photos courtesy Suzie Katz
Bridging Generations: An Intergenerational Learning Project – New York
PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PHOTOVILLE
Bridging Generations is a year-long initiative created in partnership with Photoville. The project is centered on intergenerational exchange, community storytelling, and creative collaboration. Older and younger learners partnered to share personal histories, collaborate artistically, and cultivate new, intergenerational connections.
March 14th, 2026 – Henry Street Settlement
New York City
This year, Photoville and PhotoWings embarked on a collaborative, intergenerational photography project. The Bridging Generations initiative has now been held in two locations—New York City and the Bay Area—centered on intergenerational exchange, oral history, community storytelling, and creative collaboration.
Presented by: Photoville, PhotoWings, and Henry Street Settlement
About Photoville
Photoville, Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.
In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.
Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.
For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com
About Henry Street Settlement
Henry Street Settlement’s mission is to open doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social services, arts, and health care programs. The organization is distinguished by its commitment to listening to and learning from our neighbors—and then acting to meet the most pressing needs of our community.
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Bridging Generations: An Intergenerational Learning Project – San Francisco
Bridging Generations is a year-long initiative created in partnership with Photoville. The project is centered on intergenerational exchange, community storytelling, and creative collaboration. Older and younger learners partnered to share personal histories, collaborate artistically, and cultivate new, intergenerational connections.