Youth/Adult Community Dialogue About Violence Prevention and Medicine Wheel Productions Hand in Hand Exhibit
With an awe inspiring, artistic backdrop of Medicine Wheel Production’s Hand in Hand Exhibit and opening remarks from Boston Police Superintendent Randall J. Halstead – Night Commander, youth and adults will have an opportunity to share their views and have conversations with law enforcement officials about the problem of violence in the community and ways they can work together to prevent it. This event will take place on Tuesday March 28, 2017 from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. at the Boston Center for the Arts – Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116.
The South Boston Community Health Center Youth Ambassadors Program is hosting this event in collaboration with Area C-6 Police officials, Medicine Wheel Productions, the South Boston Boys & Girls Club Keystone teens, the Fourth Presbyterian Church teens, the SB Action Center’s Youth Council and many other youth serving, non-profit agencies. Prior dialogues between youth and caring adults have been successful in offering attendees a forum to talk and learn about resources to deal with issues of concern such as substance abuse and violence.
The Youth Ambassadors program is a youth development program for South Boston youth ages 12-18. They receive leadership trainings and work on projects in the areas of community service, the arts and health- including substance abuse and violence prevention.
The Hand in Hand Project, a new model of inclusion created by Medicine Wheel Productions, uses a cultural action to help people move from resistance to reconciliation by creating public art together. The work explores and challenges the capacity to humanize the “the other” in our lives. The result of this model is, hopefully, an understanding of our commonalities. Medicine Wheel Production’s focus has been on bringing police officers and young adults together in three hour workshops, where they meditate, reflect through writing, cast each other’s hands, share a meal, and have professional photographic portraits taken.
In addition to viewing the exhibit during the Youth/Adult Dialogue event on Tuesday March 28, Medicine Wheel Productions is pleased to welcome everyone to the Hand in Hand Exhibit at the Cyclorama @ the Boston Center for the Arts (539 Tremont St.) from March 27 – March 29th. This exhibit is free and open to the public from 10am to 7pm on March 27 – 28th and from 10am to 2 pm on the 29th.
If you would like more information about the Youth/Adult Dialogue event and the Hand in Hand Project please contact Mayra Rodriguez-Howard 617-464-7423 and Michael Dowling 617-268-6700.
