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After great success in using memoir allowing readers experience the Bronx through the eyes of the people who call it home instead of the media depiction a second volume was created. The memoir was published in the Fall of 2017 and has returning voices but feature a lot of new writers who seek to
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In March 2014, The Bronx Council on the Arts held writing workshops throughout the borough with the goal of capturing the great diversity of the Bronx. The workshops brought Bronx residents together from all walk of life but was focused on:
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and brought forth through a series of workshops meant to empower Bronx residents and shed the stigma on the Bronx's burning past.
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The Bronx Memoir Project was created as an ongoing collaboration between The Bronx Council on the Arts and other
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showcase the Bronx as their home, instead of the media depiction of: The Bronx is Burning.
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Published in November 2014 by BCA Media and edited by Bronx Writer Center Director,
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Eighties Bronx as Seen Through the Eyes of an Eight-Year-Old
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My Dad was a Teamster Man, Not a Social Worker ... and Yet
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writing, and allowed them to use it as a tool to capture
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The participants in the workshops had some of their
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The Bronx Council on the Arts
published
anthology
Bronx Council on the Arts
cultural institutions
Documentary
Bronx Library Center
Edgar Allan Poe Park Visitor Center
National Endowment for the Arts
Bronx
youth
seniors
families
Charlie Vazquez
memoir
the Bronx
the Bronx's
memoir
anthology
Charlie Vazquez
Nahshon Dion Anderson
Bronx Recognizes Its own
Bronx Recognizes Its own




"A trio of Bronx tomes tell the tales of the borough"

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