Sharing our stories. Strengthening our communities.

​Window Seat Media weaves the stories that often go unshared into the fabric of our public life.

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Community Narratives

Support Local Community Oral History & Storytelling

At Window Seat Media, we gather people together to share stories that spark conversation, connection, and social change. We do this because we believe we write our future with the stories we narrate, and we want to co-create a more inclusive, connected, and just world.

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Pride Storytelling Cohort Timeline

We've brought together this timeline to share the Pride Storytelling Project cohort's progress and opportunities for community engagmeent with you.

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Queerotica Art Exhibit

Window Seat staff and cohort members will be engaging the public creatively in what we're learning through the Pride Storytelling Project inside Capital City Pride’s Queerotica exhibit for Spring Arts Walk.

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Workshops

We offer workshops on oral history, multimedia storytelling, organizational storytelling, community-building, and media literacy. All workshops are custom designed to meet your needs. Connect with us to further a shared goal or vision.

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Community Narratives

Our ongoing community oral history and storytelling projects or "Community Narratives" aim to amplify local knowledge, share powerful ideas, and ask what is possible. Join us in storytelling community!

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Cultural Documentation & Research Services

We facilitate community-based oral history, cultural documentation, and participatory action research projects. Let us bring our research skills, processes, and technical know-how to your next project.

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Work with Window Seat Media

We offer tools & story-based processes so that communities can engage with their own stories.

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Community oral history projects:

Pride Storytelling Project

DOCUMENTATION IN PROGRESS 2024-2025. Our LGBTQ+ cohort of narrative changemakers is embarking on a documentation efforts to preserve local Queer history. Join us at events, artist talks, exhibits, workshops, and performances. Apply this summer to join our cohort for year 2 of this project.

Third Spaces

A team of community researchers gathered oral histories in 2023-24 about three local organizing efforts grounded in specific spaces that are important to our collective history in the South Sound.

Stories of Food, Food as Story

A project-based workshop series in 2023 using oral history practices to explore participants histories and cultural heritage through food traditions and local foodways.

The Third Thirty

A community-based oral history project 2018-21 honoring and amplifying the voices of South Sound elders.

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Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 2733, Olympia, WA 98507

Physical Address:

Arbutus Folk School, Eagle's Nest Suite, Second Floor

705 4th Ave E Ste 101, Olympia, WA 98506

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We are a 501c3 non profit organization. We operate with the generous support of our funders, grant providers, project participants, & donors like you.

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