The adirondack experience (adkx) in new york will partner with the adirondack diversity initiative, akwesasne cultural center, mountain lake PBS, the nature conservancy's adirondack chapter, and the…

This Project Grant award of $185,586 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support a collaborative effort by The Adirondack Experience and multiple partners to facilitate a virtual public programming series examining the history of Adirondack Park through an environmental justice lens. The Adirondack Diversity Initiative, Akwesasne Cultural Center, Mountain Lake PBS, The Nature Conservancy's Adirondack Chapter, and The Wild Center will partner with The Adirondack Experience to host a series of livestreamed discussions and a symposium convening historians, educators, storytellers, and social scientists. The programming aims to address the combined impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and social injustice protests through reexamining regional inequities in land and water access policies and conservation principles affecting the Adirondack region. Funded under the National Leadership Grants program of IMLS, the award period is November 1, 2021 through October 31, 2022.

The adirondack experience (adkx) in new york will partner with the adirondack diversity initiative, akwesasne cultural center, mountain lake PBS, the nature conservancy's adirondack chapter, and the wild center to facilitate a series of free virtual public programs throughout 2022 that reexamine the history of adirondack park through the lens of environmental justice, especially regional inequities established by policies to manage land and water access, as well as conservation principles. The collaborative will facilitate a series of livestreamed discussions as a launching point for public engagement and host a symposium to convene indigenous and non-indigenous historians, educators, storytellers, and social scientists to discuss these issues. Adkx seeks to address the combined impact of the covid-19 pandemic and social injustice protests on the region through these virtual programs.