Do you want to do your part to create safe communities? Apply to become a community interviewer and collect precious stories. Fill out the application below.
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Our mission with the Oral History project aims to collect and preserve humanity’s stories in order to build connections among people and create radical empathy toward a safe world. Participants will be trained to conduct interviews about community safety. This is a public call for interviewers. We hope to interview city officials, community members, activists, artists, friends, family, and neighbors. We will interview elders and well as children, for an intergenerational collection of perspectives.
Sample questions include:
Tell us the story about a time when you felt safe.
What do you need to be safe?
How might we keep each other safe?
As a community, how do we get to where we want to be?
What is the difference between enforcing the law and public safety?
How might police and community work together to keep each other safe?
These interviews will be recorded and preserved in the Elizabeth Public Library archives for research and public listening, available to all.
As a community, we’ll listen to these interviews, and with these, we will work together to ideate policies that render conditions for safety.
Do you want to do your part to create safe communities? Apply to become a community interviewer and collect precious stories. Fill out the application below.
