Storytelling -- Social aspects

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"Community Storytelling Guide on Migration is a digital resource to support community storytellers and mediamakers in being better prepared to work with a wide range of migrants to share their stories online. This guide is intentional in its usage of the word migration, a practice which is an essential part of human existence and survival. We migrate for different reasons, and stories can be a powerful means of understanding those nuances of migration." --Abstract.

Overview "As the United States population undergoes an unprecedented aging process, the field of creative aging serves as a powerful intervention to combat ageism while providing older adults with meaningful opportunities for personal growth and social connection. This paper delves into the successes and challenges of piloting a Reminiscence Performance project at a senior center. The primary objective was to underscore the generative potential and celebrate the lives of older adults within the...

Overview ""You can see in people's bodies their...resistance at the beginning of a story circle. By the end, their bodies have released something." -Robbie McCauley "In times of crisis, "educators are 'second responders'—helping make sense of things as we go along and after." -Bob Colby This project explores how story circles and applied theatre exercises can be used to foster connection and community between a group of participants previously unknown to one another, and offer opportunities for...

Overview

"Our public spaces are their own microcosm of stories. This thesis is an examination of how public and participatory engagement tactics implemented in public space can work as ample methods of capturing community narratives during a brief moment in time, and how through DIY zine-making, those stories can be used to memorialize a neighborhood's collective identity while in the midst of change." --Abstract.