Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research
Life story day
Come and share
your life stories and
join a global story-telling
chain when the Centre for
Life History and Life Writing
Research celebrates the
inaugural annual
International Day for
Sharing Life Stories.
Parallel events to
share and gather life stories will take place in
Africa, Australia, Europe, India and in North and South
America. More than 200 individuals and organizations,
including the British Oral History Society and Studs
Terkel, have endorsed the establishment of this day.
Activities on campus include
Holiday Stories • Seaside Postcards • Love Songs
Mass Observation • Conch Shell • Tibetan Prayer Flag
Turning Point Videos • Detention Portraits • Body Mapping
Political Testimony • Letter in the Attic • Migration
Stories • Oral History of a River • Interview Booth
Friday 16 May 2008, 12–2pm
outside the Gardner Arts Centre
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton
For further information please contact
Margaretta Jolly
or Sam Carroll
T (01273) 873585
T (01273) 876614
E [email protected]
E [email protected]
Centre for Life History and
Life Writing Research
www.sussex.ac.uk/clhr