Uncovering & Preserving Our Stories
Talk Story, often associated with Hawaii, is both concept and process. For the 1882 Foundation, it refers to the set of activities and programs that we associate with collecting oral histories and preserving story sites. These include our monthly Talk Story Events and efforts to record and store oral histories. They include the production of the Through Chinatown’s Eyes short documentary series. They are related to heritage tours.
Talk Story encourages individuals to reveal their stories in their own words and to share them with others. There are two parts to this—telling and sharing. “Telling” refers to people saying what is historically important to them. This is empowering. It allows them to define themselves, the elements of their identity, as opposed to having an “historian” define for them what is historically important.
Talk Story, often associated with Hawaii, is both concept and process. For the 1882 Foundation, it refers to the set of activities and programs that we associate with collecting oral histories and preserving story sites. These include our monthly Talk Story Events and efforts to record and store oral histories. They include the production of the Through Chinatown’s Eyes short documentary series. They are related to heritage tours.
Talk Story encourages individuals to reveal their stories in their own words and to share them with others. There are two parts to this—telling and sharing. “Telling” refers to people saying what is historically important to them. This is empowering. It allows them to define themselves, the elements of their identity, as opposed to having an “historian” define for them what is historically important.
Talks Story – Recaps & Posts
The 1882 Foundation is pleased to invite you to a Talk Story Event on “Legacy: Film Screening and Discussion on the Summit Tunnel.” Register for Zoom link at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApcuuoqTwsGNBvuW3BCC0PlwFgsmCyj-wk You […]
On July 25th, 2021, the 1882 Foundation held its first event of three discussing martial arts in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Panelists Master Raymond Wong, Sunny Luk, and […]
Ed Tepporn, Barbara Wyatt, Catherine Lo, Dr. Warner Wood, Justin Hoover, Cassie Chinn Description: In the second session of 1882 Symposium VIII, panelists discuss ways in which museums and businesses […]
Missed a Talk Story?
Many of our talk stories after December 2018 are available in our Digital Archive.
You can also check out our blog for detailed recaps for the events, and check out our Facebook Live videos for live footage of the programs!
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To the extent the stories resonate with others and groups coalesce to listen, our communities become defined. The “sharing” of a common legacy and the inspiration to re-tell them in a modern setting and even to go out and create new stories make the community alive.
This leads to our Talk Story slogan, inspired partially by Bonnie Tsui’s observation in American Chinatown: