Saint Louis Story Stitchers youth artists created a Story Circle to share stories of the mental health crisis and solutions. Their guest was Dr. Julie J. Gary, PhD, MPH, Bureau Chief of Behavioral Health for the City of St. Louis Health Department.  This episode was recorded on June 28, 2024 at the Turkish pavilion, Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, Missouri. Part II.

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Wade Reprise

Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective, 2022

Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective, 2020

To learn more about mental health care in St. Louis or the Perception Isn’t Always Reality project, visit storystitchers.org 

These Special Edition episodes of StitchCast Studio are the result of a partnership with YouthBridge Community Foundation through its Think Big For Kids grant. Story Stitchers project, Perception Isn’t Always Reality, will create a public service announcement campaign as trusted messengers about mental health stigmas. 

Story Stitchers creative youth development programs are supported in part 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 programs is provided by the Regional Arts Commission, the City of St. Louis Office of Violence Prevention in partnership with the St. Louis Board of Aldermen through the 2024-2025 Programs to Reduce Crime Among At-Risk Youth, and Tegna Foundation. 

Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ studio, The Center, is supported in part by Kranzberg Arts Foundation, where Story Stitchers is a proud resident organization.

Saint Louis Story Stitchers youth artists created a Story Circle to share stories of the mental health crisis and solutions. Their guest was Dr. Julie J. Gary, PhD, MPH, Bureau Chief of Behavioral Health for the City of St. Louis Health Department.  This episode was recorded on June 28, 2024 at the Turkish pavilion, Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, Missouri.

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Prairie Therapy

Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective, 2020

To learn more about mental health care in St. Louis or the Perception Isn’t Always Reality project, visit storystitchers.org 

These Special Edition episodes of StitchCast Studio are the result of a partnership with YouthBridge Community Foundation through its Think Big For Kids grant. Story Stitchers project, Perception Isn’t Always Reality, will create a public service announcement campaign as trusted messengers about mental health stigmas. 

Story Stitchers creative youth development programs are supported in part 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 programs is provided by the Regional Arts Commission, the City of St. Louis Office of Violence Prevention in partnership with the St. Louis Board of Aldermen through the 2024-2025 Programs to Reduce Crime Among At-Risk Youth, and Tegna Foundation. 

Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ studio, The Center, is supported in part by Kranzberg Arts Foundation, where Story Stitchers is a proud resident organization.

Saint Louis Story Stitchers youth artists created a Story Circle to share stories of the mental health crisis and solutions. Their guest was Dr. Matifadza (Mati) Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Director of Health for the City of St. Louis. This episode (Parts I & II) was recorded on June 17, 2024 at Story Stitchers' Studio 1A, The Center, in the Grand Center Arts District, St. Louis, Missouri.

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Victor Not Victim

Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2024

To learn more about mental health care in St. Louis or the Perception Isn’t Always Reality project, visit storystitchers.org 

These Special Edition episodes of StitchCast Studio are the result of a partnership with YouthBridge Community Foundation through its Think Big For Kids grant. Story Stitchers project, Perception Isn’t Always Reality, will create a public service announcement campaign as trusted messengers about mental health stigmas. 

Story Stitchers creative youth development programs are supported in part 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 programs is provided by the Regional Arts Commission, the City of St. Louis Office of Violence Prevention in partnership with the St. Louis Board of Aldermen through the 2024-2025 Programs to Reduce Crime Among At-Risk Youth, and Tegna Foundation. 

Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ studio, The Center, is supported in part by Kranzberg Arts Foundation, where Story Stitchers is a proud resident organization.

Saint Louis Story Stitchers youth artists created a Story Circle to share stories of the mental health crisis and solutions. Their guest was Dr. Matifadza (Mati) Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Director of Health for the City of St. Louis. This episode was recorded on June 17, 2024 at Story Stitchers' Studio 1A, The Center, in the Grand Center Arts District, St. Louis, Missouri.

