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BRC Launches Old Ties Podcast

Exciting news from Blue Ridge Collaborative: the new Old Ties podcast is coming soon! This series will be hosted by BRC Executive Director Annie Newton and Vice Chair Amanda Boyd, a duo whose wit, curiosity, and shared love of history makes for a show as entertaining as it is enlightening.

BRC Launches Blue Ridge Conversations Web Series

We are proud to announce the launch of Blue Ridge Conversations, a new web series designed to encourage deeper dialogue around the histories, cultures, and narratives that shape our shared world. Hosted by BRC Founder and Executive Director Annie Newton, the series will invite viewers into thoughtful, accessible conversations that illuminate the complexities (and possibilities) of American history.

BRC Elects Inaugural Board Officers Sharp, Boyd, Bourdeau, and Wilson Take Executive Committee Positions

Blue Ridge Collaborative (BRC) is proud to announce the election of its first board officers following our inaugural board meeting on November 5, 2025. This marks a major milestone in shaping the future of our growing organization.

How Storytelling Can Rebuild Empathy in a Divided World

Information has never been more abundant, or more fleeting. Data, headlines, and quick takes dominate our feeds, yet what actually moves us and brings us closer together is rarely a statistic. It’s a well-told story.

Beyond Marketing: How One Client Inspired the Launch of Blue Ridge Collaborative

Stories hold the power to preserve what time might otherwise erase, keeping alive the threads of memory that connect us to the land, to each other, and to those who came before.

Announcing the Launch of Blue Ridge Collaborative

October 6, 2025 – (Charlotte, North Carolina and Chapel Hill, North Carolina) – Parklife founder & CEO Brian Castle and longtime collaborator and historian Annie Newton have announced the launch of Blue Ridge Collaborative (BRC), a nonprofit organization funding and producing creative projects that promote arts, culture, and education.

The Blue Ridge Collaborative: This is Us

Storytelling is a superpower. It has the ability to shape culture, amplify unheard voices, and spark meaningful change. At its core, storytelling helps us all understand each other better, as we form closer ties that enable stronger communities. We’ve had the honor of collaborating on some amazing storytelling, centered on our home geography of the Carolina Piedmont. It all started with capturing buried and little told stories of the Black and Indigenous people of Hillsborough, North Carolina, a town where we’ve both lived and worked for over a decade.

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