Cities are mutable, both culturally and creatively. Driven by a sometimes carnivorous
impulse, the metropolis feeds on its own past, the various pasts of its individual neighbourhoods, in order to evolve into a future version of itself. But what remains of the past? Can we track the cultural, artistic, and social bonds of an area, map the essence of any given ’hood in its progression through time? How is the integral artistic spirit of a place—in the form of art, music, theatre, and storytelling—kept alive in the present?