Attending
\n\u2022\tJackie Hai
\n\u2022\tAlisha Saville
\n\u2022\tLinda Shaw
\n\u2022\tAnnie Anderson
\n\u2022\tAmber Rivera
\n\u2022\tKhari Johnson
\n\u2022\tAlicia Montgomery
\n\u2022\tElaine Cha
\n\u2022\tAnd a few more folks we didn\u2019t catch the names of\u2014sorry!<\/p>\n
Context: jesikah maria ross (jmr) at Capital Public Radio is planning a series of civic storytelling live events and engaged the group in a visioning exercise to share best practices and wild new ideas.<\/p>\n
jmr\u2019s scenario for the group to consider and riff off:
\n\u2022\tWho: journalists, public media audiences, stakeholders, partners and advisors
\n\u2022\tWhat: audio clips, group conversations, images, music, poetry, singing
\n\u2022\tWhy: new connections, perspectives, understanding, action steps<\/p>\n
jmr\u2019s guiding questions:<\/p>\n
1. Creating The Space: How to set tone and context to feel generous, respectful, meaningful? What gestures could evoke a sense of care, intention?<\/p>\n
2. Activities & Actions: What might they do together and how? How might we embed in the structure continued action?<\/p>\n
Here are the amazing ideas the group generated\u2026<\/p>\n
CREATING THE SPACE
\nSetting an intentional & respectful tone<\/p>\n
\u2022\tType of space: club or party atmosphere, host in-home events, tours of hard-hit areas (but not poverty tourism), host event near where people live, start and partner with existing comfortable spaces (libraries, churches)
\n\u2022\tSituational space: welcome circle, chairs in a horseshoe or circle or roundtables
\n\u2022\tAtmosphere: hot chocolate bar, welcome people in a personal way, greet not just sign in
\n\u2022\tAccessibility: accessible venue, near public transportation, accommodations for elderly, disabled
\n\u2022\tIdeation: provide a blank canvas, white wall and art materials participants can add to at their leisure, initial activity for everyone to get them thinking and connecting
\n\u2022\tVerbally invite people to show up as their whole selves. Their personal lives as parents, children, creatives, professional, nerds etc.<\/p>\n
CREATING THE SPACE\/ACTIVITIES
\nIdeas between generating the space and doing the activities
\n\u2022\tUse open space technology
\n\u2022\tHave food and live mic
\n\u2022\tOpen with music and poetry, then continue the thread throughout
\n\u2022\tDance and movement
\n\u2022\tCreate a timeline
\n\u2022\tUse of silence or walking around<\/p>\n
ACTIVITIES
\nWhat might people do together and how? How to structure in continued efforts?<\/p>\n
\u2022\tHeavy Prep Required: collaborative\/engagement, technology: storytelling from personal experience, 20 slides\/5 minutes, closed and curated facebook groups, create your own theatre productions of investigative journalism (e.g. CIR\/StoryWorks)<\/p>\n
\u2022\tLight Prep Required: begin with one crazy question triad (e.g. what keeps you up at night, when did you feel you belong, the things people have done to keep the roof over their head), breakout group facilitated by unusual suspects (e.g. youth), opportunity for people to talk in groups of 3-5 with prompts<\/p>\n
\u2022\tApproach to event convo: instead of panel of expert speakers have panel of expert listeners (e.g. fishbowl), chance for audience to ask questions of the storytellers <\/p>\n
\u2022\tGenerated content during and after: Connection photobooth (take a selfie w\/ someone you connected with and want to follow-up with, text the photo to each other to make a follow up plan), pop-up audio\/oral history booth in libraries, mix of storytelling\/info sharing, personalize opportunities for exchange of talents\/skills (skill barter table, gifts organizations can exchange), listening post\/sound booth with recording available immediately afterwards, after event know the names of people attended (contact management system so that you don\u2019t call someone who participated and talk to them as if they weren\u2019t there)<\/p>\n
\u2022\tGroup chats (slack\/facebook messenger) before and after event<\/p>\n
Note to all: as a wrap up the whole group went around and did a dance move to express how they were feeling about our time together\u2014it was BRILLIANT! <\/p>\n
Thanks to my amazing peers in this session and the conference. Feel free to share more ideas and I\u2019ll keep a running list<\/p>\n
jesikah Attending \u2022 Jackie Hai \u2022 Alisha Saville \u2022 Linda Shaw \u2022 Annie Anderson \u2022 Amber Rivera \u2022 Khari Johnson \u2022 Alicia Montgomery \u2022 Elaine Cha \u2022 And a few more folks we didn\u2019t catch the names of\u2014sorry! Context: jesikah maria … Continue reading
\njmross@capradio.org
\n@jmr_MediaSpark<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"