Participant Form
What is your Origin Story?
What shaped your personal and cultural sense of identity? What is the story behind how you or your ancestors arrived here? What wisdom do you carry from the generations that preceded you? What have you overcome on your way to finding the identity that roots you to the world?
The project focuses on stories from four categories:
Experiences of Arrival – coming to America, embracing new family members, arriving in a new community…
Experiences of Legacy – voices of our ancestors, lessons from our elders, impact of generational heritage…
Experiences of Revelation – LBGTQ+ stories, spiritual/religious awakening, secrets discovered, insights gained…
Experiences of Adversity – abuse, poverty, addiction, transformation, renewal and resilience…
Each of these categories has the potential to expand over time. Experiences of Arrival could grow to encompass welcoming new family members, new community members, finding oneself in a new place and community. Experiences of Revelation could grow to include spiritual or religious awakening, secrets discovered, insights gained. Experiences of Adversity will likely grow to include other stories of discovery, transformation, and renewal. All the stories contain within them the seeds of recognition, understanding and compassion.
Guidelines for Storytellers and Artists
You may record and create your story and Art Box or collaborate with another to be the storyteller or artist.
Audio stories should be no longer than 3 minutes. We suggest you record on a voice memo app. Please identify yourself, where you live and tell your story.
Here’s an example: “I’m Stanley Johnston from San Francisco, California and my story is…”
Artists will receive a small, medium or large transparent 5-sided box. Please feel free to create your artwork up to 20” x 20” x 22”.
Please contact elaine@saffroncommunities.com for more information on timing and delivery.