Opportunity for blind and visually impaired youth to share their stories

Through the Light: Profiles in Blindness

Jack Straw Cultural Center is this year’s recipient of the newly created Washington Stories Fund, which supports projects that record and share with the broader community the little-known stories of people or groups whose contributions add to the cultural richness and health of Washington state communities.  

Through the Light: Profiles in Blindness will provide opportunities for blind and visually impaired youth and adults to collect, record, and distribute their rarely heard stories to the broader public.

In this project, visually impaired youth will interview visually impaired adults about their professions, the hurdles they faced, and the successes they have achieved. Blind adults, in turn, will talk with youth about issues that concern them, including assumptions about blindness, and the resulting behaviors of blind and sighted people towards each other.  Project participants will also have opportunities to interact with the general public through a series of conversations at Seattle Public libraries.  Stories will be shared via a webpage with content recorded and produced during the project.

Jack Straw Cultural Center is currently seeking interested blind and visually impaired youth to participate in this project. If interested, please contact Daniel Guenther, engineer, at danielguenther1@hotmail.com, or call Jack Straw Cultural Center at 206-634-0919.

For more information on the Jack Straw Cultural Center, visit www.jackstraw.org.