I am invited into a small white tent-like space, within a small room.
There are two chairs inside. One has a piece of paper on it.
Sharon Baker, my host invites me to pick up the piece of paper and peruse the ‘menu’, and to take a seat.
The menu is a list of short phrases – titles – sorted by categories. It is a list of stories – life changing, happy, sad, and so on.
I make a selection from the list of life-changing stories.
Sharon is sitting directly opposite me, a little over a metre away. She has on a set of headphones plugged into a small audio playing device. She turns over the audio player – I assume to locate the correct track. She starts the player.
There’s a moment’s pause. Then Sharon starts speaking a story – someone else’s story, I think. There’s a change in voice tone. There is a switch happening between two speakers or characters. Sharon is allowing her voice to become that of the person (or people) who’s story or voice she is relaying.
When this story finishes, I am offered the selection of a second story. The second story I choose is very different to the first, it seems to be new voices speaking.
The story ends.
There is a moment's pause.
Sharon asks me what I’m thinking. We have a chat about the stories, who’s they were, how this project came about.
A debrief, and a little humanity.
Leaving me with a memorable experience.
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