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Initial collaboration with the Lenape Center

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Joel Whitney describes the beginning of Brooklyn Public Library's collaboration with the Lenape Center, emphasizing the importance of the Lenape as the original inhabitants of New York City.

  • BPL staff met with Joe Baker, Adrian Kumans, Brent Michael Davis, and Curtis Zuniga of the Lenape Center
  • The collaboration began with a simple question: 'What do you need?'
  • This initial conversation led to a multiyear and multidisciplinary partnership affecting many facets of BPL
Joel Whitney
0:38:06
The Lenape are, of course, the original inhabitants of the land we are meeting on today.
0:38:11
4 years ago, my colleagues and I met with Joe Baker, Adrian Kumans, Brent Michael Davis, and Curtis Zuniga of the Lenape Center and asked a simple question.
0:38:21
What do you need?
0:38:23
Their answer launched an ongoing multiyear and multidisciplinary collaboration that has touched on so many facets of BPL.
0:38:31
Within 2 years of that conversation, we opened Lenape Hocking, the first Lenape curated exhibition of Lenape cultural arts in the city of New York.
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