JOIN the Participants of The Zip Code Memory Project on December 5 at the Peace Fountain at St John the Divine for our first public gathering to acknowledge, mourn, and pay tribute to the losses of COVID 19.
When: December 5, 2021, 4pm-5pm
Where: Peace Fountain at Saint John the Divine, 111th Street/Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025
Combining the physical and the digital, our gathering will include candles, music, postcards and a healing community ritual.
We invite you to send, bring or make postcards at the event responding to one or two questions in writing, drawing, photography or other media:
1. What have we lost and learned from Covid? 2. How can we heal and grow together?
From Monday November 22nd until Friday December 3rd the ZCMP Public Events Team will be hosting a daily 1 hour postcard creating Zoom gathering at 6 pm EST. For this workshop bring at least 1 postcard size (5 x 7 inches) piece of paper and a pen/pencil. Colored pencils/markers, magazines, glue sticks are suggested but not necessary. Join us: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87017378781
On December 5, we will place the postcards and candles on the steps of the Cathedral. Postcard images will be projected on a screen and will be archived on The Zip Code Memory Project website. Candles and blank postcards will be available for free. If you address your postcard to someone, we will mail it for you.
Please send your materials to zipcodememoryproject@gmail.com.
The Zip Code Memory Project seeks to nd reparative ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on Upper New York City neighborhoods. Working across the zip codes of Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx, we are gathering with local community, arts and academic organizations to imagine how the losses of the pandemic can be acknowledged, mourned, and healed, and how the mutual aid, care and repair they have occasioned can be honored.
Questions or requests for further information, please contact:
zipcodememoryproject@gmail.com
And follow us on social media @zipcodememory