The Divided City IV Story as Healer in Black Culture Released


StitchCast Studio Special Edition: The Divided City IV

Story as Healer in Black Culture

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StitchCast Studio Special Edition: The Divided City is a series of four unique conversations in the series will bring historical context around recurring topics chosen by youth in the StitchCast Studio published podcasts, including: the culture of trauma caused by poverty and repeated exposure to violence amongst families of color in St. Louis, stories of disorientation and dislocation of black families, and the power of story as healer in black cultures through time. 

Story Stitchers’ youth led by Stitchers Youth Council co-chairs Branden Lewis and Emeara Burns discuss concepts associated with story as a healing agent in Black culture over time with filmmaker and Washington University alumnus, B.D. Architecture, Jun Bae and St. Louis’s own legendary master storyteller, Bobby Norfolk.

 

Pick the City UP Art Interlude

Saints of Louis

By Traydon Rogers

Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2021

 

This project is funded by The Divided City initiative. The Divided City is a joint project of the Center for the Humanities and the Sam Fox School, College of Architecture and Urban Design at Washington University in St. Louis. The Divided City is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

StitchCast Studio Season II in 2021 is sponsored by the Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund’s three year grant 2020-22, Arts and Education Council PNC Grant, and Lush Corporation’s The Charity Pot.