Due to popular demand, we are offering a special second live session of this webinar on January 27, 2026! If you are new to this webinar series, learn more below and register now!
If you missed the first event in November 2025, now is your chance to catch up. If you were already able to join us in November, we’ll be including new material this time around and you are welcome to join us again. Look for an email from us in January with more details.
The Art of Inquiry webinar provides tools and strategies to help learners design meaningful driving questions and to structure their research plans as they explore primary and secondary sources with confidence and curiosity.
Event Date: January 27, 2026, 7-9 pm ET / 4–6 pm PT
Location: Online
Cost: Free
Art of Inquiry is the first of three sessions in the Stories That Connect: Using Film and Primary Sources to Build Belonging professional development webinar series. View all sessions.
If you have any questions or would like assistance with registration, please email Hershawna Frison: he*******@************lm.org.
The original November 2025 session included a live Q&A with Colin Gray, director of Unzipped: An Autopsy of American Inequality. We will be sharing the recording of this webinar as soon as it is available. To be notified when the recording is live, sign up for our newsletter.
Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program. Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program does not indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress.
This segment includes instruction on sourcing and analyzing assets from the Library of Congress (LOC) digital archives, equipping educators with concrete ways to bring authentic, historical voices into the classroom.
Participants will co-create a Project-Based Learning Toolkit in the course of the three-part webinar series. Dedicated interactive activities at the end of each session will guide the toolkit development. Informed by the strategies and themes explored in each webinar, the toolkit will include practical insights, customizable templates, sample student project ideas, curated Library of Congress (LOC) resources, and ready-to-use classroom strategies. It will be designed to strengthen learners’ research skills, particularly their ability to navigate archival collections, critically evaluate primary sources, and engage thoughtfully with multimedia cultural products.
To take full advantage of this learning and tool-building opportunity, we recommend participating in all three webinar sessions.
Colin Gray is an award-winning writer, director, and executive producer. He has filmed around the globe – from the Gaza Strip, the slums of Mumbai India, and the jungles of Panama, to Olympic stadiums, family homes and Fortune 500 boardrooms. Uniting every project he tackles is a fierce commitment to crafting powerful stories, often featuring over-looked communities, that challenge the status quo.
An accomplished doc filmmaker, Colin just wrote and directed his seventh feature documentary Unzipped: An Autopsy of American Inequality, about the growing affordable housing crisis in America. His past credits include Being Canadian, Atari: Game Over and Freedom’s Fury. He has created, directed and executive produced countless award-winning TV programming, digital & branded content, and social impact/advocacy campaigns. He is also an in-demand scripted writer. Colin recently finished the screenplay adaptation of the historical fiction novel The Road Dance; he co-wrote the new psychological thriller Cages with his sister Megan and Izabel Acevedo; and he’s attaching talent to his revisionist historical epic Savage Lands about the Lewis & Clark expedition. He is currently a staff writer on the new Netflix kids series Phantom Pups.
Unzipped: An Autopsy of Inequality in America focuses on one of the country’s most iconic and increasingly income divided zip codes: Venice CA 90291. Once a mecca for artists, outsiders and a thriving Black community, Venice is now the frontline for America’s heated battles over gentrification, lack of affordable housing, and homelessness. Unzipped shines a light on the housing crisis in the U.S. and the complex realities of living unhoused.
Learn more about Unzipped and get the Unzipped Learning Guide.
The Glossary of Film Terms may be useful for the discussions around film and filmmaking in this webinar.
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