Nuestras Huellas

An ongoing series of site-specific story walks led by community guides whose stories have been unheard or silenced in our community. Using recorded conversations as research, each community guide works with an expert Listener from The Listeners Project: Queremos Escucharte to devise a personalized route for their walk. At sites along the route, the guide shares important stories from their lives with the walking tour participants. With support and training from the expert Listeners, guides use tools of the theatre, and socially engaged art to create experiences for participants to both hear AND feel the guides lived experiences.

Story walk leaders

Gustavo Reyna

“This place (City Hall) is very meaningful because this is the place where the voices are heard. And where we all should feel that we belong..”

Ericka Richard

“I wanted to feel like I belonged. I wish I would’ve had someone that would've offered me resources from a young age, to be a guide for me as I was growing up in Walla Walla.”

Anyla Dior McDonald

“I was standing in my way because… I didn't want to hear my own voice. So I'm like, “How would I not want to hear my voice? But I want other people to hear my voice?”