Programs

Palo Alto Teens Capture and Preserve Our History

March 12, 2023
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto

Our March PAHA program will be a presentation by members of the Palo Alto Museum's Teen Council—a dedicated group of local high school students who since 2019 has been volunteering their time and talents to capture and preserve Palo Alto history. Working with various local organizations, including PAHA, the Teen Council provides new insights into how to view and document our local history.

Examples of projects the Teen Council have worked on are the Palo Alto Time Capsule, promotions about learning Palo Alto history during the COVID lockdown, and creating self-guided walking tours of Palo Alto that explore historic structures and businesses in our community.

In conjunction with the Palo Alto Museum, and with help from video production professionals and oral history experts, the Teen Council also began a project of recording oral histories. This video documentation brings a human scale to Palo Alto’s history.

The Teen Council's newest project is an "Object Memory" project celebrating Palo Alto's culturally diverse and dynamic community by collecting images of sentimental objects that symbolize a family's cultural experiences. This project is designed to demonstrate that cultural diversity has helped to shape and enrich the Palo Alto community.

Join us on March 12th at 2:00 pm to learn more about these wonderful programs Palo Alto teens are creating to preserve the long and diverse history of Palo Alto.

May 7th and June 7th, 2023

Please check back later for more details.