Transform 1012 Storytelling Circles

Help shape the stories we tell in our North Texas Histories permanent exhibit!About this Event

Share your voice! Shape History!We are excited to invite community members to participate in one of three in-person storyteller’s circles!An oral history storytellers' circle is a way of gathering community memories by inviting people — often elders or longtime residents — to sit together and share personal stories about a place, rather than being interviewed one-on-one. A facilitator asks open questions (like "what do you remember about this street?"), and stories build off each other as people listen and respond.

Story Circles are used to preserve history that isn't written down anywhere else, and to pass that history on to younger generations. We invite you to share your story.

The questions below are examples of what our interviewers will ask during these conversations — we're sharing them here so you can see the kinds of stories we hope to gather, and so you can start thinking about what yo