Pride Storytelling Project

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 in 2026!

In partnership with Capital City Pride, our current documentation effort is to gather local LGBTQIAA2S+ history. Our cohort of narrative changemakers learn interviewing techniques, gather community stories, and in year 2, activate the stories through public programming. Learn more about their plans for the 2025-26 cohort year and check back here for stories soon.

Contact Memory Activist, Elaine Vradenburgh, elaine@windowseatmedia.org if you are interested in participating or collaborating.

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January 12, 2026

The 2024-25 Pride Storytelling Project Cohort designed an exhibit as a way to begin to share stories from the collection. The exhibit was on display at the Capital City Pride festival in June 2024 and has been available at subsequent community events, including during a haircut-a-thon hosted by Shear Barber on behalf of the project and at the Olympia Farmers Market. Each panel features a community member and provides a bit of context about their story. Link to the short excerpt from their interview by scanning the QR code or clicking on the link below in Sound Cloud. Check back for future opportunities to see the exhibit in person and for a new and expanded exhibit that is underway for a June 2026 launch! The complete archive of stories will be available later this year.

Community oral history projects:

Pride Storytelling Project

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 in 2026!

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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