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The Community Storytelling Project "A Call for Justice" is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of The Community Storytelling Project "A Call for Justice" must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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About The CSCProject's "A Call for Justice"
Over the past nine months The CSCProject has collected 29 personal narratives via audio that reflect on the systemic injustices within the United States. The narratives, while currently in an oral archive on The CSCProject's website, have been edited down to create a 20-minute soundtrack from the various sound-bytes of each of the stories, becoming a collage of narratives overlapped onto an original sound-score, transforming into a soundscape for a physical performance piece. 

In addition to the Oral History Soundscape , we also created a 44-page Zine with the collaboration of 19 artist's and poet's work that reflects, provides commentary, and/or shares personal experiences in relation to racism, inequality, systemic injustice, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. In acknowledgement that everyone receives, learns, and digests information and emotion differently, throughout our performance we will be distributing our Zine to audience members and pedestrians. The CSCProject believes the visual and physical medium of a Zine will provide an additional access point to the dialogue, as well as diffuses the stereotypical relationship between spectator and performer. This gives people agency around the matters being discussed, as something will literally "be in their hands''.

When and Where
The full piece will first be performed in NYC on Oct. 9th, 2021 by a collection of dancers and performance artists. We will documenting the performance via multiple video angles to host ongoing installations of the projects at various educational institutions throughout the year.

Where your support goes
Simple explanation: Your money goes toward an initiative to amplify BIPOC stories and experiences through the lens of performance.

Longer explanation: The project began in June 2020. Since that time we have collaborated with 29 storytellers, 19 artists, a Brooklyn publishing company, the online Instagram page @nycprotestthruart, a NYC-based audio engineer, 4 directors, and 1 videographer, all of which have not yet been compensated for their time, energy and gifts. We will also need funding for the 12 NY dancers and performance artists as well as the 200 printed copies of our Zine we plan to distribute. 

The Bigger Picture
Racism, systemic injustice, inequality did not just happen overnight and it takes everyone to reverse the damage that we have all been both voluntarily and involuntary complicit to over the years.

We have acknowledged that it takes years for legislation to make changes, and even with that, it does not mean that legislative changes are supporting the psychological changes needed amongst our community. We believe we need to take that as our responsibility as a culture, to provoke one another to show up more, to do better, and listen to each other’s full humanity. In short, to become better humans. We can’t do the work alone, we need the support of each other. With this project, along with our Campaign, we are inviting folx to help us do just that.

The CSCProject is forever grateful of all contributors, donors, and grassroots efforts in assisting in this project coming into fruition.
Listen to the "Call for Justice" soundscape here: https://soundcloud.com/user-249893975/a-call-for-justice .

Our Team:
Directors: Audrey Aakins, Tamelan Chauvet, Meg Jala
Creative Consultant: Miguel Angel Guzman
CSCProject Curator: Kayleigh Stack
Dancers: Elenora Ramsey Nora, ZayP, Jamison Curcio, Leila Mire, Nicholas Rodrigues, Skye Pickering, Kristina Bermudez, Ikram Bendjillali, Kanami Kusajima, Sakinah Bennett, America, Deborah Black
Audio Engineer: Mario Schöning
Intern: Seth Langer
Zine Designer: Michael Haley

Storytellers: Zion Long, Chisomo Selemani, Kiran Sirah, Robert Pluma, Roderick Long, Devon Antoine, Audrey Aakins, Willie J. Smith, Michael Haley, Joe Mclaughlin, Deollo Johnson, Earl Legister Jr, Kynala Phillips,Tamelan N. Chauvet, Heidi Lajos, Jayson Miller, Carl Straut-Collard, Timothy Westbrook, Jazmine N Russell, Jason Lord, Marisa j. Mcclinton, Tinika Cudjoe, Inno C.P., Annetta, Ikram Bendjillali, Kanon Sugino, Selah Williams, Jayson (J.D.), Peacock. Lissette Soto

Zine artists: Angela Larsen, Marina P-W & Elaine C. Chu, Vince Ballentine, Raul Martinez, Jarrett Robertson, Irena Kenny, Deb Fong, Dante Violette, Pancho Pescador, Eric & Theresa (Menaceresa), Bay Area Mural Program, Steven John Irby, Sharon Virtue, Marco Santini, Lawrence Lopez, Emma ismawi, Lisette Soto, Carl Straut-Collard, Micahel Haley, Emma Johnson

Videographer for GoFundMe: Chase Bauer 


“If you want to go slow, do it alone, if you want to go fast do it together”- African proverb 

Let us do this together. Not tomorrow or during a more convenient time, but now and today, because it's time that we build a better, stronger and more honest community with and among one another. 

Help us make a movement toward a better world, through the sharing of stories, one performance at a time.

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The CSCProject collects and shares stories through a variety of innovative, multimedia methods. Whether it's through audio, text, video, or live performance we are always finding ways to share poignant personal accounts of narratives generally hidden or not heard in traditional publications and media. We work in a co-operative model to bring oral histories into accessible, sensory-based experiences. We collaborate with dozens of people, artists and creators over the course of our projects and always hoping to collaborate with brands in creating multi-year partnerships that keep our projects alive!

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