WE SHARE THE SAME SKY PROGRAMMING
please reach out for more information and speaking fees: rachaelcerrotti@gmail.com
Storytelling: Presentations, KeyNotes & Lectures
Using photographs, video, audio, archival documents, testimony, and personal stories, Rachael brings We Share The Same Sky to communities worldwide. She retells her grandmother’s wartime story while weaving in her own decade-long journey to retrace it. This presentation ebbs and flows between past and present and brings a contemporary perspective to World War II history while opening up a conversation about the impact our family histories have on how we experience, respond and react in this world.
Age Recommendation: 7-12th Grade, University Students & Adult Education
Time: 60-90 minutes + Q&A time
Tech Required: Multimedia • Available Online
ART-BASED WORKSHOPS: Learning Hana’s Story & our OWn
Rachael became entrenched in her family story because of her grandmother’s archive. Hana left behind hundreds of old photographs, letters, diaries, travel documents, and creative writings. In this art-based family history workshop, Rachael brings that archive (replicated) into the classroom and introduces students to Hana through immersive storytelling that blends history with personal narrative. By the end of the workshop, students retell Hana’s story through scrapbooking, poetry and other creative projects. Students will be educated in the history of the Holocaust and develop empathy for today’s refugees while cultivating a curiosity about their own family history and community.
Age Recommendation: Middle School (but can be adapted for older students)
Time: 3 hours or multiple classes
Tech Required: Multimedia • Art Supplies • Photographs (provided by Rachael)
writing Workshop: Exploring our family history
This workshop is all about our families. Through prompts, text studies, and shared conversation, participants will be inspired to write their own stories. We will ask ourselves questions about perspective, documenting difficult stories, preserving an archive for future generations and how to approach stories that change with time.
Age Recommendation: 7-12th Grade, University Students & Adult Education
Time: 1.5-3 hours oftentimes with multiple sessions
Tech Required: Journals • Available Online
**If you are interested in individual story coaching or for programming about developing your own family archive, learn more here.
workshop: storytelling across generations
These programs are intended to get family members, neighbors, friends and strangers talking across generations. In these programs, young people teach adults about their perspective on the world as much as the adults teach young people. Through prompts, moderated conversation and creative projects, this workshop gets us telling stories across generations. This is a great opportunity for families and communities to begin digging into their own history while developing questions together about where they come from and why it matters.
Age Recommendation: All Ages!
Time: 1.5-2.5 hours or multiple sessions
Tech Required: Journals
teaching the teachers
All retellings of We Share The Same Sky—the podcast, book and exhibition—were created with teachers in mind and come with resources ready to be used in a classroom. Rachael trains teachers how to use the We Share The Same Sky toolkit in the classroom and facilitates discussions that can be recreated with students.
Age Recommendation: Teachers
Time: 2-3 hours (Longer sessions offer more opportunity for teacher’s to engage with one another and practice using some of the suggested classroom activities)
Tech Required: Multimedia • Available Online
Discussion/Book Talk
We Share The Same Sky is a great choice for your book club or podcast club! Reach out to Rachael to have her join online or in-person.
* Price for this program (if online) is simply a donation that helps bring We Share The Same Sky to more students.
* Pay-what-your-school-is-able pricing for teachers who want to bring me into their classroom via Zoom.
Storyteller-in-residence
Want more than one We Share The Same Sky program? Let’s plan a community visit that weaves together the historical, the artistic and the personal. A minimum of three events are required to fit into this model and they can be a mixture of in-person and virtual events. Past programs have been held at Duquesne University, The Peabody Institute Library, The Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio, Temple Israel of Hollywood and others. You will find the three types of programming below. Please email with questions about availability and pricing.