Special Curated Showing
and Discussion

Saturday October 30 - 5:00pm

Watch Live - Oct 30 @ 5pm

Community Voices is a collection of digital stories created by students in the Greater Philadelphia area. Each video was written and edited by the students, capturing their unique perspective of the world, themselves, and each other."  

This special curated showing of 10 stories will feature discussion with the student artists about their process and the topics they tackled with their stories.

​Featuring:

A Kid Who Helped A Kid: Magic Wise-Monroe
Imagining the Moon: Kavina Davis
PAIN: Janelle Turner
Zoo: Imani Ayala
A Future Lies in The Mind: Roshini Govindasamy ​

Never Talk Back to a God: Shannah Ali
SELF: Zivia Avelin
I Am: Marina Hildevert
Untitled: Sequoi Felix
​A Letter to My Mother: Carolyn Arnold

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Can't make it or want to investigate more?  Check out ALL of the Digital Stories created by our students below!

Archives & Advocacy

Community Voices is a digital storytelling initiative facilitated by Philadelphia Young Playwrights. Students shaped their experiences and insights from the last 14 months into stories and monologues. Utilizing drawings, animation, video, and photography, they applied digital elements to craft and tell their stories.

Watch all stories in one playlist, or scroll down to select any of 6 shorter blocks of stories!

FULL PLAYLIST

Block 1

PART 1
1) Untitled: Jocelyn Chiu (03 min. 04 sec) 
2) The Zoo: Imani Ayala (02 min. 23 sec)
3) If 2020 Had a Story: David Carter (01 min. 51) 
4) MOVING: Kenna Augustin (01 min. 25 sec) 
5) SELF: Zivia Allen  (05 min. 41 sec) *
*CW: Depression

PART 2
6) A Kid Who Helped A Kid: Magic Wise- Monroe (01 min. 39 sec) 
7) A Girl’s Perspective of Beauty: Iris Cheng (04 min. 01 sec)
8) Mike and The Demons: Kevin King (02 min. 51 sec) 
9) BREATHE: Rheva Wolf (03 min. 36 sec)*
​*CW: Depression

Block 2

PART 1
1) Tiana’s Quarantine Life: Tiana Albright-Woodman (02 min. 37 sec) 
2) A Future Lies in The Mind: Roshini Govindasamy (02 min. 16 sec) *
3) Cat Standing In Front of a Mirror: Christen Harvey (04 min. 24 sec) 
4) Imagining The Moon: Kavina Davis (04 min. 24 sec) 
*CW: depression, panic attacks, protest imagery and the phrase "I Can't Breathe".

PART 2
5) Caribbean Quiz!: Benjamin Lindo (02 min. 30 sec)
6) Back: Morgan McErlean (2 min. 49 sec) 
7) G.O.A.T: Rafiel Callado (01 min. 28 sec) 
 8) A Better Future 4 Philly: Tayona Allen (02 min. 16 sec) *
9) Never Talk back To A God: Shannah Alli (03 min. 32 sec) 
*CW: Black on Black Crime, Gun Violence

Block 3

PART 1
1) Untitled: Sequoi Felix (01 min. 02 sec)
2) What Now?: Aaiyah Smith (01 min. 27 sec) 
3) A Person Thinks While Eating a Banana in a Chair: Cecelia McKinney (04 min. 17 sec) *
4)  Dan The Robot: Mason Lauterbach (03 min. 54 sec)
*CW: Depression

​PART 2
5) Locked In: Grace Chang (02 min. 29 sec) 
6) I Am: Marina Hildevert (01 min. 24 sec)
7) PAIN: Janelle Turner (02 min. 0 sec)
8) The Adventures of Adria and Duke: Adria Goode (03 min. 39 sec) 
9) A Letter to my Mother: Carolyn Arnold (03 min. 13 sec) *
*CW: anger, global warming, uses the term Rap3