Pensacola Speaks, a Project Idea Introduction by Kelli

Kelli Green
Posted: 3/25/2020

Hi there, Kelli Green here !

So, I had been trying to think of a project to expand Voices of Pensacola’s reach for a while. There’s a documentary called , Home of the Brave about Viola Liuzzo’s murder in Alabama during the March on Selma. At one point in the documentary, there is a scene where a Selma museum has a wall of sticky notes where people come in and write what they remembered or what their connection to the march was. There was a wall full of these notes and I got to thinking how great of an idea that was in general.

I started thinking it would be cool to encourage people from our community to tell their stories about anything they deemed important and impactful during their lives in Pensacola. I thought Voices of Pensacola would be a perfect museum to showcase an exhibit like that because it’s the multicultural museum and it is dedicated to the...voices ...of Pensacola! That’s perfect!

I also noticed that the Voices museum just has a lot of potential to be much more engaging for our guests. There’s a stereo to play the music of Devillers street and there’s a projection that can run full time slideshows. There are little rooms with TVs to play footage. All of these things could be amplified and joined with the new ideas we have like a board for notecards or even an mini- archive of stories that remains in the museum for people to flip through.

Now that we’re all confined to our homes, I figured this was a time to flesh out the ideas and writing up plans.

Here's a blog post we found that is good to get people creatively thinking in terms our project ideas. The story telling process, and information gathering is the purpose of this link. Any other views of philosophies expressed by the originators of the post do not necessarily represent the views of the UWF Historic Trust