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Legacies is a home town, national model and an inter-generational project that
honors the important role Elders hold in our culture by celebrating them
through Youth created story art works, culminating in an invaluable community
legacy to be exhibited throughout a local region.
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MISSION STATEMENT
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It is the great task of Elders in any society to pass on the fruits of their
accumulated life lessons, embedded within their life stories, to the younger
generation. Therefore a mature society always honors its Elders by establising
a way for them to share their wisdom. Without this rite of passage we continue
to stumble again and again over ordinary obstacles life presents to us, as well
as waste our foreparents' hard-earned knowing without even noticing we are
doing so. Legacies is designed especially to bring Youth and Elders
together to pass on the Elder's life stories through story art works. By doing
this, not only can we prevent losing our Elders' accumulated wisdom, a social
tragedy, we can actually provide a way to preserve and invest our older
citizen's rich life experiences in our Youth's budding creativity.
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
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Legacies: The Solana Beach Youth/Elder Story Art Project brought together 25
pairs of Youth and Elders in a series of meetings and workshops in Solana
Beach. In the fall and winter of 2005, Youth between the ages of 7 and 18
interviewed Elders in the their homes. These interviews were transcribed and
the Youth also collected old photos and documents from their partners. Using
these material the Youth met in four Saturday book art workshops in which they
each created a collage art book of their Elder's life stories. These art works
were then the basis of celebratory local and regional community Readings and
Exhibits. The first Reading and Exhibit was held on Saturday, May 27, 2006.
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