Tales from the Porch Art Container Tour

225 Glenwood Avenue,Buffalo NY 14208

24 September, 2022

Description

Meet up with Aitina Fareed-Cooke, Owner & Creative Director of Get Fokus'd Productions, for a chat and tour of our Tales from the Porch Art Container filled with student photography and community porch stories. Learn about 7 community leaders from the Eastside of Buffalo and how they, along with the community, are "Overcoming Evil with Good." GFP desires to amplify the stories of black leaders and organizations that are doing good work despite the pandemic and the Buffalo tragedy of May 14. GFP will provide high-quality production to capture community leaders who are diligently doing the work necessary to help overcome evil with good. This work, when displayed to the public, will ignite thought, expand perspectives, and encourage the community to persevere." We all have our porches. Our platforms from which we share our stories. Our lives. From these porches, we learn perspectives. We learn of the varying commonalities and complexities that exist, human to human,” said Fareed-Cooke. “As we exchange these tales, we share our hopes, fears, and dreams. Together we discover the beautiful weight of reality which is that we are all human. Different, yet the same."