Saint Louis Story Stitchers are excited to take the 2019 Pick the City UP Tour to Miss Tillie’s Corner for a big ol’ Block Party!!!
Story Stitchers send a very special THANK YOU to Carla and Miguel Alexander for hosting us for the 3rd year in a row!! Wooo Hooo!!!
LIVE SHOW!
Saturday, July 13
Pick the City UP
1:00 -3:00 PM
Miss Tillie’s Corner Block Party and Health Resource Fair
1345 N Garrison, St. Louis, MO 63106
JeffVanderLou
Pick the City UP 2019 Tour presents Saint Louis Story Stitchers unique brand of urban storytelling, featuring live original STL hip hop, spoken word and story magic on public health issues St. Louis cares about including gun violence. Pay tribute, join the fun, and make a difference. Bringing positive change to the Lou.
Story Stitchers July 13th performance will include Master Storyteller Bobby Norfolk, leading hip hop artist KP Dennis and the wild and wonderful Ntegrity plus a great line up from Stitchers Youth Council!
A fun, educational, family-friendly show you will remember!
#DROPTHEGUN #KEEPTHEPEACE STL!!
Pick the City UP 2019 Tour is presented with support from Missouri Foundation for Health, LUSH Corporation’s The Charity Pot, Regional Arts Commission, Kranzberg Arts Foundation, Steward Family Foundation, Cardinals Care, and Incarnate Word Foundation.
The Block Party presented by Miss Tillie’s Corner includes a wide array of health resource vendors and civic leaders who will engage with the neighborhood and enjoy conversations and snacks in this historic JeffVanderLou neighborhood.
Vendors this year include Moms Demand Action, Father’s Support, Stop the Bleed, Safe House, League of Women Voters, City of St. Louis Health Department, and more!
Saint Louis Story Stitchers are excited to kick off the 2019 Pick the City UP Tour during Fair St. Louis at the Gateway Arch National Park!!
Come and cool off inside in the beautiful new Mezzanine!
Pick the City UP 2019 Tour presents Saint Louis Story Stitchers unique brand of urban storytelling, featuring live original STL hip hop, spoken word and story magic on public health issues St. Louis cares about including gun violence. Pay tribute, join the fun, and make a difference. Bringing positive change to the Lou.
Story Stitchers July 6th performance will include Master Storyteller Bobby Norfolk, leading hip hop artist KP Dennis and the wild and wonderful Ntegrity plus a great line up from Stitchers Youth Council!
A fun, educational, family-friendly show you will remember!
#DROPTHEGUN #KEEPTHEPEACE STL!!
Pick the City UP 2019 Tour is presented with support from Missouri Foundation for Health, LUSH Corporation’s The Charity Pot, Regional Arts Commission, Kranzberg Arts Foundation, Steward Family Foundation, Cardinals Care, and Incarnate Word Foundation.
As part of the Pick the City UP 2019 Tour, Saint Louis Story Stitchers presents an arts activists and organizers training session for young artists 16-24 years old. The sessions will be presented with two parts by social justice artist Joel King, CEO/Owner at JPEK CREATIVE WORKS.
Pre-registration is required. Space is limited. Contact storystitchers@gmail.com or call 314-899-9001 for more information. Youth providers and parole officers are welcome to inquire. Free.
LIVE SHOW!
Saturday, July 13
Pick the City UP
1:00 -3:00 PM
Miss Tillie’s Corner Block Party and Health Resource Fair
Saint Louis Story Stitchers are excited to kick off the 2019 Pick the City UP Tour during Fair St. Louis at the Gateway Arch National Park!!
Come and cool off inside in the beautiful new Mezzanine!
Pick the City UP 2019 Tour presents Saint Louis Story Stitchers unique brand of urban storytelling, featuring live original STL hip hop, spoken word and story magic on public health issues St. Louis cares about including gun violence. Pay tribute, join the fun, and make a difference. Bringing positive change to the Lou.
Story Stitchers July 6th performance will include Master Storyteller Bobby Norfolk, leading hip hop artist KP Dennis and the wild and wonderful Ntegrity plus a great line up from Stitchers Youth Council!
A fun, educational, family-friendly show you will remember!
#DROPTHEGUN #KEEPTHEPEACE STL!!
Saturday, July 6
Pick the City UP
1:00-2:00 PM
Fair St. Louis!
Gateway Arch National Park
Mezzanine
11 N 4th St., St. Louis, MO 63102
Free and open to the public
YOUTH OPPORTUNITY
Tuesday, July 9
Pick the City UP Art Activists Training
Youth @ The Center
9:00 AM -3:00 PM
Kranzberg Arts Center
501 N Grand, St. Louis, MO 63103
As part of the Pick the City UP 2019 Tour, Saint Louis Story Stitchers presents an arts activists and organizers training session for young artists 16-24 years old. The sessions will be presented with two parts by social justice artist Joel King, CEO/Owner at JPEK CREATIVE WORKS.
Pre-registration is required. Space is limited.
Contact storystitchers@gmail.com or call 314-899-9001 for more information.
Pick the City UP 2019 Tour is presented with support from Missouri Foundation for Health, Regional Arts Commission, LUSH Corporation’s The Charity Pot, Kranzberg Arts Foundation, Steward Family Foundation, Cardinals Care, and Incarnate Word Foundation.
Stitchers Youth Council members paint a fence on the lot of Wellston Loop Community Development Corporation’s 1514 Hodiamont city lot.