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Can You Tell?

Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2024

To learn more about mental health care in St. Louis or the Perception Isn’t Always Reality project, visit storystitchers.org

These Special Edition episodes of StitchCast Studio are the result of a partnership with YouthBridge Community Foundation through its Think Big For Kids grant. Story Stitchers project, Perception Isn’t Always Reality, will create a public service announcement campaign as trusted messengers about mental health stigmas. 

Story Stitchers creative youth development programs are supported in part 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 programs is provided by the Regional Arts Commission, the City of St. Louis Office of Violence Prevention in partnership with the St. Louis Board of Aldermen through the 2024-2025 Programs to Reduce Crime Among At-Risk Youth, and Tegna Foundation. 

Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ studio, The Center, is supported in part by Kranzberg Arts Foundation, where Story Stitchers is a proud resident organization.

Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective presents Peace in the Prairie, an original presentation exploring the concepts of peace and violence, juxtaposing urban life as experienced by African American people living in the city of St. Louis, Missouri and the state’s endangered prairie lands.

Is the path towards peace through Missouri’s native prairies?

Artists took a day trip from St. Louis, Missouri to explore a cave at Onondaga Cave State Park in Leasburg, MO and the natural beauty of the landscape on a rainy summer day on July 27, 2024.

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To The Prairie

KP Dennis, Integrity, Troy Anthony

Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2019

Watch a video about the trip!

https://vimeo.com/1023580162

Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Parks Association.

Story Stitchers creative youth development programs are supported in part 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 programs is provided by the Regional Arts Commission, the City of St. Louis Office of Violence Prevention in partnership with the St. Louis Board of Aldermen through the 2024-2025 Programs to Reduce Crime Among At-Risk Youth, and Tegna Foundation. 

Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ studio, The Center, is supported in part by Kranzberg Arts Foundation, where Story Stitchers is a proud resident organization.

In this episode, members of our StitchCast sit down and have a conversation about the difference between an artist's music and their persona. Recorded live at Story Stitchers Studio 1A, The Center, St. Louis, Missouri. 

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Saint Louis, Saint Louis

Traydon Rogers for Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2024

Story Stitchers creative youth development programs are supported in part 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 programs is provided by the City of St. Louis Youth at Risk Crime Prevention Grant of 2024, Regional Arts Commission, Trio Foundation of St. Louis, Ameren Equity in the Arts, Arts & Education Council, and Tegna Foundation. 

Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ studio, The Center, is supported in part by Kranzberg Arts Foundation, where Story Stitchers is a proud resident organization.

This episode was created on the day of the 10 year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, Jr, an unarmed Black teenager shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Story Stitchers held a Youth Empowerment Summit at the .ZACK Theatre and held a discussion with Branden Lewis and Emeara Burns and youth leaders about police and youth rights and responsibilities and community and personal trauma with guests Dr. Julie Gary, Behavioral Health Bureau Chief for the City of St. Louis, Officer Chassit Hickman, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, and Tamika Butler, MEd, LPC from BJC HeathCare. Recorded live August 9, 2024 at Story Stitchers’ Youth Empowerment Summit at the .ZACK Theatre in celebration of our 10 Year Anniversary.

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They Think It’s OK!

Taron Booker, Toryon Booker, KP Dennis

Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2017

On Saint Louis Story Stitchers 10 Year Anniversary Album, Keep On Marching On, released 2024

This episode is part of a series exploring youth and police rights and responsibilities, presented in four parts. In addition to Parts III and IV, check out Parts I and II, in which our StitchCast sits down with St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's Sergeant Stephen Perry, for a conversation about the relationship between the police and the community in this edition of StitchCast Studio LIVE! Recorded live at High Low in Saint Louis, Missouri on April 23, 2024.

