Joanna Hay Productions

04/15/2024

Thanks Sabriel Metcalf! With Katima McMillan. The voices of the Women Behind the March — the day Dr. King and Jackie Robinson came to town!

Artist Joanna Hay and others are behind the installation

02/15/2024

Announcing a new sound piece in Frankfort, at the foot of the steps to the Capitol with artist-activist-historians Dr. Le Datta Grimes and Katima Smith-Willis. Kentucky Foundation for Women Kentucky Historical SocietyLouie B. Nunn Center for Oral History Capital City Museum & Historic Sites Downtown Frankfort Inc Frankfort Area Chamber of Commerce

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release February 15, 2024 Contact:  Joanna Hay 502 229 2110 [email protected] We Are The Women Behind The March A Sound Installation on the Steps of the Capitol in Frankfort KY In anticipation of Women’s History Month and the 60t

02/10/2024

Follow Stories from the Balcony is this story unfolds! Thanks FRANK. Magazine For more, read the article here: https://frankthemagazine.com/through-the-lens-of-the-grand-theatre-a-snapshot-of-frankforts-history/
with Katima McMillan
Thanks for the support from the Kentucky Historical Society Kentucky Foundation for Women Kentucky Arts Council Grand Theatre Frankfort, KY

02/10/2024

“Life can only be understood backwards: but it must be lived forwards.” — Soren Kierkegaard We learn history via a wide variety of sources — by reading books, viewing photographs, through dedicated and fact-centered research and reporting, and through newspaper clippings and newsreels, to na...

02/05/2024

02/05/2024

Follow Stories From The Balcony as this project unfolds.

01/15/2024

In honor of MLK Day. Enjoy the short film and educational materials we created for PBS Learning Media. With co-producers and co-writers Dr. Le Datta Denise Grimes and Judy Sizemore. Le Datta Grimes

Martin Luther King Jr. was the featured speaker at a March on Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1964, where an estimated 10,000 people gathered in a peaceful protest for civil rights. In 2022, researchers Joanna Hay and Le Datta Grimes, Ph.D., recorded interviews with 10 people who participated in that march....

11/27/2023

06/12/2023

Coming Soon

02/22/2023

The Lexington History Museum’s LexTalks series offers our first program of the year on Sunday, March 19 at 2:00 pm at the Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan House in Downtown Lexington.

"Central KY Women & the 1964 March on Frankfort" will be presented by African American history scholar Dr. Le Datta Grimes and documentary producer Joanna Hay. The 1964 March on Frankfort was organized by Kentuckians with guest speakers Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson. Music was provided by folk artists Peter, Paul and Mary and the Kentucky State College choir, led by Dr. Carl H. Smith. Ten thousand people marched on Frankfort that day, and it led to the passage of the Kentucky Civil Rights Act of 1966.

This event is FREE. Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lextalks-central-ky-women-the-1964-march-on-frankfort-registration-553960218927

02/13/2023

On March 5, 1964, a crowd of more than 10,000 marched on the Kentucky Capitol.

03/12/2022

A taste of our March on Frankfort Oral History Project with the National Park Service, City of Frankfort, Le Datta Grimes, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. PBS Learning Media films coming soon! This Saving Stories episode with Doug Boyd, features Sylvia Harris, Sharyn Mitchell, and Barbara Hudson as they reminisce about that day.

In this Women’s History Month edition of WUKY’s award winning series Saving Stories, Nunn Center Director Dr. Doug Boyd shares audio from three recent interviews with local women who participated in the 1964 March for Civil Rights in Frankfort.

11/05/2021

These interviews, about the day Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr came to March on Frankfort in 1964, are made possible by Frankfort, Kentucky - City Hall, Capital City Museum & Historic Sites, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, and the National Park Service Preserving African American Civil Rights History Grant Program. Interviewer Le Datta Grimes. Fascinating stories about the role of YOUTH in protest and demonstration as part of the democratic process! Joanna Hay Fascinating stories about the role of YOUTH in protest and demonstration as part of the democratic process! Coming in 2022 to KET - Kentucky Educational Television and PBS Learning Media.

08/19/2021

Today the pilot episode of the new NCTV original program “Nantucket Life” premieres on YouTube and Channel 18 at noon and 7. The show will continue to stream on You Tube. So proud to have been executive producer on this. So proud of the whole team at NCTV!

Nantucket Community Television is excited to present its newest original program Nantucket Life. The half-hour, magazine-style series celebrates the uniquene...

08/01/2021

Coming in August, “Nantucket Life” Original Programming by NCTV. An exciting magazine show produced with rockstar director Dan Driscoll and the stellar team at NCTV. Joanna Hay, executive producer.

This is "Nantucket Life" by Nantucket Community Television on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

06/19/2021

A wonderful evening celebrating the creative and technical team for the Crafting & Casting exhibit! Details coming soon!

03/14/2021

03/14/2021

03/14/2021

After over a year of planning, and a lifetime of collecting, the Crafting & Casting exhibit is being installed!