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Stories of Atlantic City is a collaborative reporting project focused on telling restorative, untold stories about the city and its people.

01/06/2025

Join us at 2pm on Sunday, January 19th, for a new season of Artist-Activist meetups!
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We begin each season with a Forum meeting, where our members share with us and one another what they NEED from these gatherings. This helps us to plot a course for the season as a whole, directing our programming so that all members feel they are heard and integral to the direction of our sessions! You won't want to miss this one!
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RSVP for this meetup via the link in our bio, using the QR, or visiting our website and navigating to "Artist Meetups," where you'll see RSVP links to all upcoming meetups!
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We can't wait to see you!
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01/03/2025

What kind of rituals and regular practices empower YOU as an individual and a member of your community? Our community organizer Jacob shares some of the ways he finds grounding as an artist, an activist, and a friend.
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"Find here my story of autumn and winter, and, perhaps, too, find inspiration for your own individual and communal practices to help you embolden yourself, your art, and your community."
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“As we enter 2025 together, I ask you to consider how you may choose to radicalize yourself toward love, how you will become an extremist for the cause of justice."
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Find the new post in the link in our bio or by using the QR code in the image! Share your thoughts in the comments below! 💬
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12/13/2024

Join us TOMORROW, December 14th at 6pm for our final Artist-Activist Meetup of 2024!
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Our first two interdisciplinary art critiques have been magical. Let's keep up the momentum with one final critique of the season!!!!
PLEASE bring your art, bring a friend, bring an opinion, bring a smile! These kinds of feedback sessions are crucial for us to grow as artists together.
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RSVP for this meetup via the link in our bio, using the QR, or visiting our website and navigating to "Artist Meetups," where you'll see RSVP links to all upcoming meetups!
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We can't wait to see you!
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12/07/2024

⚡Attention AC movers and shakers!⚡
Check out our newest Artist-Activist blog entry, which tackles some safe and caring ways we can choose to engage eith the peer-reviewing process!
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“I think a lot about curating community, and I think a lot about the impossible-to-curate moments of unity that appear within curated spaces.”
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“Within each space that I participate, I find familiar faces, I find new faces, and I find myself.”
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“Turning to a new year rife with hard questions and grand fears, a brief note:
Community will always exist around you. Community will always exist within you. Anything I can do, you can do better. I write these entries as a guide in case you need it, but I trust you. I believe in you. And I believe that we will all find, in this darkest moment, the fire within us necessary to keep each other warm.”
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Find the new post in the link in our bio or by using the QR code in the image! Share your thoughts in the comments below! 💬
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11/04/2024

Join us the evenings of Friday, November 15th, and Saturday, December 14th (info on the second slide!) for our final two Artist-Activist Meetups of 2024!
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Our first interdisciplinary art critique was magical, and we can't wait to dedicate our next two gatherings to more of that sort of workshopping space!!! PLEASE bring your art, bring a friend, bring an opinion, bring a smile! These kinds of feedback sessions are crucial for us to grow as artists together.
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RSVP for this meetup via the link in our bio, using the QR, or visiting our website and navigating to "Artist Meetups," where you'll see RSVP links to all upcoming meetups!
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We can't wait to see you!
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11/01/2024

⚡Attention AC movers and shakers!⚡
Check out our newest Artist-Activist blog entry!
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"When art acts as a commodity, it does not need us. It’s borne of capitalism and thrives on competition and hoarding and the soothing, numbing hypnosis of spectacle. To survive here, we need it.... When art acts as a community’s voice, it does need us: it becomes us."
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"[I]f our art is always self-portraiture—and I believe that it is—then we should feel allowed to give it some love! Why does the internal judge always get to have all the fun? It’s time we humor ourselves a little bit! We can feel special and we can feel that our art is special. This life is a hard one. For many of us, it is an all-consuming passion. It is okay to pause every once in a while, ground ourselves, breathe, and reflect on the beauty we create."
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Find the new post in the link in our bio or by using the QR code in the image! Share your thoughts in the comments below! 💬
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10/25/2024

