StitchCast Studio

Gun Violence Epidemic Part I

Disclaimer: The views, opinions and thoughts expressed here are those of the individuals and do not necessarily represent the views or mission of St. Louis Story Stitchers.

In this week’s StitchCast our panel sits down and talks about gun violence, gun ownership, and the traumas associated with it, with Retired St. Louis Police Captain Perry Johnson.

Recorded live at Central Stage in St. Louis, Missouri on April 29, 2022.

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Not Another One!

Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2016  

Not Another One! A Play For Peace book is now available on Amazon under Saint Louis Story Stitchers. Album will be released July 4, 2022. The book and album contain all of the tools needed to stage the play Not Another One! A Play For Peace.

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.

StitchCast Studio SPECIAL EDITION: Perception Isn’t Always Reality: Part III

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.

How has Covid-19 and the vaccine affected you and your family and friends?

Dr. Kanika Cunningham, Family Medicine, Family Care Health Center, answers questions from youth leaders and the public for this live recording at the Cabanne Branch Library, St. Louis Public Library, April 4, 2022.

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The Why and The Way

KP Dennis for Saint Louis Story Stitchers' The WHY of MY City, 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.

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.

BlueBeatz, youth leaders, and guests are live in Forest Park at the World’s Fair Pavilion for Earth Day at Peace in the Prairie. Recorded live on April 22, 2022.

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Dear Saints of Louis

Traydon Rogers, 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.

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.

Ntegrity, youth leaders and guests live in Forest Park at the World’s Fair Pavilion for Earth Day at Peace in the Prairie. Recorded live on April 22, 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.

Parenting

In this week’s StitchCast our panel sits down and imagines life as a parent. What would it be like to raise a child in today’s complicated world? BlueBeatz, father of two, joins in on the discussion.

Recorded in Zoom  on February 24, 2022.

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Different I by Emeara Burns

Different II Branden Lewis

Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2016 and 2017

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.

Youth leaders have a conversation about art and social media. Recorded in Zoom in St. Louis, Missouri on March 25, 2022.

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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.

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.

Youth leaders discuss misconceptions about gender and  navigating the age old traditions of gender roles in contemporary life. Recorded in Zoom in St. Louis, Missouri on March 24, 2022.

StitchCast Studio Special Edition: Podcasts in the Park VIII

Bobby Norfolk

Recorded live at Shaw Nature Reserve, Missouri Botanical Gardens,  September 19, 2021                                                                                                                                                  

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To The Prairie

KP Dennis and Ntegrity with Troy Anthony on bass, Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2018

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?

Join the Story Stitchers Friday, April 22, 2022 from 10:00 AM-9:30 PM on Earth Day! at the World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park, St. Louis.

Main Event at 7:00 PM, Story Stitchers performance and film screening of Peace in the Prairie under the stars!

The event is free and open to the public. All ages are welcome.

Peace in the Prairie is presented with support from Missouri Arts Council, a State Agency, which receives support from the State of Missouri.

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 Saint Louis Story Stitchers is provided by the Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund, a City of St. Louis Youth at Risk Crime Prevention grant of 2021, March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance, Edward Jones Community and Philanthropic Giving, and Kranzberg Arts Foundation.

Britny Cordera, event manager for Peace in the Prairie 2022, and Branden Lewis, Story Stitchers Youth Program Coordinator, discuss plans for Peace in the Prairie at the World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park on Earth Day 2022!

The event which is free and open to the public will include vendors, presentations, performances and an original film. Peace in the Prairie is an original multimedia presentation exploring the concepts of peace and violence, juxtaposing urban life as experienced by black youth living in the city of St. Louis, Missouri with the state's unique endangered prairie lands.

Friday, April 22, 2022

Earth Day!

10:00 AM-9:30 PM

World’s Fair Pavilion, Forest Park

1904 Concourse Drive, St. Louis, MO 63110

Peace in the Prairie is presented with support from Missouri Arts Council, a State Agency, which receives support from the State of Missouri.

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 Saint Louis Story Stitchers is provided by the Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund, City of St. Louis Youth at Risk Crime Prevention grant of 2021, March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance, Edward Jones Community and Philanthropic Giving, and Kranzberg Arts Foundation.

Community Partners

St. Louis Public Libraries, Cabanne Branch

Audubon Center at Riverlands

Alive and Well

Crime Victims Center

Missouri Prairie Foundation

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America

Power4STL aka The T with Punch Love!

Missouri Department of Conservation

Flora Conservancy of Forest Park

Perennial

Sierra Club, Missouri Chapter

Creative Reaction Lab

Women's Voices Raised For Social Justice

Yoga and Mindfulness with Michelle Fleming

Understanding Trauma with Alive and Well

Story Circle with Master Storyteller Bobby Norfolk

Birds in Missouri Prairies with Audubon Center at Riverlands

Who's Ready? Music Video Cameos with Troy Anthony

Performances

 Ars Poetica - Spontaneous poetry

CommUNITY Arts Pop UP performances

MoSTLy Tap

Big Plate Dance + CS Academy

CS Academy Landscapes

Loukidz

Story Stitchers Pop UP Krump Dance to Bug and Bird Beatz

MAIN EVENT

7:00

Peace in the Prairie

Saint Louis Story Stitchers Performance

Film Screening 

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To The Prairie, Ntegrity, KP Dennis, and Troy Anthony, 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.

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.

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.