What’s New in 2023?
Bedford Get Together has planned an exciting and full year ahead!
Our Bedford Story, an ongoing collaborative, group-based story telling opportunity for everyone in the community, will serve as an umbrella for the many other projects we have in the works throughout the year. Read about it here!
Bedford Get Together is pleased to offer its 4th annual Community Services Awards, recognizing and celebrating individuals and organizations who share the vision of Bedford Get Together. For more information and to make a nomination for these awards, click here.
Community Mural
Bedford Get Together is working to make a large community mural come to life on the side of the building owned by Radford and Wandrei, P.C. overlooking Centertown Park. Early concepts were based on a WWII painting commissioned by Dan Villareal a longtime volunteer at the D-Day Memorial, where the painting hangs today. In the realization that troops were segregated in WWII, but they have marched and died together in several wars since that time, the theme we hope to strike is that we’re all – everyone, regardless of race or color -- in this together.
Bedford Get Together plans to issue a call to artists later this year and will host a community meeting to get feedback before deciding on the final image. Who knows? Maybe we’ll also have a contest to name the mural!
This project will not be possible without support and donations from community members, organizations and businesses. If you are interested in helping this project become a reality, please contact us at bedfordgettogether@gmail.com.
Counter Ridge History Project (at the Sedalia Center)
Bedford Get Together is partnering with the Sedalia Center to support its Counter Ridge History Project. The Counter Ridge School building, which later became the Sedalia Center, was built in 1959 and used until 1969 as a segregated elementary school for African-Americans. The project seeks to return this history to the African-American community by creating a place where it is recognized with dignity and for the enlightenment of the community at large. it is a place to reclaim and remember the lives lived as children during its time, and a permanent testament to those times. Information about this project, including oral histories which comprise a major part of the project, are posted to YouTube at Counter Ridge History Project and on the project’s website at Counter Ridge History Project.
Community Meetings and Events
Bedford Get Together is planning to conduct various community meetings this year, beginning in early March with Our Bedford Story, later this year for getting feedback on the community mural, a celebration in the Fall for Community Service Award Winners, and others.
If you have an idea for a community meeting topic or event, please email us at bedfordgettogether@gmail.com.
Bedford Get Together has planned an exciting and full year ahead!
Our Bedford Story, an ongoing collaborative, group-based story telling opportunity for everyone in the community, will serve as an umbrella for the many other projects we have in the works throughout the year. Read about it here!
Bedford Get Together is pleased to offer its 4th annual Community Services Awards, recognizing and celebrating individuals and organizations who share the vision of Bedford Get Together. For more information and to make a nomination for these awards, click here.
Community Mural
Bedford Get Together is working to make a large community mural come to life on the side of the building owned by Radford and Wandrei, P.C. overlooking Centertown Park. Early concepts were based on a WWII painting commissioned by Dan Villareal a longtime volunteer at the D-Day Memorial, where the painting hangs today. In the realization that troops were segregated in WWII, but they have marched and died together in several wars since that time, the theme we hope to strike is that we’re all – everyone, regardless of race or color -- in this together.
Bedford Get Together plans to issue a call to artists later this year and will host a community meeting to get feedback before deciding on the final image. Who knows? Maybe we’ll also have a contest to name the mural!
This project will not be possible without support and donations from community members, organizations and businesses. If you are interested in helping this project become a reality, please contact us at bedfordgettogether@gmail.com.
Counter Ridge History Project (at the Sedalia Center)
Bedford Get Together is partnering with the Sedalia Center to support its Counter Ridge History Project. The Counter Ridge School building, which later became the Sedalia Center, was built in 1959 and used until 1969 as a segregated elementary school for African-Americans. The project seeks to return this history to the African-American community by creating a place where it is recognized with dignity and for the enlightenment of the community at large. it is a place to reclaim and remember the lives lived as children during its time, and a permanent testament to those times. Information about this project, including oral histories which comprise a major part of the project, are posted to YouTube at Counter Ridge History Project and on the project’s website at Counter Ridge History Project.
Community Meetings and Events
Bedford Get Together is planning to conduct various community meetings this year, beginning in early March with Our Bedford Story, later this year for getting feedback on the community mural, a celebration in the Fall for Community Service Award Winners, and others.
If you have an idea for a community meeting topic or event, please email us at bedfordgettogether@gmail.com.