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StitchCast Studio is a podcast produced by Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective in Saint Louis, Missouri. It’s a show about the streets, gun violence, and finding solutions to issues that are coming at our youth hard. The voices of youth of color are important to hear at this critical time. StitchCast Studio creates a series of leveled conversations about issues that concern youth related to health, safety and violence. This is the place to come to hear real conversations about what’s on the minds of 16-25 year old St. Louis teens and young adults and catch some powerful new ideas for solutions. Programs include original spoken word and music produced by Saint Louis Story Stitchers. Saint Louis Story Stitchers is a nationally recognized Artists Collective know for high quality art ad innovative youth violence prevention programs. StitchCast Studio has received supported from the National Endowment for the Arts, On the web at arts dot gov. Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs has been provided by provided by the Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund, The Lewis Prize for Music Accelerator Award, City of St. Louis Youth at Risk Crime Prevention, March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance, Deaconess Foundation, Trio Foundation of St. Louis, Missouri Arts Council, Missouri Humanities Council, Arts and Education Council, and The Divided City, Washington University in St. Louis. To learn more visit storystitchers.org.
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Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Youth leaders hold a public Story Circle as part of the Perception Isn’t Always Reality.
With support from the CDC Foundation, the Saint Louis Story Stitchers project Perception Isn’t Always Reality will engage Black teen and young adult artists to re-evaluate messages they may have received about COVID and vaccinations and evaluate the sources of the information. Through their own brand of urban storytelling that involves collaborative work in hip-hop music, krump dance, videography, photography, and podcasting, the artists will produce a body of work for the public to view on urban canvases, such as the sides of city buses, and listen to on the airwaves.
Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, the Director of Health for the City of St. Louis joins to answer questions about Covid vaccines for this live recording at Central Library, St. Louis Public Library, March 11, 2022.
Saint Louis Story Stitchers is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. On the web at arts dot gov.
Story Stitchers is supported by The Lewis Prize for Music’s 2021 Accelerator Award. The mission of The Lewis Prize is to partner with leaders who create positive change by investing in young people through music.
Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was provided by the Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund, City of St. Louis Youth at Risk Crime Prevention grant of 2021, Lush Corporation’s The Charity Pot, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance.
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