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Eve's Garden
Posted July 18th, 2008 by TeishanHeart of Camden with Scribe Video Center
This video is available for purchase as part of the Precious Places Community History Project Vol. 3 compilation DVD.
South Camden may not normally evoke images of verdant foliage and bountiful vegetable gardens. With an assortment of industries, an incinerator, a sewage treatment plant, and toxic areas including two federal Superfund sites, the neighborhood is severely affected by pollution. Respiratory and other health ailments are widespread, and neighborhood groups have decried the environmental racism that has rendered their very air a dire health hazard.
Cliveden Park: Our Tree of Life
Posted December 6th, 2007 by InternDistrict Community Action Council with Scribe Video Center
Videomaking Consultant - Filmon Mebrahtu, Humanities Consultant - Vincent Williams, Post Production - Filmon Merahtu
This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol.1 compilation DVD.
Historic Cliveden Park sits in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, a few blocks from the site of the Battle of Germantown during the Revolutionary War. And in the park sits an enormous oak tree estimated at over two hundred years old that neighbors call their "tree of life." Across generations, the park has been a place where residents of East Mt. Airy, through their care and upkeep of this green space, show their love for their community and each other.
Traveling the Avenue: A Story of History, Faith, Culture and Civic Action
Posted December 6th, 2007 by InternGermantown Historical Society with Scribe Video Center
Videomaking Consultant - Marlene Patterson and Carter Baker, Humanities Consultant - Richard Green, Post Production - Carter Baker
This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol.1 compilation DVD.
Germantown, originally known as German Township during its colonial days, is rich with history. The area has numerous historic sites, places of worship, and cultural institutions, making this area one of Philadelphia's great treasures. Through it runs Germantown Avenue. In Traveling the Avenue: A Story of History, Faith, Culture and Civic Action, the Germantown Historical Society takes the viewer on a mini-tour of six diverse points of interest along the avenue. Included are Mt. Zion Baptist Church, founded in 1871, and St.
Southwark: 30 Years and Growing
Posted October 1st, 2007 by GretjenNeighborhood Gardens Association, Southwark Queen’s Village Community Garden with Scribe Video Center
This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol.2 compilation DVD.
Queen Village Community Garden is one of Philadelphia’s oldest community gardens. Located on Christian Street in South Philadelphia since 1976, the garden is a vital green space set aside for the enjoyment of the ethnically diverse neighborhood. Since the garden's beginning, diversity among the membership has been consciously encouraged, and the garden quickly became a bridge between whites and blacks in the community. "Our goal was to bring together all the parts of the neighborhood," says Libby J. Goldstein, one of the garden's founders.
Neighborhood Gardens Association is a an urban land trust that works to ensure the continuity and preservation of existing community managed gardens and open spaces in Philadelphia, primarily in low and moderate income neighborhoods.
From A Seed To This : A History Of Fairmount Park
Posted July 19th, 2007 by Gretjen2005 Documentary History Project for Youth
Hidden among the skyscrapers, townhouses, mansions and museums of Philadelphia lies the 9000-acre Fairmount Park. Opening with a stunning rap that colorfully and thoroughly encapsulates the history of the park from the days of the original Native Americans to the multicultural assortment of Philadelphians who use the park system now, the video is an open invitation to explore the poetic past, present and future of the world's largest city park. Special attention is devoted to the Centennial celebrations of 1876, the Fairmount Park Waterworks, and the system's natural and man-made parks.
The student video makers who participated in this 2005 Documentary History Project for Youth production are: Ahmadu Ekpaji (Philadelphia Mennonite High School), Tahirah Garrett (Germantown Settlement Charter), Kerry Gilbert (homeschooled), Lee Givhan (Central High School), Hannah Horwitz (Upper Darby High School), Brett Johnson (Roxborough High School), Alyssa Kreilick (Springfield Township High School) and Sophavy Phuong (Bodine High School for International Affairs).
Deborah Rudman is Media Coordinator for Drexel University Television (DUTV), an access channel providing diverse cultural programming. She has collaborated in all phases of the video production process, including curating and producing Through the Lens, a showcase of independent work for WYBE. She guided Scribe Video Center's Documentary History Project for Youth in both 2004 and 2005 in her role as project facilitator and instructor.
Rodney Whittenberg is president of Melodyvision, a music and video production studio and community service and education provider. A composer, producer, songwriter, and educator, Rodney has developed a variety of music and art education programs for youth, adults, and senior citizens. He has taught at Temple University, the University of the Arts, and Drexel University and is an active member on the board of the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP), the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). She guided Scribe Video Center's Documentary History Project for Youth in 2004 and 2005 in his role as project facilitator and instructor.
Several local humanities scholars came on board as project consultants, and they met with the facilitators and the student artists to help them map out and focus what often seemed like an overwhelming amount of project research. The Fairmount Park project humanities scholars included: Penny Balkin Bach (executive director of the Fairmount Park Art Association), Ed Grusheski (the Philadelphia Water Department's general manager of public affairs and director of development for the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center), Peter Rose (an experimental filmmaker commissioned by the Fairmount Park Art Association to produce 1994's Pavilion in the Trees), the late Ernesta Ballard (a former Fairmount Park Commissioner and board member of the Philadelphia Parks Alliance), Fairmount Park historic preservation planner Theresa Stuhlman, and University of Pennsylvania Urban Studies professor Dominic Vitiello. The students also held meetings with biologists at Cobbs Creek Park, and did extensive research at the Library Company and the Urban Archives.
Fall 2005 - Brief listing mention on MediaSmartPhilly.com
Ocotber 5, 2005 - Brief mention in Repertory Film listings, Philadelphia Weekly
October 6, 2005 - Premiered at International House (Philadelphia, PA)
October 21, 2005 - Screened at Scribe Video Center offices in West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
