Please join us for an enlightening panel of local Black storytellers who will share their experience of culture, identity and family in White Plains. Registration required.
Black White Plains storytellers panel (featuring Joe Mack, co-author of "Reflections of the Winbrook Years 1960 to 1975 White Plains, NY," Paul "Grasshoppa" Howe, a prolific White Plains video-documentarian, and Cheryl Bryant Harper, a White Plains native whose family history in this city spans about six generations) from 3pm-4:30pm.
This program is in conjunction to the art exhibit "You're From Where I'm From".
"You’re From Where I’m From" is a long-term photo documentary project that highlights the cultural legacy of six historically Black neighborhoods in White Plains. Nwana’s images are known for their “quiet urgency,” “safe intimacy,” and a “deep love and respect” for the people and places she documents.
In her own words: “I want my photos to tell stories that make us immovable and permanent. I want my photos to give us authority over how our names are spoken when we are no longer around to protect them. And I want my photos to safeguard our legacies so that future generations can look back and say with confidence: we were here.”
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Educational Presentations | Art Exhibit and Gallery Opening |
