Student Work travels to NY Methodist Hospital

Selections from the Urban Memory Project's exhibition Lost in Transition, will be on display at the NY Methodist Hospital from April 28 - May 5, 2008 in the Hospital's Milner Pavillion. A reception for the public will be held on Monday May 5, 2008 at 4:30pm. The NY Methodist Hospital Milner Pavillion is located on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Sixth Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn

Student Photos

These are student photos from the past two years of the Urban Memory Project. Some of these are currently on display at the Brooklyn Historical Society through April 27th.

Urban Memory Project joins Youth Intiative

The Urban Memory Project (UMP) has been invited to participate in a Youth Initiative conference in April, 2008. Youth from across the country will convene in NYC to discuss issues of urban planning and the future of cities. Urban Memory Project students from across Brooklyn will give voice to their ideas and opinions in a forum at the Brooklyn Historical Society, in conjunction with the UMP exhibition Lost in Transition. Issues discussed will include: Does gentrification harm or help neighborhoods. What is really the greater good for NYC? And, what, if anything, should be preserved, and how should it be preserved?

Feb. 2, 2008: Lost in Transition Curator Walk-through

Ain Gordon and Rebecca Krucoff will host a curator walk-through and discussion about their current exhibition Lost in Transition at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Joining them will be teachers and students from several Urban Memory Project schools as well as photographer and author Vincent Cianni. For more information, contact the Brooklyn Historical Society: www.brooklynhistory.org

Urban Memory Project is expanding to Queens

In Spring 2008 the Urban Memory Project will be working in Queens with the Frank Sinatra High School.

2008 Urban Memory Exhibit

In January of 2008, the Brooklyn Historical Society will be exhibiting student work from the Urban Memory Project in an exhibition entitled:

"Lost in Transition: South Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Coney Island" to run through April 2008.

We are in 6 NYC schools for the 2007-2008 school year

In the coming school year of 2007-2008, the Urban Memory Project is being implemented in six schools: five in Brooklyn and one in Queens. The Queens school marks the beginning of a new theater piece work-in-progress by Ain Gordon, in collaboration with the Queens Theater in the Park and Pick Up Performance Co.

2007-08 schools include:

• The Secondary School for Research (Brooklyn)
• The Brooklyn School for Global Studies (Brooklyn)
• The School for International Studies (Brooklyn)
• Williamsburg Preparatory (Brooklyn)
• Young Writers Academy (Brooklyn)
  
• Frank Sinatra HS in Queens (likely)