Coal Cracker’s First Year in Print

By on November 23, 2014   /   The Beak  
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Coal Cracker’s First Year in Print

Since its launch in December 2013, Coal Cracker—a youth-led engagement journalism project spearheaded by Heron’s Eye Communications co-founder Krista Gromalski—has published five issues covering hard-hitting topics like blight, bullying, beauty standards, and marriage equality. Our reporters have interviewed author Trebbe Johnson about the coal region’s wounded landscape, chatted with founder of the legendary Woodstock concert Michael Lang, and gone behind the scenes at the Little League Baseball World Series. We’ve paid our young journalists about $500 (and lots of pizza)

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Shenandoah Artist in Residence

By on September 12, 2014   /   The Beak  
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Shenandoah Artist in Residence

Our Co-Founder Sandy Long has been selected as the first ever Artist-in-Residence at Shenandoah National Park. Her residency will occur, September 22 through October 3, 2014. Shenandoah and Sandy As most of you know, Sandy is a writer and photographer who focuses pen and lens on environmental, cultural and community issues of the Upper Delaware River region. Her love of this place, and dedication to capturing its wild wonders, have informed the possibilities for her residency, where she proposes a

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Watch Talk Tails

By on September 8, 2014   /   The Beak  
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Watch Talk Tails

Heron’s Eye Communications participated in the expo preceding NACL Theatre’s THE WEATHER PROJECT Community Play on Saturday, August 9, in Yulan, NY. We set up our “rookery” and invited people to co-compose poetry with us as part of our Talk Tails experiment, encouraging intoxicating conversation about the weather and where it’s all headed. We engaged in creative word play, stream-of-consciousness craziness, co-composed poetry and more. The results are presented in this short film for all to sip upon as we navigate

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