Fresno CAN residents are invited to join the CAN project team for Community Story Mapping! Cultural mapping helps practitioners identify cultural assets that can and should be protected (or created) throughout and after the project development process. On this launch day, residents and community members will help determine people, places, invisible assets, and other dynamics that the CAN community considers (or would consider) an asset. Residents will also be encouraged to submit photo documentation that depicts current quality of life in the CAN community.
On launch day, West Fresno community members will be encouraged to submit oral histories, photos, videos, voice memos, and art that speak to the theme of “Spirit of West Fresno.” These community stories and memories will help determine people, places, invisible assets, and other significant dynamics in the CAN community. The team will collect community memories and stories through an online form and through in-person appointments through November 2021. This cultural mapping effort will help practitioners identify cultural assets that can and should be protected (or created) throughout and after the project development process. The oral histories and memories collected from residents will be mapped and unveiled at the Exhibit where residents will have an opportunity to view and add to the asset maps. Youth from the community will help with story collection and will serve as dolcents and creative partners for the exhibit and storytelling/spoken word night.
Community members, please use THIS FORM to share your West Fresno Stories and Memories!
Information on in-person appointments: coming soon!
This event is one in a series of engagement activations designed get to the heart of a dignity-infused, resident-centered experience. The core desired outcomes among all the activations are to activate people to self-determine how they’d like to grow their environments/communities and to spark new ideas and action-oriented civic engagement and ways of being.
Information for how and where to submit stories and photos will be shared on this activation launch day!