Move event

Editor's Notes

1. Natasha of Creative Narration
2. This is the room before the event. Mark, the videograher setting up. They’ll show the digital stories on the screen
3. People will sign in …the program is in three different languages. Micah is a staff person and helps create/produce storiesNicole is the communications person from the health department
4. At lunch on Friday,natasha gets a call requesting head sets for translation..it wasn’t budgeted…Nicoles says we have to do it. We’ll find a way
5. One of the story tellers signs in with the help of a translator
6. People start to arrive…we’d asked Natasha at lunch..how many will mean success….she hopes for 40..but says could be as little as 25…it has started to rain..this may lower the numbers
7. Making decisions about what music to play
8. This is the take actioncenter..you can sign a petition asking that community center hours not be cut..and you can view the map with stories
9. Introducing the event and explaining the petition..in two languages
10. People start to arrive in waves…more chairs are brought in
11. The event starts out with a line dance
12. The crowed is now at over 100 people
13. Story tellers introduce themselves and their stories
14. The stories are screened
15. The crowd is rapt
16. All the council members invited show up..one who had said no…when he scheduled changed..called to see if he could still comeThey watch the stories
17. The four council members and one Parks staff person on stage for the panel
18. They each get five minutes
19. The crowd pays close attention
20. The two asks that each council person is asked to address
21. The crowd is asked to write in questions
22. Afterwards all of the council members stay and talk to community members…3 agree to be interviewedHigh lights…Moderate- I’ve lived her 20 years..never seen anything like like this…4 council members and an audiennce of over 100.Council member asks audience..who is registered to vote. Second time…question is asked more slowly..twice as many people raiser their hands..their is spontaneous applauce.One of the story tellers says a council member approached him to talk about his story and wanted more information.
23. The Danny Woo gardens…one of the story tellers works here..and was requesting funding to make the gardens safe and accessible for all