Community Visions Premiere

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Community Visions Premiere!

Join us for a celebration of the completion of the latest videos produced by participants in Scribe’s Community Visions program.

Members of Chester’s Community Grocery Co-op address health and food access issues in Chester—a city with no supermarket and limited access to fresh food—and show how residents can make change for their community through organization and action.

The Youth Art and Self-empowerment Project explores the issues of young people being tried and incarcerated as adults and the impact this practice has on youth, their families and their communities. Through interviews with youth, inside and outside the prison system, the film explores factors that push youth into this situation and the day-to-day impact of carrying a criminal record.

The Every Mother is a Working Mother Network documents the stories of mothers and grandmothers who are fighting to get their kids out of foster care. Through these testimonies their film, DHS, Give Us Back Our Children, challenges the logic of the Foster Care industry by explaining how mothers are too frequently unjustly separated from their children.

In the middle of the Tioga neighborhood, Bridgeway Inc. has sought to build community and strengthen the lives of its members and neighbors. Their film describes the history of Tioga and the events that led to Bridgeway’s founding, ultimately showing the ways the community and the organization depend on one another.

Community Visions teaches documentary video-making skills to members of community organizations in Philadelphia, Chester and Camden. The selected groups — usually four each year — make videos about issues that are important to their constituents. Community Visions is a part of Scribe's mission to explore, develop and advance the use of video, film, audio and interactive technology as artistic tools and as tools for progressive social change.

Community Visions is made possible by support from Bread and Roses Community Fund, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Samuel S. Fels Fund, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Union Benevolent Association and Ann Greene.