SUPPORT THE PICK THE CITY UP TOUR!!
Pick the City UP Annual Tour presents Saint Louis Story Stitchers unique brand of urban storytelling, featuring live 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. The Tour stops at community centers, neighborhoods and cultural venues across St. Louis.
Hoodies $35 / Tz $20
While Supplies Last!
Free to Stitchers Youth Council Members!
Story Stitchers products are available at the Stitchers Storefront Studio, 616 N Skinker and at some public events.
TRAP LIFE Where Teen Choices Matter
“Trap Life – Where Teen Choices Matter” is an educational board game developed by youth and adults in the Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective. The game encourages youth to think strategically about choices they may need to make as they navigate American urban life and their high school years. In this game, the first player to graduate high school wins!
Available now!
$89.99 on Game Crafter
Not Another One! A Discussion on Gun Violence
Purchase the full color book today at LuLu HERE!!
Add to school libraries, utilize in high school and college classrooms, and for professional training for anyone working with youth or studying race relations, trauma and gun violence prevention.
Not Another One! is a youth-led discussion that opens communication and identifies commonality, greater understanding, and ways to cooperate and collaborate between city police and teenage youth as both work to lower the high rates of gun violence in St. Louis, Missouri. The discussion details citizen rights, police policies and procedures, trauma caused by gun violence, and possible solutions in a frank, honest, and respectful discussion.
The discussion was transcribed and a book and is now available with foreword by Jason Q. Purnell, Ph.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Not Another One! A Play for Peace – Original script produced and staged for high schools by Saint Louis Story Stitchers.
Digital copies of the script and curriculum packet available – $100 first copy, script may be reproduced for your classroom.
https://vimeo.com/219397748 (52:09 minutes)
Based on this discussion and book: https://vimeo.com/151743992
School Assembly Teaser: https://vimeo.com/231030335
Student Teaser: https://vimeo.com/238521655
Curating Teen Voices: Coming of Age
Curating Teen Voices: Coming of Age is a time capsule of teenage voices combined with adult artists living in St. Louis in 2015, all reacting to a critical and unique time in the history of race relations, gun violence, police roles and community relationships in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. The project has been led by Mariana Parisca, Story Stitchers Artist in Residence. Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective is a nonprofit organization where artists and urban youth collect stories, reframe and retell them through art to promote understanding, civic pride, and literacy. The project eloquently puts a megaphone to unheard voices, generating new respect for minority youth and brushing implicit biases away.
Special thanks to the contributing artists include Heather Bennett, Michael Byron, Carmon Colangelo, Addoley Dzegede, Ann Hamilton, Kahlil Irving, Buzz Spector, and selected youth.
The project contains an edition of 10 portfolios, each containing 30 archival digital prints. Each portfolio is housed in a handcrafted archival box created by Saint Louis Story Stitchers artist-in-residence Mariana Parisca. A limited number of sheets of images will be available. Proceeds benefit the ongoing work of the Saint Louis Story Stitchers.
Mariana Parisca, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art with a double major in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. Parisca joined the Saint Louis Story Stitchers after graduation in 2015 as an artist in residence. Mariana spent the first eight years of her life in Caracas, Venezuela, her family’s home. In 2000 Parisca and her nuclear family immigrated to suburban Ohio. Parisca’s immigration experience as well as the diaspora of her family landscape incite an interest in sense of self and place that she explores through her work. She is currently the Admission counselor at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Limited Edition Portfolio available through
Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective Record Label
Music is available on iTunes and in all digital stores.
ANTI now available on SPOTIFY
Good For Your Health now available on SPOTIFY
To The Prairie now available on SPOTIFY
Available on iTunes, apple music, and spotify and major music platforms.
Who’s Ready? now available on SPOTIFY
They Think Its OK! now available on
Not Another One! now available on
Gunshots! now available on
Perception Isn’t Always Reality now available on
Souvenir Poetry and Lyric Books
$15 plus S+H
STAND DOWN RISE UP
TO THE PRAIRIE
FOOD IN OUR HANDS
GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH
Story Stitchers products are available at the Stitchers Storefront Studio, 616 N Skinker and at some public events.
