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Narratives: Doorways to Our Communities
Each year, the Cultural Connections program explores a different cross-cultural theme as a window into understanding our rich cultural diversity in Chicago.
During the 2004–05 program year, Cultural Connections partners explored reasons for cultural difference through the theme of Narratives: Doorways to Our Communities. Narratives are stories of cultural significance, such as myths, legends, folk tales, and epics, shared between peers and passed down through generations. Narratives can be read, performed, or presented. They educate, contribute to the establishment of social rules and values, and often entertain. The content of narratives frequently point to larger cosmological frameworks – ways of understanding how the world works, and the origins of its organization. People find a variety of ways to communicate and capture what is of interest to their communities through oral, written, and other artistic vehicles of knowledge, all of which have narrative threads pointing to broader cultural concerns.
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