EngAGE is very pleased to have received a $10,000 California Story Fund grant from the California Council for the Humanities this year to support our project “Talk Story: Democracy – How Immigrant Senior Citizens View American Democracy.” The project seeks to enable seniors to share their stories of immigration and citizenship, fulfilled and unfulfilled dreams of freedom, and the meaning of the power to vote. Participants’ stories will be developed into spoken word pieces and performed, then broadcast via radio this winter.
Talk Story is a personal storytelling, writing, and performance program directed by actor, writer, professor, and writing/performance instructor Alicia Sedwick.
The California Story Fund (CSF) is a competitive grant program that supports community-centered, storybased public humanities projects that contribute to our evolving understanding of California, past and present.
