Appalshop.org: All American Philanthropic Travel

Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel has partnered with Appalshop & The Appalachian Media Institute for an All-American Philanthropic Travel Fund Raising Donor Tour experience.

"Appalshop has born witness to the economic, environmental and pressing humanitarian issues of Appalachia since 1969.

Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel is honored to fundraise for Appalshop by introducing Americans to Americans while shining light on a non-profit that has been a beacon of hope for thousands of Appalachia's children to step out of poverty with training in journalism and the arts." -David Chamberlain Founder/CEO Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel

Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel announces Americans helping Americans Philanthropic Travel: Leaving the Mines Behind Empowering Appalachia: May 31 to June 7, 2009



Appalshop is dedicated to the proposition that the world is immeasurably enriched when local cultures garner the resources, including new technologies, to tell their own stories and to listen to the unique stories of others. The creative acts of listening and telling are Appalshop's core competency.

Appalshop began in 1969 as an economic development project of the War on Poverty. The idea was to recruit a group of Appalachian youth and train them in media skills. The expectation was that the young people would use their new skills to find employment outside Appalachia.

Instead, the trainees saw their media knowledge as a way to stay in the region. In looking at Appalachia through the eyes of the existing media, they saw little or nothing that reflected the reality they knew; so they began making films to document their own communities. Over the ensuing thirty-six years Appalshop has grown into a nationally recognized media center working in film, video, recordings, literature, theater, presentation of live performance, and radio.

The subject matter of this work ranges from documenting traditional arts to exploring history to dealing with the social issues that affect the region today. The underlying philosophy has always been that Appalachian people must tell their own stories and solve their own problems.

Appalshop goals are to enlist the power of education, media, theater, music, and other arts:

1. to document, disseminate, and revitalize the lasting traditions and contemporary creativity of Appalachia

2. to tell stories the commercial cultural industries don't tell, challenging stereotypes with Appalachian voices and visions

3. to support communities efforts to achieve justice and equity and solve their own problems in their own ways

4. to celebrate cultural diversity as a positive social value

5. to participate in regional, national, and global dialogue toward these ends

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Randy Wilson plays a banjo made from a fruit cake tin:


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