Community Visions Premiere
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Join us for a celebration of the completion of the latest videos produced by participants in Scribe’s Community Visions program.
Students of the Jubilee School, in West Philadelphia, have been collecting oral histories and tales of courage and resistance as told to them by their community elders. Walls and Doors: Inspirations from Our Elders transmits a legacy from one generation to the next.
On the corner of 60th and Vine, youth are building bikes and breaking stereotypes at Neighborhood Bike Works, a non-profit where youth recycle old bikes as they acquire technical expertise and improve their bike riding skills. Their video shows young people working hard, getting along with each other and taking an interest in the history of their community.
Shaw Middle School, a city public school, is creating a videotape to emphasize their literacy and arts initiatives. The Resistance through the Arts School, the Sonia Sanchez Literacy Center, the Freedom School and BEACON are among the showcased educational programs.
The 1199C Training and Upgrading Fund aspires to fill the region's lack of nursing and allied health professionals with members of the community who are nontraditional candidates for these positions. Their video, New Faces, follows several graduates of the training program, portraying their histories, their current occupations and their reflections of the program.