Every new railroad starts with one station, a train, and a whole lot of fanfare. Unlike the D, N, & R Trains that transports passengers from nearby Manhattan through and around our beautiful global neighborhood, it is the U-Train that will bring us all together to crash through walls of hatred, misogyny, and bigotry. "The Sunset Park Railroad" is an ongoing community building project of Fractured Atlas, a 501c3 non profit arts services organization and presented by Mena Mountain Productions.
ALL ABOARD!
"I would like to invite you to this revolutionary project by becoming an engineer of peace, love, and unity. The vision of this project is to sculpt the streets of Sunset Park into a colorful space for cultural expression through the installation of art." Harry Mena - your Co/Engineer and artistic director.
MISSION:
The Sunset Park Railroad is a continuing multi arts/educational community-building project, a movement that will provide the images that are sorely missing from mainstream media of good people from around the world coming together for the benefit of everyone. We will deliver the arts and sciences while making a massive collection of memories that will come from: houses of worship (churches, mosques, temples), schools, shops, restaurants, our hospital, factories, our library, the police and fire stations, senior centers, and community-based organizations. All donations for purposes of the Sunset Park Railroad are to be made to Fractured Atlas only and are tax deductible as permitted by law. This movement will take place at several locations throughout the historically immigrant South Brooklyn neighborhood with multiple components featuring the work of Mr. Huang Xiang. His work and that of our other artists will connect many of our neighborhood stakeholders into dialogue toward an effort that will celebrate a love of diversity and our humanity. It will also make Sunset Park a destination like no other! All aboard!
The Sunset Park Railroad aims to unite all of our partners working daily to reach solutions to the problems that typically afflict poor and working class immigrant communities. These impacts include a shortage of affordable housing that leaves little hope for residents wishing to age in place, overcrowded schools with few resources, police discourse that is of concern to all, high unemployment, health disparities, and racial tensions that lye beneath the surface. It will lead to a transformative experience for all who choose to be involved in creating common ground for the common good culminating in a massive collection of stories documenting the immigrant experience by those whom have lived, learned, worked and worshiped here.
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