Mapping place through image, words, and music.
Originally created as a community engagement project for the Big Ears Festival, City Songs is an exercise in creative cartography. We work with local writers and music makers to document, score, and map place-based memories and sense impressions. We surface how a city can be a container for the many stories of its citizens. Tethered to the sites that inspired them, these stories become a new way to navigate the terrain we move through.
City Songs is produced by a small collaborative of community artists, musicians, and filmmakers who believe in the power of place.
The Knoxville City Songs was made possible with financial support from the Hobson Wood Foundation , the Aslan Foundation , the City of Knoxville , and the Tennessee Arts Commission . It received in kind support from Knoxville Community Media.
