Wee The People’s “Protestival” at Boston’s Mozart Park, as part of the Jamaica Plain Porchfest on July 8, offered music, stenciling T-shirts, and “Bridges Not Walls,” in which kids built a giant wall with boxes and knocked it down and built it again and knocked it down again and built it again and knocked it down again. Wee The People was founded in 2016 by Francie Latour and Tanya Nixon-Silberg, two moms who aim to teach children about protest, racism, class, xenophobia, gentrification, gender and difference through visual and performing arts so “that kids can engage on their level.”
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Tanya Nixon-Silberg (right) of Wee The People helps kids stencil T-shirts at their “Protestival” at Boston’s Mozart Park, July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Francie Latour (left) of Wee The People helps kids stencil T-shirts at their “Protestival” at Boston’s Mozart Park, July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Stenciling a T-shirt at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Posting a protest sign to the wall at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Rebuilding the wall at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Knocking down the wall at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Rebuilding the wall at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Knocking down the wall at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Rebuilding the wall at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Climbing through the wall at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Rebuilding the wall at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)The wall of boxes at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Knocking down the wall at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)Knocking down the wall at Wee The People’s “Protestival,” July 8, 2017. (Greg Cook)
