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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
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
In this week's episode, 16-24 year old Stitchers Youth Council leaders brainstorm with host Emeara Burns about The Center, a project to create a youth arts and technology center supported in part by a 2021 Accelerator Award from The Lewis Prize For Music and discuss the future of Story Stitchers. Recorded live in Zoom January 28, 2021.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
America The Beautiful
Featuring Roland Johnson with Stitchers Youth Council
Copyright Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2019
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
StitchCast Studio Special Edition: The Divided City I
Understanding Trauma
A conversation exploring trauma with Story Stitchers’ black youth led by Stitchers Youth Council co-chairs Branden Lewis and Emeara Burns with LJ Punch, MD, President, Power4STL and an American Critical Care Surgeon.
Four unique conversations in the series will bring historical context around recurring topics chosen by youth in the StitchCast Studio published podcasts, including: the culture of trauma caused by poverty and repeated exposure to violence amongst families of color in St. Louis, stories of disorientation and dislocation of black families, and the power of story as healer in black cultures through time.
This project is funded by The Divided City initiative. The Divided City is a joint project of the Center for the Humanities and the Sam Fox School, College of Architecture and Urban Design at Washington University in St. Louis. The Divided City is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
Youth leaders discuss the stigmas around STI’s, pregnancy, and safe sex practices with Ebony Boyce Carter, MD, MPH, a Washington University Physician with a specialty in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and a practice in High Risk Obstetrics. Recorded live in Zoom December 18, 2020.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
Different
Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective, 2017
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Season I
Episode 29
Covid-19 Vaccine
Fears and Facts
Stitchers Youth leaders discuss fears and concerns swirling around the Covid-19 vaccine with their friend Dr. LJ Punch from The “T”.
Recorded live in Zoom December 17, 2020.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude
Good For Your Health
Copyright Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2019
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Episode 28
Reflecting on StitchCast Studio Season I
Youth leaders reflect on Season I of StitchCast Studio which included topics related to trauma such as Covid-19, gun violence, police brutality, mental health, compounding issues and more. Recorded November 13, 2020 in Zoom.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude:
What’s your Why
By KP Dennis and Ntegrity
Copyright Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Episode 27 Season I
The Center Part I
Story Stitchers discuss becoming one of eight organizations nation-wide to reach the finalist stage of The Lewis Prize for Music’s 2021 Accelerator $500,000 grant competition. Youth and staff reflect on their application’s focus, a new youth arts and technology facility for Saint Louis’ at-risk youth called “The Center.” Recorded in Zoom on December 2, 2020.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude - Who’s Ready?
Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2018.
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
EPISODE XXVI
COP ON MY BLOCK
Youth leaders discuss the role of police, the impact of police policies on black youth, and the concept of inoculation with guest Luther Tyus, MSW and a former police officer. Recorded live in Strauss Park on November 6, 2020.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude: Saints of Louis
Copyright Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2020
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Friday Nov 27, 2020
EPISODE XXV
Media and Influence
Youth leaders discuss the role and influence of media in today’s society with guest Rhyan Henson, a special assignment reporter at KSDK. Recorded live in Strauss Park on October 30, 2020 at a Story Stitchers Dance Battle event.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude: Perception Isn’t Always Reality
Copyright KP Dennis and Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2016
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
EPISODE XXIV
Painting For The People (Part II)
Youth leaders discuss painting a fence mural on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive as a part of The Shelter Project, a community collaboration which creates a bus shelter and fence mural painting for the neighborhood with collaborators Kim Jayne and Hassan Shariff from the Wellston Loop Community Development Corporation, bus shelter designers Jessica Colangelo and Charles Sharpless from Somewhere Studio, LLC, and Adrian Gonzalez from Katherine Bernhardt's studio. Youth Council members worked with artist Katherine Bernhardt to create the mural, which is located on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. at Hodiamont. Recorded live in Zoom September 15, 2020.
The Shelter Project is sponsored in part by Wellston Loop Community Development Corporation, Somewhere Studio, LLC, Wells Goodfellow Neighborhood Improvement Association, Katherine Bernhardt, Metro St. Louis, Alberici Constructors, Inc., Ryan Goser of Goser Structural Engineering, LLC, LJ Punch, MD and “The T”, Cure Violence, and Saint Louis Story Stitchers youth programs such as mural painting and community organizing for The Shelter Project are supported through grants from the City of St. Louis Youth Crime Prevention grant of 2020, Youthbridge Community Foundation Nonprofit Recovery and Resilience Fund, Missouri Foundation for Health, Incarnate Word Foundation, Regional Arts Commission, and Arts and Education Council PNC, and Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund.
StitchCast Studio is sponsored by City of St. Louis’ Youth at Risk Crime Prevention Grant of 2020, Steward Family Foundation, Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund’s three year grant 2020-22, Arts and Education Council PNC Grant, and Missouri Foundation for Health.
To learn more visit storystitchers.org.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude: Dear Shooters
Copyright KP Dennis and Branden Lewis, 2018.
Recording Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2018.
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Painting For The People
(Part I)
Youth leaders discuss painting a fence mural on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive as a part of The Shelter Project, a community collaboration which creates a bus shelter and fence mural painting for the neighborhood. Youth Council members worked with artist Katherine Bernhardt to create the mural. Recorded live in Zoom September 8, 2020.
The Shelter Project is sponsored in part by Wellston Loop Community Development Corporation, Somewhere Studio, LLC, Wells Goodfellow Neighborhood Improvement Association, Katherine Bernhardt, Metro St. Louis, Alberici Constructors, Inc., Ryan Goser of Goser Structural Engineering, LLC, LJ Punch, MD and “The T”, and Saint Louis Story Stitchers youth programs such as mural painting and community organizing for The Shelter Project are supported through grants from the City of St. Louis Youth Crime Prevention grant of 2020, Youthbridge Community Foundation Nonprofit Recovery and Resilience Fund, Missouri Foundation for Health, Incarnate Word Foundation, Regional Arts Commission, and Arts and Education Council PNC, and Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund.
Pick the City UP Art Interlude: Sneak Attack
KP Dennis and Branden Lewis
Copyright Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2020