Oakland belonging; the voices of swan’s market (a short documentary)

Students from across Oakland came together at Chapter 510 weekly for nine months to ask important questions:

How do we reflect past, present, and future stories into the built environment? How might this process enable placemaking, placekeeping and belonging?

Led by teaching artist and audio producer Elena Botkin-Levy, students used audio storytelling as a method of collecting and archiving stories about Swan’s Market, site of Chapter 510’s new writing center and much more. This film captures this powerful program from beginning to end.

Thanks to video producer/documentarian Miles Lassi and to the Kenneth Rainin Foundation for underwriting this film.