For families who have lost children to gun violence.
Thank you for inviting Cocoon to do a workshop in October.
Dr. Pastor Henry's Inner City Gun Violence Prevention Inc. is partnered with Lincoln Medical Center, Division of Trauma Injury Prevention Program and Guns Down Life Up.
With the incredible Cocoon team -- Jewels Marshall and Mirana Zuger -- after a great meeting with Dalaeja Foreman at BCA.
... and last week after the 1st COCOON workshop. COCOON team Mirana Zuger, Jewels Marshall, me and Alejandro Salgado.
Over 60 people in the Jackson, Melrose, Morrisania Air Rights Houses participated -- recording memories about life -- at Morrisania Air Rights and Jackson Houses Family Days, in the hallways of Jackson houses when you kindly opened your doors to us and told us your stories, and at cocoon workshops on Jackson's old basket ball court. Visit us Saturday for more workshops during Melrose Family Day - at the handball courts. And thank you thank you thank you.
Above Eric photographing Priscilla and Rodney during a cocoon memory workshop on Jackson's old basket ball court.
Danny Barber grilling ...
at Morrisania Air Rights Family Day where the COCOON had a table.
We talked with people about COCOON the artwork and people contributed to a memory map ... remembering talent shows at night in the old basketball court, going into labor, first grand kids, sadness over losing friends to gun violence, weddings and first jobs, first apartments and long time friendships and neighbors helping each other out.
TA President Chaney Yelverton ran the show, DA Darcel Clark and James Santos (DA Community Engagement Coordinator) visited and Danny Barber did the grilling. And yes there was music, dancing and a bouncy house.
COCOON will have a table Jackson Family Day -- Saturday tomorrow. Stop by. Add your memory to the neighborhood memory map.
People contributed memories at Morrisania Air Rights Family Day
Jewels Marshall (COCOON Field Organizer) with Alejandro Salgado (Translator) going door to door with me and Cynthia Marshall talking with people in Jackson houses about the COCOON artwork and stories of mass incarceration in the US.
