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Stories In Service: Day of Neighborhood Storytelling - Series

A service project and series featuring storytellers as they tell stories in 5 neighborhoods sharing culture, hope and inspiration.

Community – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

The Project

Stories In Service: Day of Neighborhood Storytelling 

September 22, 2012
 
Stories In Service: Day of Neighborhood Storytelling is a city-wide service project that sends teams of storytellers into several communities on the same day at the same time to share cultural, positive and progressive stories in urban neighborhoods where negative imaging and violence have been sensationalized in mainstream media. The programs will take place on Saturday, September 22nd from 12-2pm in 5 Philadelphia neighborhoods. 

 Each gathering represents a neighborhood village where intergenerational audiences are empowered with tales that help to shape and restore cultural identities. The day will be documented and broadcasts on PhillyCAM's stations (Comcast 66 and Verizon 29), generating positive and progressive media 'stories' in each neighborhood. 
 
We are excited to be partnering with Art Sanctuary, Philly CAM, Community Education Center and 5 local neighborhood organizations and locations in Philadelphia.
 
  • Lonnie Young Recreation Center (GERMANTOWN)
  • Hawthorne Cultural Center (SOUTH PHILLY)
  • Community Education Center (UNIVERSITY CITY)
  • Malcolm X Park (WEST PHILLY)
  • Village of the Arts and Humanities (NORTH PHILLY)

What We Need & What You Get

We Need:
  • Transportation and Travel
  • Production and Post Production Costs (Sound, Memory Cards, Hard Drives, Editing)

You Get:

Lots of stuff to thank you for your support! Posters, Pictures, DVD's, Post Cards, Personalized songs, Producer's Notes, Planning Assistance to hold Stories In Service in your city.

The Impact

  • Create local community spaces where intergenerational audiences feel inspired to interact and sharing stories with one another
  • Restore positive cultural images in urban communities by sharing stories that communicate strengths, sources of creativity and ideals of progress and unity
  • Challenge negative community images often perpetuated in mainstream media by creating our own media around “our stories”.
  • Gain the attention of arts, education and political leaders, advocating for cultural andeducational programming in communities
  •  Highlight the project as a display of a collective action towards strengthening andrebuilding communities that have been marginalized and misrepresented by mainstream
  • Support other groups in using traditional and cultural arts as a tool for progressive social change.

Other Ways You Can Help

  • Send this campaign out in your groups newsletter or in an email to your friends
  • Organize groups to attend one of the neighborhood events
  • Collect group donations - share the project with people in your office, church, dance class or community group and make a donation to the project in the groups' name (it will appear in the credits of our broadcast)
  • Support the storytellers in your own community and recognize them for their "griot work".
  • Stay in touch with us:
 
 
 

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