Project "You’re Worthy”: Musician Bob Conga, Graffiti Artist Lamont Nelson Celebrates at the Yeadon Library by Van Stone

Project "You’re Worthy”: Musician Bob Conga, Graffiti Artist Lamont Nelson Celebrates at the Yeadon Library by Van Stone 

 

From L to R:  Bob Conga, Musician, Yeadon 

Resident, Lamont A. Nelson, Designer Graffiti Artist,

Philadelphia, Resident.

 

Musicians, designer graffiti artists, and even social workers are joining libraries in both Yeadon and Philly to provide help where it’s needed.  As the Yeadon library evolves to reflect it is available for neighborhood improvement projects, people like Yeadon resident Bob Conga and Southwest Philly resident Lamont A. Nelson are finding the building is increasingly filled with regulars from the fringes of society looking for projects that support services, safety and access to technology.

And many of those people are about to find unexpected help.  Because the project called "You’re Worthy" is also a regular at the Yeadon library, for reasons of celebration. The independent music artist Bob Conga, who has written the lyrics and produced a single of the song called "You’re Worthy", plans to roam the corridors of the library to seek out and support children and adults who are down on their luck or want education about music history.

Volunteering along with Conga at the Yeadon Library is designer graffiti artist Lamont A. Nelson who says, ”I want to help restore dignity to youth who are frustrated about the way things are today.”  Nelson uses graffiti handwriting to show that there is a social component to art, and  the positive messages that can be shared with parents and students from drawing graffiti at the library.

In addition to following the library program’s academic setting, Conga uses rhythm and movement to teach children qualities such as determination, achievement and self-confidence.  As a trained musician and fashion model, Conga writes most of the songs that children can sing in a classroom and library.

Both men have the same goal in mind and that is to become a friend, a good listener to children, youth and adults who have enjoyed the most recent celebration of the grand opening of the new addition to the Yeadon Public Library, September 13, 2014.

 

Library Director Richard Ashby expressed his excitement about the new addition and offered details on the many programs being initiated to serve members of the community of all ages. The grand opening of the new addition to the library has attracted the attention of the You’re Worthy project volunteers, such as Bob and Lamont who live in both Yeadon and Southwest Philadelphia.  The two men want to establish outreach worker relationships going on between them and Yeadon residents.

“My story at the library will be the reminder of importance of the role of men who seek to make a positive difference in the lives of young children,” says Conga.

 

Many people who have been helped by the library, especially the Yeadon Library, will soon want to return, volunteering to help popular activities held at the library every day, afternoon or on a particular night.

The You’re Worthy project at the library can be to many like a last stand against despair,” says Nelson. Good urban and suburban space has become so tight these days because of bad economic situations.  When people are occupying library space, tight as it may become, the worthy usage increases its value and no one feels that they will be pushed away.