SCL is joining with the California Listens project, a statewide media collection effort being sponsored by the California State Library, in their California Wildfires Story Project.  The project is a partnership of the California State Library, StoryCenter and the County Libraries of Santa Barbara, Ventura, Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino.  We are hoping to add to their ambitious collection over this year. 

Stories will be recorded at the Rincon Valley Library on Monday, May 21, from 1:00-6:00 pm. You can reserve a spot at https://www.storycenter.org/sonoma-fire-stories-may2018.

From StoryCenter:

“The 2017 fires wrote a new chapter in the lives of millions of California residents.  The scope, spread and fierceness of  the 2017 fire season, for the residents of Sonoma county; have sharpened our attention to the need to be and stay aware of ways to prepare for, and respond, to the threat of wildfires and other disasters that will surely come in the years to come.

We invite you to come and share a 30 minute reflection and stories about your experience of the fires last year, or in years before.  You can come to be interviewed or bring a friend, family member or colleague to have a conversation about your experiences and the lessons learned from these events. The interviews will be conducted using the Listening Station  recording kit developed by StoryCenter organization based in Berkeley.  Library staff and StoryCenter representatives will assist.  Your recording will be stored as part of the California State Library collection. https://archive.org/details/storycenter.”