Listen "An Oasis in the City"
Episode Synopsis
Today, we go to the East Village neighbourhood of New York City, where girls from the Lower East Side Girls Club interviewed JK Canepa, an activist who participated in the struggle in the late 90s to preserve the community gardens from destruction. And Beverly Love, a local resident, who was part of the creative movement that first gave birth to the gardens. We produced this episode with a 10-session podcast workshop with ten-year-old girls at the Center for Wellbeing & Happiness and The Lower Eastside Girls Club of NY in the fall of 2023. During these workshops, the girls honed their podcasting skills and delved into a creative process to produce their own episode by interviewing two elders from the East Village who played pivotal roles in the late 90s struggle to preserve the neighborhood gardens from destruction. These workshops resulted in a fascinating intersection of art and activism podcast episode.
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