing cultural renaissance by providing diverse resources for musicians and music lovers of all languages and nationalities. The museum seeks to explore America’s quintessential musical art form, in the city where jazz was born.
Description
The New Orleans Jazz Museum celebrates jazz in the city where it was born.
Through dynamic interactive exhibits, multigenerational educational programming, research facilities and engaging musical performances, the music New Orleans made famous is explored in all its forms.
Housed in the historic Old U.S. Mint, strategically located at the intersection of the French Quarter and the Frenchmen Street live music corridor, the New Orleans Jazz Museum is in the heart of the city’s vibrant music scene.
Through partnerships with local, national and international educational institutions, the New Orleans Jazz Museum promotes the global understanding of jazz as one of the most innovative, historically pivotal musical art forms in world history.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
400 Esplanade AvenueNew Orleans, LA 70116
DATE POSTED
September 3, 2019
SKILLS
- General Education
- Curating
- History
- Bilingual
- French
- Translation
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- 12:15pm-4:30pm