Legacies

Youth/Elder Story Art Projects

VISION
Legacies is a home-town, cross-generational project that honors the important role Elders hold in our culture by celebrating them through Youth generated Story Art Works, culminating in an invaluable community legacy to be exhibited throughout a local region.

MISSION STATEMENT
It is the great task of Elders in any society to pass on the fruits of their accumulated life lessons, embedded within their life stories, to the younger generation. Therefore a mature society always honors its Elders by establishing a way for them to share their wisdom. Without this rite of passage we continue to stumble again and again over ordinary obstacles life presents to us, as well as waste our fore parents' hard earned knowing without even noticing we are doing so. Story Art Readings and Exhibitions are designed especially to bring Youth and Elders together to pass on the Elder's life stories to the Youth through Story Art Works. By doing this, not only can we prevent this social tragedy, we can actually provide a way to preserve and invest our older citizen's rich life experiences in our Youth's budding creativity.

PROJECT OVERVIEW
Legacies next project will bring Solana Beach Youth and Elders together into 25 pairs, during a 9 month period between September 2005 and May 2006. The Elders will share their life stories with the Youth, who will put those stories into mini memoir/collage art books during 4 Saturday book art workshops. These Story Art Works will then be showcased in a city-wide Reading and Exhibit. An Project Publication will be included, which will also then also be used as the basis of a Solana Beach Legacies website and provide a means to share the Elder's stories and Youths' art with the community at large.

Click here to see photos, read the stories, and learn more about this project.

Synergy Art Foundation

251 Barbara Avenue
Solana Beach, CA 92075
U.S.A.

Phone: (858) 509-1155

Email:
nnartd@gmail.com

Synergy Art Foundation is a public charitable corporation classified under Section 501(c) (3), 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.

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