Washington Heights Memoir Project
Sun, Oct 13
|Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comu
The Washington Heights Memoir Project aims to provide a platform to immortalize the narratives of a community that is slowly losing its longstanding Dominican inhabitants due to gentrification.
Time & Location
Oct 13, 2019, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comu, 2113 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10032, USA
Details:
This Workshop series will include current and past residents of Washington Heights neighborhoods including youth with similar artistic pursuits in order to create an archive of our experiences living and or working in Washingtong Heights.
Requirements:
Particpants will be required to have resided in the neighborhood at least 2 years in order to contribute.
Participants will write their stories, polish their work & see it through the publishing stage in the form of an anthology.
Participants MUST attend at least 5 workshops in order to polish their work and be included in the anthology.