200 Yolo County residents have participated in interviews, images, maps, testimonies, and documents that speak to Yolo's diverse and changing demographics, traditions, and uses of land and water. The stories and images have been compiled into a site-based audio tour of the Preserve and an interactive website (currently under construction) featuring a storymap, digital murals, the audio tour, and an image based timeline. In many ways, the Cache Creek Nature Preserve is a microcosm of California and in telling it's story we are telling the larger narrative of California's dynamic cultural and environmental heritage. Telling and listening to the stories will help us understand where we come from, how we got here, and how we want to shape our social and ecological landscape in the future.
For anyone interested in collaborative media art projects, university-community engagement efforts, or place-based storytelling--this is an event for you!
Special thanks to the project funders: UC Institute for Research in the Arts, Quitálpas Foundation, UC Davis Consortium for Women in Research, UC Davis Humanities Institute, UC Davis Center for Regional Change, UC Humanities Research Institute.
restorerestory.org