HERE AND NOW | LIVE STORY TELLING
from our neighbors in Sunset Park
December 18 at 3pm
Target Margin Theater
FREE | Open to the Public | No Reservation Required
Join us at the Doxsee Theater as members of the Sunset Park community share their stories.
This event is part of the HERE & NOW Sunset Park Community Storytelling Project. Read more about the project below.
Every neighborhood is shaped by those who call it home.
Created in partnership with the Academy of Medical & Public Health Services, HERE AND NOW aims to foster community healing and build cross-cultural solidarity, providing a forum for personal experiences to be heard and engaging community members in the creative process.
From April through August 2022, Sunset Park community members (18+) were invited to come together in small groups to share stories about their lives and experiences. Sessions were led by an Artist Facilitators from Target Margin Theater along with wellness councilors from AMPHS. Sessions were offered in English, Mandarin, Spanish, and Arabic.
More than sixty members of the community participated in the sessions. For some, attending and sharing their stories with the small group was the full extent of their participation. But participants who wanted to share their stories with a broader audience were invited to develop them into an artistic piece during additional sessions with the Artist Facilitators.
Throughout the month of October, the Here and Now Exhibit at the Sunset Park branch of the Brooklyn Library highlighted community members who chose to develop their narratives further and record their stories as an artistic and therapeutic extension of their experiences. Stories were recorded in the participant’s preferred language. The exhibit ran at Sunset Park Library for the month of October.
To listen to the stories of Here and Now, scan the QR code:
or click here
Target Margin’s partner on HERE AND NOW is the Academy of Medical & Public Health Services:
AMPHS is a not-for-profit health service organization with a triple aim to identify barriers to health and wellness in underserved immigrant communities; coordinate truly needed primary care with social assistance; and deliver care with dignity and empathy to marginalized New Yorkers. Through its community public health interventions, AMPHS lends to the empowerment of individuals and communities to create their own local and culturally-sensitive health and wellness paradigms. www.amphsonline.org
This program is made possible by a grant from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund’s Arts & Mental Health program.