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Kavad
Storytelling is a program comprised of interviews, readings,
educational workshops, online archiving and new creative
writing by Asian American writers. Stories help articulate
our histories; in effect -- help tell us who we are.
The principle aim of Kavad Storytelling is to use stories
to involve multiple generations of Asian Americans in
proactively archiving and responding to our history
as it was and as it is in the making.
In
traditional Indian storytelling, a "kavad"
is a box with panels that unfold three dimensionally
to tell a story. We have chosen the kavad as a metaphor
for this program as it evokes the partnership of generations
of Asian Americans in the telling of the collective
Asian American story.
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