Growing Up in Coney Island: A Reading and Performance

TheConey Island History Project, founded in 2004, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit  organization that aims to increase awareness of Coney Island's legendary and colorful past and to encourage appreciation of the Coney Island neighborhood of today. Our mission is to record, archive and shareoral history interviews; provide access to historical artifacts and documentary material througheducational exhibits, apodcast, events and awebsite; and honor community leaders and amusement pioneers through ourConey Island Hall of Fame.Emphasizing community involvement, the History Project teaches young people about local history and develops programs in conjunction with local schools, senior centers, museums and other organizations.Follow us onFacebook,Twitter,InstagramandFlickr!

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Memoir, music, and poetry about growing up in Coney Island by narrators whose oral histories are featured Coney Island Stories podcast

Growing Up in Coney Island

We're excited to be wrapping up Season Two of Coney Island Stories with a conversation and a performance via Zoom about “Growing Up in Coney Island” through the decades!

You're invited to join the <a href="https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Coney Island History Project</a> in November for two special events. We're excited to be wrapping up Season Two of <a href="https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/podcast" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Coney Island Stories</a> with a conversation and a performance about “Growing Up in Coney Island” through the decades, the theme of this year’s podcast. The dates for these two Zoom webinars are November 10 and November 17, successive Thursdays, from 7-8pm.The online event on November 10 will be a conversation about growing up in Coney Island with the hosts and some of the narrators whose oral histories are featured in the podcast series. November 17 will be a reading and performance of their own work by narrators who are writers, poets, musicians, and actors. In addition, some narrators will read passages from historical memoirs about growing up in Coney Island.The online events are hosted by Charles Denson and Tricia Vita, who co-produce the podcast with independent audio producer Ali Lemer. Charles Denson is executive director of the Coney Island History Project and the author of Coney Island: Lost and Found, named 2002 New York Book of the Year by the New York Society Library. He grew up in Coney Island and began documenting his neighborhood as a boy, a passion that continues to this day. Tricia Vita has a certificate in reminiscence and life story work and creates reminiscence events and records oral histories for the Coney Island History Project.Tickets for the November 10 and 17 events are free of charge. Advance registration is required for each webinar. You will be sent the Zoom link two days before the event.This program is sponsored in part by an Action Grant from Humanities New York with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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