November 13, 2008
CALIFORNIA STORIES
Recently, Kim Day of the Pacifica Sharp Park Library received a grant from the California Council for the Humanities to do a 10-week photography documentary project as part of the statewide "How I See It: My Place" program. More than 300 teens in 21 California libraries are exploring, photographing, and writing about their everyday environments in an innovative 10-week program based on the ideas of a Harvard landscape history professor (John R. Stilgoe). The aim of the program is to connect young people to their communities and give them skills in research, writing, photography, and exhibit planning and design. Nine Pacifica teens have planned and organized this exhibit of their work at the Pacifica Sharp Park Library. Some of the work will also be featured on the Council’s Web site. Our teens called the exhibit Pieces of Pacifica. The Opening Reception is this Saturday, November 15 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Pacifica Sharp Park Library, 104 Hilton Way. Please join us as the teens talk more about their experience and hear Fredi Ware tell stories of her childhood in Sharp Park. Refreshments served.
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