In this year’s collection of interactive oral history experiences, we invite you to travel with us as we explore oral history as a way to both create and to examine connections to place and to our history. 

We shared curatorial experiments that ask how stories circulate through space and time and social worlds, who gets to listen and where and how and why. We hosted events around the boroughs of New York City, in churches, apartments, libraries, arts spaces and parks. We gathered online and on the radio and in VR. 

• A language-learning party in Queens
• A walking tour to eat and chat with Sunset Park food vendors
• A virtual reality experience about visually impaired filmmakers
• A dinner party to which you may or may not be invited
• A Dominican-style sala filled with stories of women’s resistance
• An intimate conversation about adoption
• A collaging party to play with archives of Asian American student activism
• A radio show about Lao music and stories
• A listening party with first-generation and/or low-income Stanford alumni
• A virtual exhibit of Covid art
• An encounter with Mexico’s Indigenous art and culture
• A conversational introduction to Lu Chinese cuisine
• A recreation of road-trip storytelling
• A workshop on family history

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All Exhibits

Collaging Asian/American by Solby Lim

Nuestras Raíces | Our Roots by Natalie Naranjo-Morett

Unburdening by Amalia Schwarzschild

Quisqueyanas Valientes by Aya Taveras

FLI from Stanford by Vy Luu

You Are (Not) Invited by Ariel Urim Chung

Wok the Talk by Yu Cui

Memory Tracks by Rattana Bounsouaysana

Eye to I by Chunming Zheng

Language Party by Lindsay Szper

Vender by Robert Carrillo

Artistic In/Hindsight by Yuying Wu

Intergenerational Dis/connections by Ambar Johnson

Heirloom by Auriana Woods