As our arts-based programming evolves, so should its name and logo!
🌟Introducing the SOAC Artist-Activist Meetups!🌟
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2024 has been an INCREDIBLE year for our meetups.
• In January, you helped us to create the blog as a sibling project to our in-person meetups, expanding access exponentially!
• By springtime, you were eager to use our gatherings to develop a celebratory event in the city, showcasing the incredible talent and curiosity of our city's artists. From there we picked up momentum all the way to our July Celebration of Expression event at . And what a success that was!!!
• After the celebration, we needed to turn inward, to decide together how these meetups would develop. In October, we held our first Interdisciplinary Art Critique, and now we've decided we'll finish out 2024 with two more! Friday, November 15th and Saturday, December 14th. Mark the dates!
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📣Here's the pitch: Holistic, safe critique space is the foundation of a healthy art community—indeed, it is crucial to the civic ecosystem as a whole that artist-activists, the vox populi, are given the space and unity to allow their critical thought to flourish.📣
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We hope you'll find some time to check out our updated/updating meetups! And even if you can't make them, we hope you'll at the very least reach out and say hi or share your ideas for improved gatherings! Feel free to DM us here or email Jacob at [email protected] any time!
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Deeper information about the history of the meetups and RSVP links for upcoming meetings can be found on our website (in the Artist Meetups tab) and through the QR code! See you soon—and thanks for everything.
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10/19/2024

Exciting news!!! We're continuing our critique-centered gatherings for the rest of 2024!
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Our first critique session was incredible. To expand coverage to our broader membership, we will host a critique session on a Friday evening in November and a Saturday evening in December. Mark these dates!
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RSVP links can be found in our bio, on our website (in the Artist Meetups tab), or through the QR code! We can't wait for the next one!!!
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10/14/2024

⚡Attention artists and community members!⚡
We think you're going to LOVE our new resource!
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Across our current 9 blog entries, we cite 31 different resources. We know that will only grow exponentially as the meetups continue. This Annotated Bibliography acts as a curated list of our resources, each explained and contextualized, to help act as a map to guide your artist-activist inquiry.
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Swipe to see an example of the new page. We can't wait to hear what you think!
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Find the Annotated Bibliography in the "Arts & Culture" tab on our website or by using the QR code in the image!

10/14/2024

Join Stockton University for a multi-event celebration to honor Indigenous People’s Day! This is held in conjunction with the university’s current Art Gallery exhibition, “Indigenous Approaches, Sustainable Futures,” sponsored by the School of Arts & Humanities. The exhibit highlights more than 25 international and local Indigenous artists exploring the relationship between land, identity and sustainability.

The schedule of events includes Reading & Recognition of Place, a Lenapehoking Indigenous Youth Group performance, a documentary and panel talk on the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, and In Conversation: Indigenous Life & Culture.

10/12/2024

⚡Attention artists and community members!⚡
Check out the newest Artist Meetup blog entry!
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“This month, as a continuation of our first cycle of Arts and Ethics programming, members from our community gathered to prepare the ‘rules of the road’ for how our artist meetups would conduct interdisciplinary critiques.”
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Swipe to see the community agreements our artists came up with!
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Find the new post in the link in our bio or by using the QR code in the image! Share your thoughts in the comments below! 💬

10/09/2024

Join us on Thursday October 17th for our next Artist Meetup!
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During our August and September Meetups, our dedicated members worked tirelessly to establish the beginnings of our "rules of the road" for creating a safe, trusting critique space.
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(Jacob here: I'm a bit behind on publishing last month's blog entry, but expect to see it, and all of our community members' "rules," within the next week!)
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Please RSVP for this meetup via the link in our bio, using the QR, or visiting our website and navigating to "Artist Meetups," where you'll see RSVP links to all upcoming meetups!
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We can't wait to see you!
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09/06/2024

