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Perkins Center for the Arts Presents a Folk Arts & Civic Engagement Residency at the National Storytelling Conference Today is Independence Day. Throughout the country the national holiday is celebrated with family gatherings infused with food, games and stories just as varied as the richness of cultures that color the United States. One way to collect such national treasures is to engage students and community members in documenting and taking oral histories through an Artist-in-Residency Program. In the week prior to the 4th of July, Perkins Center for the Arts Folklife Center Director, Karen “Queen Nur” Abdul-Malik presented Everybody Comes from Somewhere: Designing a Storytelling & Civic Engagement  Artist–in-Residency Program Master Class at the National Storytelling Conference in Kansas City, MO.  The convention was held  June 29 through July 2.  The 2017 theme, All Our Voices: Stories of Immigration & Migration provided fertile ground to seed Perkins Center for the Arts Storytelling and