I cannot believe how quickly the end of this semester is approaching. Over spring break I finished my half of the transcription of Nadia Tarnawsky’s interview and launched our social media sites (now linked in the class notes doc). It was fun to revisit the interview with Nadia even if the manual transcription was a little tedious. We couldn’t decide how to handle the use of AI and transcription and for this interview decided we didn’t want to run the interview through AI. We are trying to schedule one more interview with either Irene (WBENA President) or Teryn (our WBENA liaison and the Concert Mistress of the ensemble) in order to round out our history portion of the website and I am not sure what we will decide to do, but time constraints may push us towards accepting AI assistance.

While I am now posting on our social media sites I am still figuring out who to connect with and how to get the word out about our project. I have had more luck with Bluesky and getting some interaction with out content through the CUNY community, mostly because I shared the project intro post on my personal page. My personal Facebook is kind of a hotbed of political discourse, so I don’t necessarily want that mixing with this project in a way that could negatively impact WBENA. For that reason I haven’t and probably won’t share the project via Facebook on my personal page, but will try to lean into WBENAs network and connections.