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4/2/2013

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Spare A Dime's community stories create Gardens of Liberty.
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For over a year, COSACOSA youth, artists, and staff have collected stories of the Great Depression and our current "Great Recession" from community residents citywide.  These interviews created the taproot of Spare A Dime, defining the project's characters and anchoring the storyline through their powerful interplay of hope and hopelessness in times of crisis.

This summer, thanks to the support from the Knight Arts Challenge, the Kresge Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Union Benevolent Association, and other generous funders, these collected stories will also find a home in a new series of Site and Sound Gardens we're is creating with community members in North Philadelphia. Transforming abandoned lots into "sacred" spaces for our city neighborhoods, the new Gardens join COSACOSA's existing Healing Garden.  The Gardens will feature two- and three-dimensional visual art plus temporary sound art exhibitions, including stories, songs, and poetry by neighborhood residents.  Visit COSACOSA's website, www.cosacosa.org, for upcoming dates and times to volunteer to help create and maintain the Site and Sound Gardens.  You can also read about the Gardens and other community-building efforts in the recently published Philadelphia edition of US Airways magazine!

Best of all, hear our collected stories as part of Spare A Dime on April 18, 19, and 20, 2013! 
Get your tickets today!

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jordan 6 link
5/21/2013 04:55:25 pm

Support your work, and I hope you continue to update.

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