Prelude to Peace in the Prairie 2022

Britny Cordera, event manager for Peace in the Prairie 2022, and Branden Lewis, Story Stitchers Youth Program Coordinator, discuss plans for Peace in the Prairie at the World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park on Earth Day 2022! The event which is free and open to the public will include vendors, presentations, performances and an original film. Peace in the Prairie is an original multimedia presentation exploring the concepts of peace and violence, juxtaposing urban life as experienced by black youth living in the city of St. Louis, Missouri with the state's unique endangered prairie lands.   Friday, April 22, 2022 Earth Day! 10:00 AM-9:30 PM World’s Fair Pavilion, Forest Park 1904 Concourse Drive, St. Louis, MO 63110   Peace in the Prairie is presented with support from Missouri Arts Council, a State Agency, which receives support from the State of Missouri. Story Stitchers is supported by The Lewis Prize for Music’s 2021 Accelerator Award. The mission of The Lewis Prize is to partner with leaders who create positive change by investing in young people through music. Additional support for Saint Louis Story Stitchers is provided by the Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund, City of St. Louis Youth at Risk Crime Prevention grant of 2021, March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance, Edward Jones Community and Philanthropic Giving, and Kranzberg Arts Foundation.   Community Partners St. Louis Public Libraries, Cabanne Branch Audubon Center at Riverlands Alive and Well Crime Victims Center Missouri Prairie Foundation Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America Power4STL aka The T with Punch Love! Missouri Department of Conservation Flora Conservancy of Forest Park Perennial Sierra Club, Missouri Chapter Creative Reaction Lab Women's Voices Raised For Social Justice Yoga and Mindfulness with Michelle Fleming Understanding Trauma with Alive and Well Story Circle with Master Storyteller Bobby Norfolk Birds in Missouri Prairies with Audubon Center at Riverlands Who's Ready? Music Video Cameos with Troy Anthony   Performances  Ars Poetica - Spontaneous poetry CommUNITY Arts Pop UP performances MoSTLy Tap Big Plate Dance + CS Academy CS Academy Landscapes Loukidz Story Stitchers Pop UP Krump Dance to Bug and Bird Beatz   MAIN EVENT 7:00 Peace in the Prairie Saint Louis Story Stitchers Performance Film Screening    Pick the City UP Art Interlude To The Prairie, Ntegrity, KP Dennis, and Troy Anthony, Saint Louis Story Stitchers, 2018 Saint Louis Story Stitchers is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. On the web at arts dot gov. Story Stitchers is supported by The Lewis Prize for Music’s 2021 Accelerator Award. The mission of The Lewis Prize is to partner with leaders who create positive change by investing in young people through music.  Additional support for StitchCast Studio and Story Stitchers youth programs was provided by the Spirit of St. Louis Women’s Fund, City of St. Louis Youth at Risk Crime Prevention grant of 2021, Lush Corporation’s The Charity Pot, and March For Our Lives Aid & Alliance.