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Story Stitchers’ Pick the City UP Single Released!


Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective

Pick the City UP Single Released!

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The vibrant video titled “Pick the City Up” showcases the journey of young people as they spearhead the creation of their new SPACE, illustrating their instrumental role in its development.

 

Premiere Link on YouTube

KARAOKE COUTURE

There will be a public screening of the video August 5th at Story Stitchers’ event, Karaoke Couture.

Saturday, August 5, 2023, 6:00-9:30 

LOCATION: HIGH LOW, 3301 Grandel Sq, 1A, 63108 in Kranzberg Arts Foundation, Grand Center

Free, All ages, Cash bar

Pick the City UP is a multi-year project by Saint Louis Story Stitchers that brings performances by the people to the people at block parties, community centers, festivals and more.

Karaoke Couture and the 2023 Pick the City UP Tour are sponsored in part by Regional Art Commission, Kranzberg Arts Foundation, The Lewis Prize for Music, the City of St. Louis Department of Public Safety and Office of Violence Prevention, Deaconess Foundation,  Cardinals Care, and Trio Foundation of St. Louis.

Next Stop:

Sunday August 6, 2023

Marquette Park Community Day in Dutchtown

Performance 2:00

StitchCast Studio LIVE!


StitchCast Studio LIVE!

Watch and be a part of Story Stitchers Youth Council’s live podcast discussions, presented on the state-of-the-arts stage, High Low, 3301 Washington Ave. Story Stitchers artists and guest artists will round out each presentation with live art interludes.

Reserve your Free Ticket TODAY!

Public Events

6:00-9:00 at High Low

February 28 – StitchCast Studio LIVE!

March 28 – StitchCast Studio LIVE!

April  25 – StitchCast Studio LIVE!

May 23 – StitchCast Studio LIVE!

June 6 – StitchCast Studio LIVE!

Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ StitchCast Studio LIVE! in Season V is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. On the web at arts dot gov.

Support for Story Stitchers creative youth development programs is provided in part by The Lewis Prize for Music 2021 Accelerator Award.

Additional support in 2023 for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs is provided by the Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund, Arts & Education Council, Trio Foundation, Deaconess Foundation, and Kranzberg Arts Foundation.

Interested in joining Stitchers Youth Council? Drop us a note and we’ll reach back!

Wholistic Homecomings


 

“I think of a safe space, where I don’t have to worry about being judged. Home is a warm place, a place where I can find loved ones or people I care deeply about.” — Branden Lewis, Youth Program Coordinator, Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artist Collective

The Wholistic Homecomings Essay Series welcomes readers to examine the variety of ways that Creative Youth Development organizations push our collective thinking forward on building trust, safety, and family during these extraordinary times.

Launched in 2017 with a mission to partner with transformative leaders who create positive change by investing in young people through music, The Lewis Prize for Music (TLPM) has built a network of over 70 funded organizations. Through a national prize process granting cycle, TLPM identified the second cohort of Accelerator Awardees, whose organizations underscore the potential for young people to utilize Creative Youth Development as a vehicle to address inequitable systems that have unjustly marginalized their communities.

The 2021 Accelerator Awardees are Celina Miranda from Hyde Square Task Force (Boston, Massachusetts), DeLashea Strawder from Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit (Detroit, Michigan), Matthew Kerr and Christopher Thornton from Beyond the Bars (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), and Susan Colangelo from Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective (Saint Louis, Missouri). Each of the Accelerator Awardees received $500,000 from The Lewis Prize for Music to uplift systems change efforts at their respective organizations.

Following the Accelerator Award recognition, The Lewis Prize for Music invited these leaders to share with a national audience the ways their organizations have emerged as vital spaces for belonging, centering the leadership values, practices, and strategies that have led youth to thrive. In the Wholistic Homecomings Essay Series, Accelerator Awardees highlight the importance of homecoming, reflecting on the ways their organizations have risen to the immense challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the gaps they have already strived to fill in response to systemic inequities.

The Wholistic Homecomings Essay Series welcomes readers to examine the variety of ways that Creative Youth Development organizations push our collective thinking forward on building trust, safety, and family during these extraordinary times. Accelerator Awardees highlight the importance of homecoming, reflecting on the ways their organizations have risen to the immense challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the gaps they have already strived to fill in response to systemic inequities.

Learn about the work of #CreativeYouthDevelopment organizations who are recreating the concept of home in the new Wholistic Homecomings Essay Series written by The Lewis Prize for Music Accelerator Awardees www.thelewisprize.org/wholistic-homecomings

Drawing Credit: Chandra, commissioned by The Lewis Prize For Music for The Wholistic Homecomings Essay Series

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