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Neighborhood Power is a truly unique blend of participatory storytelling, featuring the stories and voices of Adams Morgan activists and community leaders past and present who have collaborated to produce this work with a diverse team of filmmakers and creatives who all have ties to the neighborhood.

It features a large-scale public art installation (400 ft long by 6 ft high) wrapping a fence along the central walkway in Walter Pierce Park, which is itself a key site of neighborhood history.

The fence wrap invites viewers to learn about the history and legacy of activism and organizing in the Adams Morgan neighborhood through archival photos and documents, text, poetry composed by a local activist poet, and interactive QR codes with audio recordings that can be accessed through a smartphone.

The piece also invites neighbors and visitors to share their own reflections, stories and memories of the neighborhood and the fight for social justice here through a web link where they can record their own voice to share with the project. The visual and multimedia installation also provides background and informs the short documentary, which we are screening in preview form at several events throughout the month of September 2023.