The Storytelling Booth is a re-usable portable structure made of interlocking PVC tubing with a cardboard exterior. Participants are invited to write on the outside and enter the booth to tell their own stories on camera.
The idea for the booth grew out of conversations with a small group of parents of young people of color about creating a follow-up of Shades of Ebony, a video made with elementary and middle school youth in 2003. Conversations morphed into the creation of the booth, an evolving storytelling space that we hope builds on itself through use. The community created during the set-up and installation is just as important as the stories collected on video.
The video incudes excerpts from some of the young people who came into the booth the first time it was set up in 2018. Each participant chose a question to respond to. Below are photos of the construction and set up of the booth. (note, the audio is out of sync in this upload… it will be corrected soon.)
