The Global Arts and Humanities is committed to community-engaged programming that connects communities to shared histories and cultivates cross-cultural dialogue. Central to this work is the understanding that history is a living practice continuously re-articulated across generations. The recursive process through which inherited knowledge is given form could be considered a form of intergenerational composition. As history circulates — through stories, documents, rituals, and everyday practices — it is continually interpreted and transformed. History thus emerges as co-constructed through creative acts that narrate the past and carry it forward.

Supported in part by the Global Arts + Humanities and Bexley Public Library, the “Bigger than Me: My Story, My Culture Intergenerational Heritage Workshops and Children’s Books Publication Series” exemplifies the value of intergenerational knowledge. This program is facilitated by Professor Michelle Wibblesman (Spanish and Portuguese) and Youth Services Manager Julie Perdue (Bexley Public Library). This project empowers children and their families to research and write about family history and reconnect with their cultural heritage. 

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