This Special Edition of StitchCast Studio LIVE! is supported as a part of Saint Louis Story Stitchers 10 Year Anniversary Ken and Nancy Kranzberg, Carmon and Susan Colangelo, Jane Schaefer, In memory of Tom Schaefer, John and Harrison Hagan Heil,  In memory of Jamyla Bolden, and Ted and JoAnn Sanditz.

Additional support was provided by BJC HealthCare, Honda of Frontenac, Cities United, and  St. Louis American.

Story Stitchers creative youth development programs are supported in part 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 programs is provided by the Regional Arts Commission, the City of St. Louis Office of Violence Prevention in partnership with the St. Louis Board of Aldermen through the 2024-2025 Programs to Reduce Crime Among At-Risk Youth, and Tegna Foundation. 

Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ studio, The Center, is supported in part by Kranzberg Arts Foundation, where Story Stitchers is a proud resident organization.

This episode was created on the day of the 10 year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, Jr, an unarmed Black teenager shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Story Stitchers held a Youth Empowerment Summit at the .ZACK Theatre and held a discussion with Branden Lewis and Emeara Burns and youth leaders about police and youth rights and responsibilities and community and personal trauma with guests Dr. Julie Gary, Behavioral Health Bureau Chief for the City of St. Louis, Officer Chassit Hickman, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, and Tamika Butler, MEd, LPC from BJC HeathCare. Recorded live August 9, 2024 at Story Stitchers’ Youth Empowerment Summit at the .ZACK Theatre in celebration of our 10 Year Anniversary.

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Perception Isn't Always Reality

KP Dennis, 2016

On Saint Louis Story Stitchers 10 Year Anniversary Album, Keep On Marching On, released 2024

This episode is part of a series exploring youth and police rights and responsibilities, presented in four parts. In addition to Parts III and IV, check out Parts I and II, in which our StitchCast sits down with St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's Sergeant Stephen Perry, for a conversation about the relationship between the police and the community in this edition of StitchCast Studio LIVE! Recorded live at High Low in Saint Louis, Missouri on April 23, 2024.

This Special Edition of StitchCast Studio LIVE! is supported as a part of Saint Louis Story Stitchers 10 Year Anniversary Ken and Nancy Kranzberg, Carmon and Susan Colangelo, Jane Schaefer, In memory of Tom Schaefer, John and Harrison Hagan Heil,  In memory of Jamyla Bolden, and Ted and JoAnn Sanditz.

Additional support was provided by BJC HealthCare, Honda of Frontenac, Cities United, and  St. Louis American.

Story Stitchers creative youth development programs are supported in part 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 programs is provided by the Regional Arts Commission, the City of St. Louis Office of Violence Prevention in partnership with the St. Louis Board of Aldermen through the 2024-2025 Programs to Reduce Crime Among At-Risk Youth, and Tegna Foundation. 

Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ studio, The Center, is supported in part by Kranzberg Arts Foundation, where Story Stitchers is a proud resident organization.

Part II

In this episode, members of our StitchCast sit down and have a conversation about taking accountability.

Recorded live May 30, 2024 at The Center, St. Louis, Missouri. 

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Story Stitchers creative youth development programs are supported in part 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 programs is provided by the Regional Arts Commission, Trio Foundation of St. Louis, Ameren Equity in the Arts, Arts & Education Council, and Tegna Foundation. 

Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ studio, The Center, is supported in part by Kranzberg Arts Foundation, where Story Stitchers is a proud resident organization.

Part I

In this episode, members of our StitchCast sit down and have a conversation about taking accountability.

Recorded live May 30, 2024 at The Center, St. Louis, Missouri. 

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Victor Not Victim

Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2024.

Story Stitchers creative youth development programs are supported in part 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 programs is provided by the Regional Arts Commission, Trio Foundation of St. Louis, Ameren Equity in the Arts, Arts & Education Council, and Tegna Foundation. 

Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ studio, The Center, is supported in part by Kranzberg Arts Foundation, where Story Stitchers is a proud resident organization.