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Stickball & Memories Of The Street
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenProduced by Sharon Barr
With only a broom handle, a rubber ball, a bunch of guys, and a street, you can engage in a full scale, bona fide, serious, respectable game similar in feel to classic baseball. And talk about a field. Who can beat manhole covers for bases, cars and walls for foul lines, roofs for bleachers?
Sharon Barr enrolled in a Scribe non-linear editing workshop in 1997 to learn how to assemble home videos for her parents’ upcoming wedding anniversary. The footage that she brought to class of an annual Brooklyn stick ball in upstate New York developed into Stickballs and Memories of the Street, a short documentary on the history of street games as an aspect of class and culture. Sharon, an attorney with an expertise in real estate, planning and development, provided pro bono services to Scribe in 1998 and joined the board in 1999. As a civic and cultural leader, Barr has served on the Boards of the Painted Bride Art Center (President), NetworkArts Philadelphia (Chair), Scribe Video Center, Mt Airy USA - A Community Development Corporation, the Fairmount Park Advisory Council, the Preservation Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, and as Co-Chair of the Building Committee for Mishkan Shalom Synagogue.
June 13, 2002 - Screen Picks, Philadelphia City Paper
July 3, 2002 - arts and entertainment mention by Michael Elkin, The Jewish Exponent
June 13, 14 & 15, 2002 - Scribe Weekend at Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia, PA)
