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Connected with a local historic, cultural or educational organization? Community researcher? Scholar looking to animate your work for the public? Interested being a performer, musician, director, theater crafter? Join the HistoryShares partnership for Public History in performance!

Programs funded in part by HistoryShares are free to the public, adaptable in scale and content, and supported by donations, volunteers, and an option for a donation subscription series similar to CSA farm shares.

HistoryShares affiiated programs are produced based on the Red Skies Music Ensemble's performance model for Public History: a lively research-based narration is illustrated by music performance, theatrical cameos and archival images to connect the dots between fascinating facts and interpretations drawn from archives, collections, and exhibits of local historical organizations, libraries, and other sources.

HistoryShares aims to animate Public History thrugh a perfromance model that offers entertaining engagement with historical facts and interpretations drawn from archives and special collections local museums, historical societies and libraries. The goal: finding things out, comradery, and fun, as a partipant on stage, back stage or in the audience.

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About...

Trudy Williams is also Artistic Director of The Red Skies Music Ensemble (co-founded with George Boziwick), and is the author/co-author of Red Skies programs performed at the Hadley Public Library sponsored by the Hadley Historical Society and Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum; Library of Congress; the American Repertory Theater at Oberon in partnership with Harvard University/Houghton Library; Emily Dickinson Museum/Amherst College/Jones Library; New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; Yale University Institute of Sacred Music; Long Island Museum of American Art and History; and others. Trudy lives in Leeds, Massachusetts, plays acoustic-electric bass guitar, and is a member of the Fiddle Orchestra of Western Massachusetts.

Using the music of various times as the portal, programs illuminate aspects of America's fuller historical, multi-cultural and multi-racial narrative often over-looked, under-told, or hidden in plain sight.