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from 4-23 TD

by Community News Service

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rials from different cultures around the world, emphasizing their cultures and where they come from.

Trenton Puerto Rican Community & Friends: Host events which bridge the Puerto Rican experience from La Isla to the streets of the Old Trenton Neighborhood where many of the first families who arrived from Puerto Rico built a home and a family.

Trenton City Girlz: Launch a Girl Scouts troop empower and encourage youth within the Old Trenton Neighborhood.

Grown Vegan Apothecary & DIY Bar: Host community activities to advance wellness, self-care products and neighborhood engagement.

Egun Omode Performing Arts Collective: Provide classes in West African dance, drums and sekere percussion classes to advance knowledge of West African and Caribbean cultures.

Bentrice Jusu: Create “Potential Project Pop Out experience” featuring a short documentary of the artist’s work creating the multi-media project reflecting the impact of violence, engaging visitors to recognize and act on their “Potential,” and selling memorabilia.

Tha Block Trenton: Engage neighborhood residents, collect oral histories to share life stories through organized affinity spaces and host a community meal.

Greater Mt. Zion AME Church: Preserve the history of one of the first African Methodist Episcopal churches organized in 1816 and tell the story to residents, students and city visitors.

IAT and Isles plan to offer another round of OTN grants in August, 2023. The grant program is funded by the New Jersey Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program and builds on priorities of the 2007 Old Trenton Neighborhood plan and the 2016 Creek to Canal Creative District plan (available at www. creektocanalcreative.org). These grants only support projects physically located inside or serving residents of the Old Trenton neighborhood. Funded projects focus on either Business Development or Community Investment. IAT has been raising funds and supporting grassroots efforts across the city since 2007.

More information: www.iamtrenton. org.

See KIOSK, page 4

MANAGING EDITOR

Sara Hastings

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Jennifer Steﬀen (Ext. 113)

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