KPL Videos: culture — Kalamazoo Public Library

Jazz Speaks for Life: Remembering MLK and the Civil Rights Movement

The Jazz and Creative Institute will be performing big band jazz tunes composed by Black musicians during a time of great protest and change to honor the struggles and triumphs of Martin…

Recorded 01/15/2021

Categories: Entertainment; Family; Information; Instructional; Music & Concerts; Timely Topics

Tags: black history; culture; education

OHOW: What Style Is It? (Greek Revival)

OHOW (Old House Owners Workshop) is a program of the City of Kalamazoo’s Historic Preservation Commission. OHOW seeks to create educational programs that help old house owners understand their buildings—how and when…

Recorded 01/15/2021

Categories: Information; Instructional; Kalamazoo History

Tags: architecture; culture; How to

John Davis Presents a Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.

John Davis will recite or read a Martin Luther King, Jr speech. This speech will be more current with today’s social environment. This speech will be for the whole family.…

Recorded 01/14/2021

Categories: Children; Family; Information; Teen; Timely Topics

Tags: black history; culture; education; history

Meet the Author: Dr. Louis Moore - Civil Rights and the Black Athlete.

Grand Valley State University professor, author, and podcaster Dr. Louis Moore discusses the stories and ideas behind his book, WE WILL WIN THE DAY: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, THE BLACK…

Recorded 11/19/2020

Categories: Authors @ KPL; Family; Timely Topics

Tags: author; black history; culture; education; history

John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age

The author of John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age, Brian C. Wilson PhD. presents the remarkable story of lifetime Michigan resident, radio and TV pioneer, and…

Recorded 09/12/2019

Categories: Authors @ KPL; Kalamazoo History; Michigan History

Tags: culture; history; kalamazoo; michigan

The Story of Black Frog Brewery

Meet Christopher Harris, the owner of Black Frog Brewery, the first minority-owned and operated craft brewery in Toledo. Hear Harris describe his experience being a part of a very exclusive…

Recorded 02/16/2019

Categories: Information

Tags: beer; business; culture; history; michigan; overdue brew

Cooking with Beer! w/ Chef Cory Barrett

Chef Cory Barrett, culinary instructor at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, and Brewery Operations Manager/Brewer Jeff Sobolewski, demonstrate cooking with… beer of course. We will prepare and taste different fun and…

Recorded 02/09/2019

Categories: Instructional

Tags: beer; culture; food; kalamazoo; overdue brew

Overdue Brew 2018

Highlights of Overdue Brew 2018. Overdue Brew is a fun and fascinating series of programs presented each year by Kalamazoo Public Library to highlight Kalamazoo’s vibrant brewing culture.

Recorded 11/16/2018

Categories: Entertainment

Tags: beer; business; culture; food; history; kalamazoo; overdue brew

Author Drew Philp: A $500 House in Detroit

In 2009, journalist and screenwriter Drew Philp bought a ruined house in Detroit for $500. In the years that followed, as he gutted the interior and removed the heaps of…

Recorded 11/13/2018

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: architecture; author; culture; michigan; urban renewal

Japan Twang

An entertaining and educational concert with shamisen virtuoso Sato Michiyoshi. Sato is an award-winning performer of Tsugaru-jamisen, a dynamic style of music played on a three-stringed Japanese instrument called a…

Recorded 03/10/2018

Categories: Music & Concerts

Tags: culture; music

Ordinary Men: Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Victims in the Holocaust

Our stereotypical image of the Holocaust is of villainous Nazi soldiers killing Jewish victims in gas chambers. However, historical research has shown that much of the killing was perpetrated by…

Recorded 01/29/2018

Categories: Timely Topics

Tags: culture; history

Welcome to Kalamazoo, 1917

What was Kalamazoo like 100 years ago, and what was going on around town? With the Kalamazoo Gazette for our time machine, Kalamazoo librarian Ruth Wilson leads the audience through…

Recorded 12/12/2017

Categories: Kalamazoo History

Tags: culture; history

I Remember Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo’s Historic Preservation Coordinator, Sharon Ferraro, working with her 95-year-old dad, retired professional photographer, Lance Ferraro, walk us inside Kalamazoo’s historic facades and sites, with remembrances from the 1920s to…

Recorded 02/23/2017

Categories: Kalamazoo History

Tags: culture; history; kalamazoo

Embracing Forgiveness

Andrew Collins, a former Benton Harbor cop, falsified evidence in a case that sent Jameel McGee to prison for four years for a crime he didn’t commit. Collins’ misconduct later…

Recorded 10/25/2016

Categories: Information; Timely Topics

Tags: culture; forgiveness; michigan

History of the House of David

Archivist and historian David Kohrman traces the development, faith, and business pursuits of the Israelite House of David from their arrival in Benton Harbor (MI) in 1903 to the present…

Recorded 09/29/2016

Categories: Authors @ KPL; Michigan History

Tags: culture; history; michigan; religion

The Library Ladies of Kalamazoo

Authors of the new book “The Library Ladies of Kalamazoo: Their Home and History” tell how they collaborated to create a beautifully designed 220-page pictorial guide of the oldest women’s…

Recorded 09/22/2016

Categories: Kalamazoo History

Tags: architecture; culture; history; kalamazoo; women

The Library Ladies of Kalamazoo

Authors of the new book The Library Ladies of Kalamazoo: Their Home and History tell how they collaborated to create a beautifully designed 220-page pictorial guide of the oldest women’s…

Recorded 09/22/2016

Categories: Kalamazoo History

Tags: culture; education; history; kalamazoo

Mas Que Nada: Latin Jazz @ KPL

Mas Que Nada, Western Michigan University’s award winning Latin Jazz ensemble, represents a decade-long project created by its director, Tom Knific, to celebrate and perform the music of Brazil and…

Recorded 04/20/2016

Categories: Music & Concerts

Tags: culture; kalamazoo; music

Found Family: A Defining Documentary

A film by Laura Barrett, produced by Karen Trout, Farrell Howe, and Kalamazoo Public Library for Reading Together 2016. Inspired by the 2016 Reading Together selection, Orphan Train by Christina Baker…

Recorded 03/21/2016

Categories: Information; Timely Topics

Tags: culture; education; film; kalamazoo; reading together

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of the Orphan Trains

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of the Orphan Trains & the Making of the Novel. Reading Together 2016 author Christina Baker Kline is the author of the #1 New…

Recorded 03/07/2016

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; culture; history; reading together; writing

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Jazz Speaks for Life: Remembering MLK and the Civil Rights Movement

OHOW: What Style Is It? (Greek Revival)

John Davis Presents a Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Meet the Author: Dr. Louis Moore - Civil Rights and the Black Athlete.

John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age

The Story of Black Frog Brewery

Cooking with Beer! w/ Chef Cory Barrett

Overdue Brew 2018

Author Drew Philp: A $500 House in Detroit

Japan Twang

Ordinary Men: Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Victims in the Holocaust

Welcome to Kalamazoo, 1917

I Remember Kalamazoo

Embracing Forgiveness

History of the House of David

The Library Ladies of Kalamazoo

The Library Ladies of Kalamazoo

Mas Que Nada: Latin Jazz @ KPL

Found Family: A Defining Documentary

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of the Orphan Trains