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<em>A Meditation on Memory: Visually Mapping Fairhill</em> is a socially-engaged public history and art place-making project funded by LISC in which a set of six new nontraditional set of historical markers will be made with community members and installed in the Fairhill neighborhood.

Using oral history and intimate dinner sharing's with Fairhill community members, public historian/artist Erin Bernard, and artist José Ortiz Pagán will collaborate to document and capture their stories in site-specific markers AND on a sculptural wall map to collate these memories.  The wall map will live in Taller Puertorriqueno's new building, El Corazon Cultural Center as a guide to the area.  All of Meditation's work and documentation throughout the year will inform the History Truck's comprehensive exhibition of the Fairhill neighborhood opening in June 2017 in the new building.

<em>A Meditation on Memory: Visually Mapping Fairhil</em>l connects people to their vibrant history and introduces visitors to the area. All voices and memories, young and old, matter.

Partnering with the History Truck is the Bobcats of Fairhill Elementary School (as organized through Pepon Osorio's reForm project), and Fairhill Apartments youth residents, Taller's Archives, and Taller's Youth Artist Program.

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