Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets
Artists: Louis Massiah, Scribe Video Center
Category: Video Installation/Oral History
Location: Uptown Theater (Viewing Area: sidewalk of 2231 North Broad Street)
Date & Time: Daily, 8:45-9:40PM - Thursday, July 24th to Sunday, July 27th
Scribe Video Center screens Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets, an outdoor video installation comprised of excerpts of oral history interviews of North Philadelphia residents and photos from the John W. Mosley Photograph Collection of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection and other archives.
Please join us for an opening night drill team performance on Thursday, July 24th at 8:15 PM.
On Friday through Sunday, the screening will begin at 8:45 PM.
Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Cultural Workers
Louis Massiah/Scribe Video Center
Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, He has developed production methodologies that assist first time makers author their own stories, including the Precious Places Community History project, a collection of 150 documentaries; Muslim Voices of Philadelphia; The Great Migration - A City Transformed and The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets..
Massiah’s documentaries, include The Bombing of Osage Avenue, W.E.B. Du Bois – ABiography in Four Voices, Cecil B. Moore, two films for the Eyes on the Prize II series, A is for Anarchist, B is for Brown and TCB – the Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing.