Remember Show & Tell from your childhood?
What objects do you hold near and dear to your heart that tell a piece of your own or your family’s personal history?
At our Show & Tales, attendees bring a special photo or object related to the event’s theme and share the story of the thing for 3-5 minutes. The story-sharing brings laughter, tears, camaraderie, and bonding that naturally occurs as people share and others recall similar memories.
Show & Tales are uplifting, fascinating, exciting, fun, friendly, and designed to help preserve our legacy. Don’t get me wrong some tough stuff gets spoken about too!
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Themes (24 so far)
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Each Show & Tale event focuses on a pre-set theme for participants to bring a related ‘thing’ to share stories around. This helps hone the focus and is a great bridge, an icebreaker, which brings unity and common ground to all the participants.
Inspiration for themes is sparked by anything, but often comes from family, friends, colleagues, national holidays, animals, health, or just memories from her youth.
“We may have been strangers, but to some extent we understood each other better, perhaps, then our dearest friends who haven’t experienced such a loss.”
– Allison Gilbert, author, Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive