 My name is Beloved Ola Jindai. I currently live in Harlem, not too far from here at the Riverton Square, and I am a Create Change resident for 2014 the Longermap Project. My Create Change project is called Harlem on My Mind 2. It's a history project. I describe it as a participatory documentary, and what we've done is set up a recording booth, Bola, out here in front of the Longermap here in Harlem, where I have the opportunity to engage my neighbors or ask them what do they love most about Harlem, and it's an invitation for them to share their stories about their favorite places, their fondest memories, their connection to Harlem, whether it's its history, its culture, its legacy, and the intention of myself being an artist is to take those responses, those narratives, and blend them together to make a soundscape or collage that I can share as part of the documentary and the culmination event this fall. My project for the Longermap Project is occurring here in Harlem. My connection for me is it starts with family. My mother and her siblings were born and are raised in Harlem before moving to Queens where I was born, and so I kind of always grew up with Harlem being part of the family law, and now I live in Harlem. Both my wife and I, we've been here about five years. My son is born in Harlem, and I call Harlem home, and I remember living in Brooklyn for ten years, and I kind of felt like the only person I knew was the person that lived at the Longermap, you know, that worked at the Longermap, and I hear of this opportunity with this project, with this residency to kind of build and create, you know, community with my own neighbors where I live, to deepen some of those relationships, because I didn't stay here as much as long as I can at least. I remember our very first exchange came from someone who I didn't know at the time was connected to the Longermap, you know, that he's lived in this community for 40 years, who knew the family that owns the Longermap. We said, well maybe we should invite him to an interview, and he's like, no, no, I have no time for that, I can't do that, no. And in that same breath, he started rattling off, you know, point by point, some of the history of almost every establishment up and down here for the, you know, like a three-block radius. This used to be a vacant space, this was abandoned, this was where so-and-so had gotten shot, you know, this is where Ho Chi Minh, you know, was a waiter at the CNC where Sylvia's is over there, you know, I'm like, oh my gosh, and he kept talking for like 20 minutes, you know, I'm like, you don't want to be interviewed, and he's giving us the whole, you know, this whole living history that, you know, which is part of the basis and, you know, design of this project, and I realize at the end of the day that he was willing to share that with us as long as it was off the record. And part of it has to do with trust and building relationships, and for me that was like, you know, that sign that that's where it's at. You know, I know I'm asking this question to folks who are passing through and participating in the workshop, but, you know, this is the question that I've really been invested in, like, what makes Harlem Harlem? And, you know, for me, I'm not sure if there's one definitive answer or response for that, and I really do get the sense that more than I'm going to speak to people, people experience Harlem differently, you know, and even if they're living in the same building, living in an apartment, one door from each other, they experience the problem is it can be very, very different.