 What I was surprised is to find out how much knowledge and how much storytelling is part of this community You know, we kind of just brought it out of them. So it's like we're not innovative We're not doing anything you really the whole point is like Kimberly said it's just to like sit down with these people and find out Who they are and what's their story, you know The project is called the Eastside San Antonio the future and back and it's a community-based Storytelling project. It's a multimedia art installation that includes a little bit of everything from audio video and and photography the idea came from creating a project with not any particular community in mind other than a Community that we we thought deserve to Have their story a little more Brought out from underneath and since we work here in the east side as south was workers union We thought well, you know, we could just start here I mean we're already here and we're not really too in tune with With a lot of the community are here So we thought what better way to like build bridges and then get to know the people that are around us every day Actually, we got together and we brainstormed and we just like threw a bunch of ideas together Really and then whatever we thought of we went out and did You know, there was no hesitation about what we did. We just went out and we talked to the people What was the hardest part about Deciding who's gonna do the interviews Like Frankie, are you gonna do the interview? He's like no, I'll hold the camera So I'm like Kimberly are you gonna do the interview and they're like Deja. I'm like, okay So I asked a question sometimes and we'll like trade off other times. How did you know what questions to ask? I? Really didn't you just really let them talk You know what you want them to tell their story and I really asked them questions So you just kind of like build off what they were saying. I think pretty every story was pretty unique Yeah, and I think it depends on the listener and the person that really gets connected But I think it was a good opportunity for us to really learn and Build our experience The thing that surprised me the most was just to hear stories about segregation in San Antonio and Because you know living here We never really think of our own cities as being you know cities that were a part of that And just to hear people's experiences and you know There's the stories that were passed on to them from their families of their experiences growing up in segregated San Antonio That was just really surprising to me And I was just I felt that we were I felt really happy to get those stories because I feel like they're very important And I feel like you know, you know in classrooms We should study more regional history as well as you know the broad history of our country So I was really happy to get and surprised to get those stories It was also for me To see a lot of the historical buildings that no longer exist and have become abandoned or have been empty lots I think for me that's something that Really, you know resonated with me because I could see people still congregating in those area like the Ritz Theater It's still a place where people play at all or people you know hang out and play dominoes It was really really all the people that we've come across have just been very inspirational What do you think? History is so important to I think because it's one of it's very deep and rich And I don't know if there has been an outlet for such a history to be told or given a platform for the people To actually speak so I think it was a matter of time. I think the community has felt very Neglected and if you speak to a lot of the elders most of them Haven't really gone out of the community a lot of people stay within it and have a rich history of just the block in the neighborhood There's a lot of neighborhood associations and people are constantly You know congregating and talking about the the troubles that are going on The exhibit will be up till December and December 1st it comes down and We do have a tumbler blog ESide project ESideSAproject.tumbler.com Yeah, ESideSAproject.tumbler.com. It's a community-based project, so we don't own it It belongs to the people who we you know interviewed and took pictures Yeah, support local I mean obviously we're in the east side here, but you know support your local businesses You know like take a venture out you know go to Public spaces go to parks and interact with people because as a city we're a whole I know that we're huge Yes, you know we're split up into north southeast west side, you know, but it didn't used to be like that You know and I think that it just takes Not it's not going to take a website and it's not going to take a picture It's going to take people like to physically go into these spaces and vice versa