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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.
Episodes
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Youth leaders discuss social media and its impact on young people’s lives and brains with Emma Lembke, founder of Log Off, a movement founded by teens for teens who want a safer and healthier relationship with social media. Recorded in Zoom on December 7, 2021.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
Good For Your Health
Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2019
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.
Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was 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 grant of 2021, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance.
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Monday Dec 27, 2021
In Part IV of the series, Misunderstanding, Fear, and Hate, the discussion will focus on the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community. Stitchers Youth Council’s guests include actor, creative activist, and educator Merlin Bell and Marc Ridgell, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis, studying Africana Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Sociology. Marc is a research fellow for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. In partnership with the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, they are assisting with editing written work, organizing budgets, and they are also collaborating on this podcast with StitchCast Studio.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
Anti
Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2018
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.
Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was 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 grant of 2021, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance.
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Youth leaders discuss the impact of StitchCast Studio and the evolution of the youth-led podcast. Recorded in Zoom on December 1, 2021.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
We Cope by Emeara Burns
Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2019
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.
Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was 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 grant of 2021, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance.
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
In part III of the series, youth leaders have a conversation about how misunderstandings can lead to fear. Recorded live at 3524 Washington Ave on November 12, 2021.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
Perception Isn’t Always Reality by KP Dennis
Executive Producer: Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2015
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.
Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was 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 grant of 2021, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance.
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Youth leaders explore evoking emotion and fear in storytelling by sharing their own spooky stories.
Recorded in Zoom on October 29, 2021.
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.
Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was 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 grant of 2021, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance
Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Youth leaders welcome Mama Cat, the Saint Louis chef who is the founder and CEO of Pot Bangerz Feed the Body Mission to StitchCast Studio to discuss the unhoused family and explore how misunderstanding can lead to fear and fear can lead to hate. Recorded live at 3524 Washington Ave on November 12, 2021.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
Wade
Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2020
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.
Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was 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 grant of 2021, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance.
Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Youth leaders and their mentor Ntegrity discuss how misunderstandings can lead to fear in social systems set up to fail entire groups of people. Are systems such as the school system and the workforce system set up to fail Black youth? Recorded in Zoom on October 26, 2021.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
The Why and The Way by KP Dennis
The WHY of My City, Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2020
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.
Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was 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 grant of 2021, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance.
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Youth leaders discuss nature as a healing agent from trauma and stress.
Recorded in Zoom on September 28, 2021.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
Prairie Therapy
Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2019
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.
Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was 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 grant of 2021, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance.
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Story Stitchers' guests Alexis Evans, MA, LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Meaghan Hill, MAEd, MA, LPC, NCC, Clinical Therapist, join youth leaders to discuss mental health in the second episode of a two part series.
Recorded live at 3524 Washington Ave on October 15, 2021.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
Will They Remember
Branden Lewis
The WHY of MY City, Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2020
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.
Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was 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 grant of 2021, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance.
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Life Without Art
Youth leaders discuss the importance of the arts in their personal lives and in contemporary society with St. Louis award-winning dancer Rich “Richie G” Gzelka. Rich has won awards like S.L.U.M.F.E.S.T. Bboy of the Year, Rock and Groove Bboy and All Styles Champion, as well as Breaking Champion at CKDC's Annual Beat Kill Jam. He served Story Stitchers as a dance battle judge throughout the summer of 2021. Recorded in Zoom on September 30, 2021.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
Wade Reprise
Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2020
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.
Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was 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 grant of 2021, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance.