We are excited to announce our 2024-25 cycle of community-based local history documentation and community engagement. This season, we are streamlining our efforts to grow, activate, and make accessible stories within our oral history archive. We are focusing on our Community Roots collection and leveraging our theatre company, Brave Practice, to engage themes within these community histories. Below is a sneak preview of our Fall season!

• Parter with Interfaith Works on an oral history exhibit for their 50th Anniversary Celebration.
• Launch our fall Community Roots cohort in partnership with Capital City Pride to document local LGBTQIAA2S+ History. Convene and train our cohort in project development and oral history interviewing.
• Host Workshop #1 in our three-part series - Documenting Ourselves: Oral History For Educators and Community.
• Install our Community Roots exhibit in a new location and host three events, one activating The Liberation Cafe story in collaboration with the Evergreen Civic Engagement Academy, one activating the Driftwood Daycare story using Playback Theatre with Brave Practice, in collaboration with Evergreen’s Children’s Center, and one activating the Camp Quixote story with a community partner group.
• Create an accession plan for our oral history archive with Olympia Timberland Library.
• Brave Practice hosts two performances, one in collaboration with a youth-focused community organization, and one in a classroom or school-based program.

Unfortunately, we've decided not to continue our Creativity Salon series as planned. We recommend folks check out Olympia Lamplighters, Oly Queer Figure Drawing, and Community Print for other similar creative spaces. We feel blessed to have shared this creative space with you in the past and look forward to more capacity to focus on our other oral history programming.

Please note that most activities this year will take place in public locations within Olympia city limits because Inspire Olympia is our main funding source. We will continue to engage throughout the South Sound and State as capacity allows. Check back on the events page often for most up-to-date published events.

Thank you!

We have received an Inspire Olympia Impact Grant from the City of Olympia!

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