Listen!
- International Day for Sharing Life Stories
May
16, 2008
Friday, 25 April 2008
please forward globally
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A call to move humankind closer and forward
Listen! - International
Day for Sharing Life Stories
May 16th 2008
http://ausculti.org/english.html
A life-changing opportunity
for people around the world to gather
in homes, community halls, classrooms, public parks,
theaters, auditoriums,
Web sites, e-mail exchanges, and virtual environments
to hear each others stories
A growing international movement of citizens and practitioners views
listening, collecting and sharing life stories as a critical process in
democratizing culture and promoting social change.
This day is dedicated to celebrating and promoting Life
Story projects that are making a difference within neighborhoods,
communities, and societies.
What to do for
Friday, May 16th 2008
1. Choose a way to gather
people to share their stories where you live or work:
Story Circles in homes,
workplaces, schools, community centers, virtual environments
Public open microphone performances of personal stories
Exhibitions of Stories in public venues, as image, text, and
audio-visual materials
Celebratory events to honor local storytellers, practitioners and
organizations
Open houses for organizations with a life story sharing component
Online simultaneous gatherings, postings, and story exchanges
Print, Radio and Television broadcast programming on life
stories, and documentaries that feature oral histories and story exchanges
2. Invite diverse
youth and adults
3. Register your activity
Send e-mail to internacional@museudapessoa.net .
A worldwide calendar of events for the May 16-18
weekend will be gathered.
Calendar listings will appear on a dedicated Web site, along with a map
of the participating organizations.
ENDORSEMENTS
View Organizations
and Individuals who support the International Day for Sharing Life Stories:
http://ausculti.org/endorsements.html
Add your
personal or group endorsement, with e-mail to:
internacional@museudapessoa.net
SPONSOR ORGANIZATIONS - Two generous, creative grassroots groups are organizing this
historic day:
Museum of the Person
- Sao Paolo, Brazil
http://www.museudapessoa.net/ingles/about_the_museum.htm
The Museum of the Person is an international network of
virtual museums of life stories, located in Brazil, Canada, the USA and
Portugal.
Their
mission is to contribute to make every persons life
story valued by society.
Center for Digital Storytelling - Berkeley, California, USA
The Center trains people and organizations, while developing
projects with digital media that help people tell meaningful stories from their
lives.
They also
serve as an international clearinghouse of information and resources about
storytelling and new media.
Register your activity now with e-mail to internacional@museudapessoa.net
A story is the shortest distance between people. - Pat Speight
An enemy is one whose stories we have not heard.
- Ms. Gene Knudsen-Hoffman
Storytelling can change a room. It can change lives. It can
change the world. -
Gwenda LedBetter