This 1.5-hour-long Zoom kickoff event — offered remotely to accessibly bring together diverse Marion County communities & participants — will introduce the wider Marion County community to Marion Voices’ Marion County Cultural Heritage Assets Mapping (CHAMP) Project: sharing project methodology, goals, & the core program team to the community, & collaboratively planning for our upcoming cultural heritage assets mapping sessions across Marion County cultural & geographic communities in the Spring of 2024.

Combining a hands-on public humanities introduction to the rise of cultural heritage assets mapping across disciplines as a transformative mode of community-engaged, participatory story-sharing — with case studies & examples from communities around the country — with live opportunities to practice cultural heritage assets mapping, our session will ready our Marion Voice audience & new communities for our CHAMP work, while launching into the work of mapping & building directories of Marion County’s diverse cultural heritage resources. For new audiences, the session will also briefly introduce the work of Marion Voices Folklife + Oral History: Marion County’s countywide public folklore, cultural arts, & public history for justice organization.

Participants should come ready to reflect on their own traditions & cultural landscapes, & to share cultural resources & annotate maps in small breakout rooms or collectively. No prior assets mapping experience necessary!

This event was funded in part by an Ohio Humanities Ignite Grant.

Curious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!