Here: Stories from Selinsgrove Center and KenCrest Services
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Helen and Ralph. Photo by JJ Tiziou, courtesy of the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University.
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Installation view of Here: Stories from Selinsgrove Center and KenCrest Services at Philadelphia City Hall. Photo by Amy Letson.
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Edith and Nicki take part in Lives Lived Apart, part of the programming around A Fierce Kind of Love. Courtesy of Temple University Institute on Disabilities.
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Installation view of Here: Stories from Selinsgrove Center and KenCrest Services at Philadelphia City Hall. Photo by Amy Letson.
A Fierce Kind of Love: Connecting Communities through Story and Dialogue, a multi-part project presented by the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University continues with an exhibition at Philadelphia City Hall. Here: Stories from Selinsgrove Center and KenCrest Services presents a series of photographs and audio interviews featuring 19 narrators with intellectual disabilities who live and work in Pennsylvania. Here highlights the rich humanity of people who often live and work apart from the community, while inviting audiences to look and listen differently.
An opening reception will be held on Friday, March 4, 5-7 p.m.
A Fierce Kind of Love is a year-long, multi-phase exploration of the stories—both large and intimate—of Pennsylvania's Intellectual Disability Rights Movement, and celebrates the struggle, activism and fierce love that fuels the desire for dignity. The project will culminate in a new play by theater artist Suli Holum and director David Bradley.