The Third Thirty December Story Circle

Sharing Our Stories. Strengthening Our Communities.

If you'd like to join us today, we'd still love to have you! Please email hello@windowseatmedia.org for a zoom link by 1PM today. Event starts at 2PM. 


Beginning in December, we will share excerpts from Window Seat Media's Third Thirty Oral History Project interviews through a monthly virtual story circle. After listening to a short audio story, story circle participants will have opportunity to reflect and share their own stories in response to a quesiton or theme in facilitated large and small group conversations.


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Featured Story & Question


How do we move from fear to courage to action? 


We begin our series in Selma, Alabama (before moving to our experience here in Thurston County) to explore the question, how do we move from fear to courage to action?


We will listen to a theatrical reading of the memoirs of Rose Goodman, Dave Evans, and an unidentified man from California about their experiences participating in the March 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. The March culminated after continued struggle for African Americans to secure the right to vote – despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – and after the murder of Jimmie Lee Johnson, an African American who was shot by a state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a voting rights demonstration in February 1965. This is one of many stories of the African American struggle for equal rights and about the people who came to help in the struggle.


These memoirs were gifted to Lonnie Locke, a Thurston County elder who grew up in Alabama during this time. The memoirs were the inspiration to forge friendships in a collaborative way with community partners to work on Looking Back, Moving Forward. Its mission is to promote dialogue on racism and through taking action eliminate identified systemic racism in our community. Window Seat Media served on the strategy team for the project as a collaborative partner.


This event is presented by Window Seat Media in partnership with Looking Back, Moving Forward. We are grateful to begin our series with this important story. Thank you Lonnie and all our friends at Looking Back, Moving Forward!


Project Funders – We Thank You!


This project is funded by the Thurston County Heritage Grant Program, the City of Olympia, The Freas Foundation, and Humanities Washington and the National Endowment for the Arts CARES Act.

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