Monday,
December 8 at 7pm
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Video
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Community
Visions
On
the corner of 60th and Vine, youth are building bikes and breaking
stereotypes at eighborhood
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.
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.
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.
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