Danielle: Okay, so we are recording. Okay. So my research project is an audio walk of the Africville, Nova Scotia site. The project itself aims to merge oral histories of former Africville residents with an interactive place-based walk. By studying how former residents remember their community and the aftermath of displacement, this project is aimed to situate Black experience in the white colonial heritage of the city. [ALARM]. And that's it.

Jaime: Sixty more seconds for drawing, then.

Jaime: Alright, time's up! Danielle, go ahead and choose us.

Danielle: Ona, you want to go first?

Ona: Sure. So, I put some little houses to represent Africville and then walking through it with sound. These represent the different stories that have not been represented and so that are brought out in this walk.

Danielle: Oh, I love it! That's such a cool way to visualize it. Okay, Regan?

Regan: Okay, so, we have someone telling their oral history of their experience in Africville, so this is like the geographic space, and we have love but also like heartbreak and then two people to show that there was a multitude of paths and experiences that connect them but it also kind of represents the audio walk situation.

Danielle: I like how there's the theme around circles - cyclical, bringing it back. Sarah, you're next on my screen.

Sarah: So I did all of my sound-based imagery comes back to these little music notes but I did these as like the oral history and the audio recording throughout the walkway and then I kind of borrowed Regan's pin-points earlier to show stops along the way, stops of memory, and what I did is I have some bigger, more prominent ones and I also had these small, really far away ones to show the fragility of oral history and the stories that will come out of those interviews as people are telling them but they're not necessarily the stories that will be the forefront of their mind when they think of the participating.

Danielle: Yeah, that's so thoughtful, I like how there's a depth-percetion too. Sammy, you wanna go?

Sammy: yes, sorry my door got rung at the most inopportune time. Basically I had someone walking on the ground that says Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, but then the most immersive experience as well as the oral histories are making the space and reinserting the narrative, reinserting Africville.

Danielle: Yeah, yeah, like yeah, that's so cool, the built environment thing too is really interesting because it's a part of like, reinserting the narrative into the site and it's a huge issue/aspect to that. Jaime?

Jaime: Cool, I, so for yours I drew a headset with some noise and words coming out of it, and then that's supposed to be Nova Scotia but I clearly don't know my geography very well, and then Africville is the tip, and the cord leads into the walking path, and it's green because I know part of Africville is now a park as part of that gentrification, and that's my drawing.

Danielle: Awesome, yeah, if ever you need to draw Nova Scotia, just think of a lobster claw - that's really what it looks like. Amazing, Meranda?

Meranda: So I have water up here, for Nova Scotia, and then down here we have locality, and place, which is meant for Africville, and then we have two little folks who are listening to the audio tour but also thinking about memories and sharing them in an oral history so kind of like the shared participation element all around.

Danielle: Yeah, huge colloboration is huge and I have no idea hwo to visualize that and so thank you for doing it for me. [Laughs]. Wylla, would you like to go next?

Wylla: I also wasn't sure how to visualize this, so I just ended up starting with the audio thing and then just did Black Lives Matter, yes, still, and then Africville to be specific because my other one was the same but it was because it's so important and that's why I wanted to stress the still because that's the energy I felt I just didn't know how to draw it, so you're welcome.

Danielle: Oh yeah no, huge, that's another thing what's going on the ground right now with people that I went to school with, there's a huge uproar in heritage stuff and also like police brutality issues and so yeah you're totally on the money. Natalie?

Natalie: Okay so I drew a footprint or a couple because you talked about multiple memories and disjointed and different pathways and experiences of Africville, and then I wrote memories and community and stories and I guess it's cyclical in a sense and thinking about how your project is community-based too.

Danielle: Cool, you guys are so talented! Okay I think Chloe you're the last, but not the least - go for it.

Chloe: Alright, here's my drawing, so I have all the people on the audio walk some with the little headphones and sound coming out and overtop of everything I have the little memory bubbles to show community memory as the focus and that's throughout the whole walking tour and then a little compass showcasing it's situated in the East coast.

Danielle: Amazing, okay, great. So I think that's it, shall I stop the recording? Cool.