Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture Intergenerational Heritage Workshops and Children's Books Series

Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture is an intergenerational heritage workshop series that exposes participants to interdisciplinary research methods empowering children and their families to tell their personal stories within broader family and cultural histories. The workshops bring children and parents/grandparents/other family members together as partners in researching, gathering materials, conducting oral history interviews and ultimately publishing their unique stories as part of a children’s book series that aims to connect children ages 7 and up who are curious to learn more about their family histories or who have grown up away from their countries of family origin with their cultural heritage. The program “teaches on the sly” translating research methodologies into broadly accessible applied practices and approaching collaborative research as quality family time and fun.