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| VISION |
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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-generated 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.
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Story Art Readings and Exhibits are designed especially to bring Youth and
Elders together to pass on the Elders' 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 Encinitas Youth/Elder Story Art Project brought together 23 Youth
and 26 Elders in a series of meetings and workshops in Encinitas. In the fall
of 2004, Youth between the ages of 12 and 20 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 at the Encinitas Community and Senior Center on
Sunday, May 22, 2005.
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