A Place for PURPLE: Revisiting the Community of San Juan Hill
We continue the journey and hear about the place where PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells was developed: the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which is also the neighborhood formerly known as San Juan Hill, and the community engagement process with the Lincoln Square Neighborhood center.
- More information on SLMD’s Community Engagement for PURPLE
- SLMD’s Community Engagement Curriculum
- Listen to the full EP: What Does PURPLE Sound Like
- Lincoln Center’s Legacies of San Juan Hill website
This episode features interviews with: Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley; SLMDances Creative Partners Brittany Grier and Candance Sumpter; and Community partners Jacqueline Wright and Marie Stephen. Additionally featuring excerpts from interview footage recorded in 1985 by New York City’s municipal broadcast television station, WNYC-TV, for Neighborhood Voices, a limited series on changing city neighborhoods, archived by the NYC Department of Records & Information Services.
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