Our four curated storytellers, along with a room packed with community participants, came together on May 3 for a generative workshop to inspire and share true tales inspired by the Queens Name Explorer.
Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons created this free community workshop in partnership with Queens Memory and the Greater Astoria Historical Society.
Watch how the stories we started that day evolved into these emotionally-charged story swaps at our May 28 “My Place” show. Thank you to videographer Nick Capezzera for capturing our first collaboration with Queens Memory!
Participants put themselves on the map in the culminating Six-Word “My Place in Queens” Memoir activity at the workshop.
Audience members added their six-word memoirs to the map at the show.
What’s your six-word “My Place in Queens” memoir?
Highlights from the map below:
- Home, everywhere between JFK and LGA
- Found Queens from Brooklyn while walking
- Where the bodies meet the shore
- Left with belly, returned with baby
- World’s Boro. Coming out and home
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This project is supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Statewide Community Regrants Program (formerly the Decentralization program) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by Flushing Town Hall.
This organization is funded in part by the Howard Gilman Foundation administered by Flushing Town Hall.