Generating collective childhood memories: Storytelling, collage, and the performance pedagogy of creating public memory

In this article, we argue for employing collage in a performance classroom to create connections across difference. In this activity, students engage with peers to create a collaborative collage that reflects both the similarities and differences in childhood lived experiences. Our focus on childhood memory is purposeful, as it allows students to reflect on varied memories, including joy, anger, embarrassment, and sadness. The purpose of this activity is to find community among their peers through generating collaborative collages.Courses Communication as Performance, Storytelling, Communication and Identity, Family Communication.Objective The goal of this activity is for students to collaboratively create collages to make connections across different lived experiences.