M-AAA is pleased to announce the FY20 Artistic Innovations grantees, supporting the creation and presentation of new artistic endeavors taking place between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020 in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
With this year’s total of $165,400, Artistic Innovations awards grants of up to $15,000 to artists and organizations creating innovative new work. Grantees are chosen by a selection panel of artists and arts professionals from across the six-state region, including past recipients. This year’s thirteen grants are made possible by generous funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Todd Stein, President and CEO of Mid-America Arts Alliance, says, “Through this grant program, we encourage the spirit of experimentation and exploration, exclusively engaging regional artists and arts organizations in the creation of new, original works for audiences across the M-AAA region. We have awarded more than $1 million in total awards through Artistic Innovations, and we are so pleased to continue this stellar program with an exciting slate of recipients.”
Saint Louis Story Stitchers is pleased to announce it will receive a FY20 Artistic Innovations grant for $7,000 for a new program entitled, The WHY of MY City.
Additional support for this program is provided by Missouri Foundation for Health, Steward Family Foundation, St. Louis Storytelling Festival, a part of the University of Missouri Extension Services Community Arts Program, and Kranzberg Arts Foundation.
The WHY of MY City is an artistic commission designed to raise awareness on gun violence prevention and rebuild civic pride for St. Louis, MO, which has neighborhoods that are reeling from gun violence. A new work by African American artists will explore why citizens do and should care about their neighborhoods, even as outsiders might see the same city blocks as uninhabitable. Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artist Collective is working collaboratively to create an approach to public health issues affecting Missouri’s African American urban youth. The Collective brings the arts to the forefront through a unique form of “urban storytelling” that includes rhythm, rap and word to attract attention, build excitement, and communicate key concepts from public safety and health professionals to the public.
Professional artists work alongside dedicated African American youth, ages 16–24 years old. Saint Louis Story Stitchers works in collaboration with the City of St. Louis Department of Health to identify key concepts that will help youth to stay healthy and avoid guns and gangs. The works will debut at the 41st St. Louis Storytelling Festival in 2020 and become a consistent part of the Story Stitchers’ live performance repertoire.
The public is invited to share stories about their own neighborhoods.
Stories will be collected during the Pick the City UP Tour’s neighborhood stops including July 13th from 1:00-3:00 at Tillie’s Corner, 1345 N Garrison; August 3rd from 1:00-4:00 at the West Side Street Feast at 1514 Hodiamont; and on August 10th from 11:00-3:00 at Gregory J Carter Park in Walnut Park, 5800 Lillian Avenue.
Please call 314-899-9001 or email storystitchers@gmail.com for more information.
Bailey Spencer works with Stitchers Youth Council members during a creative session.
Saint Louis Story Stitchers is pleased to welcome poet Bailey Spencer as the new Summer Program Coordinator. Bailey will head up youth communication and handle the logistics of the summer programs including youth leadership activities. Bailey’s position is supported by the LUSH Corporation’s The Charity Pot.
Bailey earned the MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017 and is now a lecturer teaching writing and poetry at Washington University as well as at St. Louis Community College. Bailey worked with youth on writing projects at Intersect Arts Center in 2018.
Merlin Bell, who has served as Saint Louis Story Stitchers director of programs and community engagement since January, 2019, is moving on the take a position teaching drama in Beijing, China at the end of June.
Story Stitchers would like to thank our community friends for welcoming Merlin during his time here. We would also like to thank Merlin for the good work he did on the organization’s behalf during his tenure.
Good luck in your new home and position, Merlin! We wish you all the best! Send pics!!
Saint Louis Story Stitchers will be listing the position through INDEED soon. Stay tuned!
Stitchers Storefront Studio, 616 N Skinker Blvd, 63130
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Join Saint Louis Story Stitchers in supporting real change. Let’s support good in the world and make a difference. Youth gun violence is a terrible problem that takes innocent lives. Youth who are living in economically challenged neighborhoods are at the highest risk to be effected by gun violence. But this CAN change!
Story Stitchers work shows African American youth in positive roles as active, leading members of their generation and of the community at large. Youth engaged in the program experience social and emotional support and personal growth, become active and engaged citizens, learn to cooperate and collaborate, have strong mentors and build lasting friendships, and are less likely to become involved in criminal activity and youth violence.
Help Saint Louis Story Stitchers save young lives!
Join Saint Louis Story Stitchers in supporting real change. Let’s support good in the world and make a difference. Youth gun violence is a terrible problem that takes innocent lives. Youth who are living in economically challenged neighborhoods are at the highest risk to be effected by gun violence as either a victim or a perpetrator. But this CAN change!
Story Stitchers work shows African American youth in positive roles as active, leading members of their generation and of the community at large. Youth engaged in the program experience social and emotional support and personal growth, become active and engaged citizens, learn to cooperate and collaborate, have strong mentors and build lasting friendships, and are less likely to become involved in criminal activity and youth violence.
Help Saint Louis Story Stitchers save young lives!
Story Stitchers Perform LIVE at 2:00 inside STL Art Works
Event: Noon to 5:00
Vendor Tents at Delmar and Hamilton.
Visit the Story Stitchers tent!
Live performances inside STL Art Works
Including:
1 PM Opening Ceremony with Drum Master Kunama Mtendaji 2 PM Story Stitchers
3 PM Pamoja Ensemble
4 PM Groove Tribe
Sounds by DJ KP DA KID
Activities and More:
– 1 PM to 2:30 PM Science Learning Labs
-12 PM to 5 PM Great Rivers Greenway
-12 PM to 5 PM Association of African Ancestor Researchers of St. Louis
– 3 PM A special reading by Yzabella Skye Marie Younger, author of “Yzzy Saves the Ocean”
On-going activities and events in the businesses on the 5800 block of Delmar. Food and children’s activities, too.
Free Parking at 5863 Delmar next to the Loop Trolley Headquarters.
Questions? Please email us at events@thedelmarloop.com
Saint Louis Story Stitchers are excited to take the 2019 Pick the City UP Tour to Miss Tillie’s Corner for a big ol’ Block Party!!!
