 Projects and programs Urban folklore  The City Lore office on First Avenue   [   on the Lower East Side houses archives containing over 100,000 images , hundreds of oral histories, and traditional music and poetry performance tapes.
<meaning-changed>  Projects and programs Urban folklore  The City Lore office on First Avenue   [   on the Lower East Side houses archives containing over 100,000 images , hundreds of oral histories, and traditional music and poetry performance tapes.
 Projects and programs Urban folklore The City Lore office on First Avenue It’s hard to understand what City Lore does in terms of art-making without first understanding how folklorists think of the concept of art. It is as if in Western society what is seen as the arts is equivalent to the visible light in the spectrum, whereas folklorists see the art across the whole spectrum, from ultraviolet to infrared. That full range of creative expression is what concerns the mission of City Lore, and it includes history and memory, language and religion, food and gardens, lace and place. [ on the Lower East Side houses archives containing over 100,000 images , hundreds of oral histories, and traditional music and poetry performance tapes.