Community Heritage Projects
Imagine this real life example happening in your community.
It’s Thursday evening. In a local hotel conference room sits a sell out crowd of 220 people. There is an excited buzz in the room. Tickets were sold for fifty dollars a piece. Proceeds are going to a local non-profit organization. Everyone has gathered this evening to watch the first ever showing of a ninety-minute documentary about their community. The lights are dimmed. The film starts.
If you’ve ever sat on folding chairs for any length of time, you know that they are not comfortable. Yet, everyone in the room is sitting perfectly still, enthralled by what they are watching. They see friends, neighbors and people they’ve never met weave the tales that make their community unique. History unfolds. Fellow citizens laugh with each other and gasp in awe as they learn of unknown events that shaped the town. Neighbors even cry together.
When the lights are back on, strangers across the table look different, friendlier somehow. A conversation is struck up about the place they call home. Partnerships form. Individuals start to see the town no longer as just bricks and mortar, but as the sum of its people. They even want to get involved in local projects and volunteer for service organizations. The past is made current and the future’s potential appears within reach.
As viewers are leaving the hotel, chatting and reminiscing, they purchase DVD copies of the documentary to watch again and again – and to share with others. The goodwill of the community spreads as it never has before.
By remembering and preserving your community’s heritage, you guide your community’s future!
To learn more ways your community can benefit from sharing its heritage, contact Christopher Davenport
Imagine this real life example happening in your community.
It’s Thursday evening. In a local hotel conference room sits a sell out crowd of 220 people. There is an excited buzz in the room. Tickets were sold for fifty dollars a piece. Proceeds are going to a local non-profit organization. Everyone has gathered this evening to watch the first ever showing of a ninety-minute documentary about their community. The lights are dimmed. The film starts.
If you’ve ever sat on folding chairs for any length of time, you know that they are not comfortable. Yet, everyone in the room is sitting perfectly still, enthralled by what they are watching. They see friends, neighbors and people they’ve never met weave the tales that make their community unique. History unfolds. Fellow citizens laugh with each other and gasp in awe as they learn of unknown events that shaped the town. Neighbors even cry together.
When the lights are back on, strangers across the table look different, friendlier somehow. A conversation is struck up about the place they call home. Partnerships form. Individuals start to see the town no longer as just bricks and mortar, but as the sum of its people. They even want to get involved in local projects and volunteer for service organizations. The past is made current and the future’s potential appears within reach.
As viewers are leaving the hotel, chatting and reminiscing, they purchase DVD copies of the documentary to watch again and again – and to share with others. The goodwill of the community spreads as it never has before.
By remembering and preserving your community’s heritage, you guide your community’s future!
To learn more ways your community can benefit from sharing its heritage, contact Christopher Davenport