the Story of the Little Stories
With Streaming Tales, we envision the use of objects as anchors for the stories and mediators to travel from one story to another. Objects are connotative devices that revive memories and can be symbolic. They have different uses and, from one culture to another, one object can have very different meanings and values.
The idea is that each participant brings an object carrying a personal meaning. Then they share with others a specific story related to the object. Little by little the stories will weave into each other, creating a network of stories fostered by these objects.
Some possible objects can be: a photograph from a family member, a landscape, a piece of fabric or jewelry that belonged to an ancestor, a sacred object carrying strong spiritual values, a stone or a piece of wood coming from a special place...