Join us on Thursday September 19th for our next Artist Meetup!
Those with keen memories may notice that we've jumped directly from "Forum" meeting to "Trading Post."
This is because we are trying something new. Our cycle will now be Forum>Trading Post>Workshop.
We'll explain more during the next meetup! But for now, here's what we ask of you:
• Please consider bringing any objects/tools/resources/materials/information that you'd like to share with a community member. The Trading Posts are a space where we can altruistically trade or give material to better the health of our community.
A portion of our meetup will also be dedicated to devising community agreements, a set of rules that will help us to feel heard, seen, and recognized when in our workshop session in October.
Please RSVP for this meetup via the link in our bio, using the QR, or visiting our website and navigating to "Artist Meetups," where you'll see RSVP links to all upcoming meetups.

Can't wait to see you!

09/04/2024

⚡Attention artists and community members!⚡
Check out the newest Artist Meetup blog entry!
In this entry, describes some aspects of his relationship between art-making and activism.
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"The formalization of a medium does not require the consolidation of power."
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"Each day I seek new ways to allow my fingers' smudges to interplay with the worlds reflected in my mirror."
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"Subversion makes a radical idea palatable."
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Find the new post in the link in our bio or by using the QR code in the image! Share your thoughts in the comments below! 💬

08/30/2024

Our last interview was with Ms. Tawane Corbin! 🤩

As a long-term substitute teacher, she was able to shed light on what it’s like to work with those who taught you. Our teen reporter Aryiane also enjoyed hearing more about her life in Atlantic City, and how the city has changed for Ms. Corbin.

Thank you to Ms. Corbin for spending the day with us! 🥳

Swipe ➡️ to scan the QR Code to her interview or click the link in our linktree (in our bio)!

08/28/2024

Three of our teen reporters got to speak woth Alexxus Young for their camp project! 🥳

They all expressed how insightful Alexxus was, and appreciated how open she was. They also appreciated her kindness, and learned to always shoot for the stars!

Thank you to Alexxus for spending the day with us! 🤩

08/24/2024

This year, two of our teen reporters Aleah and Alysa White got to interview reporter Selena Vazquez. 🤩

With a deep connection to AC and over 900 articles to her name, Selena inspired the girls to shoot for the stars and to never let their mistakes define them.

Thank you to Selena for spending the morning with us! 🥳

Read more by scanning the QR code or clicking the link in our link tree(in our bio)!

08/23/2024

Time to check out what our teen reporters worked on! 🤩

Mykaal and Derek interviewed B.A. Anthony Swan for their camp project. They enjoyed learning more about his professional background, and life.

Thank you to B.A. Swan for spending the day with us! 🥳

Check out Mykaal and Derek’s interview by scanning the QR code or clicking the link in our bio!

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2024 is coming to a close! Here’s everything SOAC has done this year 🤩 From community service to celebrations, we’ve grown our community and deepened our relationships! We can’t wait for next year! See you in 2025! 🥳 #storiesofatlanticcity #atlanticcity #stockton #2024recap #foryoupage #reels #local #community

Atlantic City Youth Services is with Stories of Atlantic City and friends!

On July 18th, 2024, Stories of Atlantic City honored our first year of Artist Meetups by hosting the Celebration of Expression at @artsgarageac! 🎆 Dreamed up by our community members, this event showcased visual artists, vendors, and performing artists of all kinds—all of them local! ✨ Thanks to @stocktonuniversity Production Services for putting this together. And a huge round of applause for @tanyafields83's gorgeous musicianship!!! Thanks for serenading us, Tanya!! ❓ Where you there? Have a favorite memory from the day?? Share it with us in the comments!! #️⃣ #storiesofatlanticcity #atlanticcity #artsandculture #local #artistmeetup #soaccelebrationofexpression #art #livemusic