A Time Before Kale - Incite at Columbia University
A Time Before Kale
- Funding Program Assembling Voices
- Timeframe 2021–2022
- Location New York City, NY
- Assembling Voices Fellow Asha Boston
Asha Boston, a filmmaker and storyteller from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, has spent her career exploring and documenting the history of Black neighborhoods struggling to retain their culture and self-sufficiency amid gentrification through her film project, A Time Before Kale.
With support from Assembling Voices, she plans to expand on this work through a series of peer-to-peer storytelling workshops that teach residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant to digitally collect, preserve, and archive pictures, oral histories, and artifacts of their life in this neighborhood. By gathering residents in trusted spaces, the workshops also provide sites to coordinate resistance against rising rents, predatory development, and other threats to neighborhood stability.
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