upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Gwynne B. Sigel
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2008 Art and Change Grant – $2,500
- Neighborhood: Mount Airy
- Change Partner: Philadelphia Dramatists Center
- Discipline: Literary Arts, Performance
- Social Change / Intent: Cultural Preservation
Gwynne will conduct interviews with members of the Sholom Aleichem Club, one of the last surviving organizations within Philadelphia's Jewish left community, for a multidisciplinary and multiyear project. Using oral histories, Gwynne will create an oral history-based solo theater performance. She will interweave the Club members’ personal stories with dramatizations of historical events that influenced the political context of these stories. The interviews and performances will provide the basis for a writing course she will create for youth, which will teach participants how to use oral history to document and perform stories of community and social change. Finally, Gwynne will write a book that documents the Club’s oral history, the solo-performance work, and the youth project.
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