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Artists, activists, and organizers share the gift of creating beauty and belonging during times of turmoil and struggle, and they help us imagine what is possible in bold and urgent ways. What can we learn from our elders who have stewarded these traditions in our community? What threads from the past are woven into how we organize and create, here in the South Sound today?

Join us for a series of artist talks, workshops, and performances! Celebrate our community’s rich traditions, share powerful stories and ideas, and ask what is possible.

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Our Bodies, Our Choices: An Intergenerational Conversation and Interactive Theater Experience

Friday, September 9, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Olympia Family Theater
612 4th Ave E, Olympia, WA 98501

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Join us for an intergenerational conversation and interactive theatre experience in partnership with Olympia Planned Parenthood. Listen to an intergenerational panel discussion, and then participate in (or watch) an interactive community storytelling circle and image theatre experience. We’ll reflect on themes of access to abortion, sexual health, bodily self-determination, and how systems of power and oppression have impacted individuals and the larger community over time. Planned Parenthood will share information, legislative updates, and ways to take action.

We're asking that people wear masks at this event. Thank you! 

This event grew from the stories Pat Holm shared with us through The Third Thirty project and was produced in collaboration with Planned Parenthood.

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The Third Thirty: Reunion, Creative Visioning, and Skill-Share

RESCHEDULED - STAY TUNED!
Olympia Senior Center
222 Columbia Street NW, Olympia, WA 98501

Join us for a reunion, panel discussion, and creative visioning!

The event will begin with a panel discussion. Ron Chew (community organizer, writer, and former executive director of the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, among many other things), Sam Schrager (faculty emeritus at The Evergreen State College and facilitator of the Evergreen State College oral history project), and and Lonnie Locke (Looking Back, Moving Forward project coordinator) will reflect on the power and possibilities of public history. And we’ll invite past Third Thirty narrators, interviewers, and creative collaborators to share their experiences. After the panel, Meg O'Leary, (Producer of the 2015 TEDxOlympia) will lead us in a story sharing and visioning activity about how we can use The Third Thirty and oral history in general to strengthen our community!

Our Third Thirty photo voice exhibit will be on display so you can experience the stories we gathered with community members for the project.

This event is part of our Community Roots series. All are welcome, so share with your friends! Light refreshments will be provided.

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Our Third Thirty photo voice exhibit will be on display so you can experience the stories we gathered with community members for the project.

All are welcome. Light refreshments will be provided.

Produced in partnership with Senior Services for South Sound.

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Playback Theatre! Stories of Weaving the Wisdom of Art & Activism

Featuring members of The Heartsparkle Players, The Thunders, and Brave Practice Theatre Collective

Saturday, September 10
2:00pm - 3:30pm performance | 3:30pm - 4:30pm panel discussion
Olympia Senior Center
222 Columbia Street NW, Olympia, WA 98501

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Join us for an afternoon of Playback Theatre, a spontaneous collaboration between performers and audience. People tell real moments from their lives, then watch them re-created on stage. This is an Audience Up! performance. In this performance audience members are invited to join and perform alongside us. Come for the performance, and stay for a discussion with performers about how playback has grown in the community over the past 31 years!

This event grew from the stories Debe Edden shared with us through The Third Thirty project and was produced in collaboration with Senior Services for South Sound.

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Sharing Stories Through Handicraft:
An Artist Talk with Dan McKinstry & Harvest Moon

Sunday, September 11, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Arbutus Folk School
610 4th Ave E, Olympia, WA 98501

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Join us for an artist talk with Master Storyteller and Basketweaver, Harvest Moon, and Master Luthier, Daniel McKinstry. Both have deep ties to the region and a shared love for western red cedar as a medium for their craft. We’ll explore how handicraft is a form of storytelling and how it connects us to our homeplace and to each other.

This event is part of our Community Roots series and grew from the stories Harvest and Dan shared with us through The Third Thirty project. Produced in collaboration with Arbutus Folk School.

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