WELCOME TO THE FIRE STORIES PROJECT
In Other People’s Shoes Productions in association with Pacific Clinics is creating a theatre piece to lift up the voices of young fire survivors in our community.
We’re looking for young people 18 or under who are interested in sharing their experiences and feelings in a safe environment. The finished piece will be crafted from excerpts of the stories and voiced by professional actors. Our hope is to provide a way to help our community heal.
Who We Are
In Other People’s Shoes Productions, based in Pasadena, tells imaginative, impactful and artistic stories for young people and families from all walks of life. We work with professional artists to develop stories that are about and for young people. We believe deeply in inviting young people to participate in the creative process by giving feedback on early drafts of each piece. The Fire Stories Project will put their voices at the center by sharing their real experiences directly with an audience.
Pacific Clinics is the leading community-based nonprofit provider of mental health and substance use disorder services. For over 150 years, it has offered a range of high-quality programming to address behavioral health, education, support and social services—all at no cost. Serving more than 100,000 Californians, Pacific Clinics offers hope to all through culturally responsive, trauma-informed and research-based care.
Why should you participate?
We want to give young people the opportunity to have their voices heard, and to share their experiences of a very defining event in our community. Adults have their own experiences and healing mechanisms, but young people’s experiences are unique, and we’d like to capture them and share them. The finished performances will be free to the public so that the entire community can participate.
How it will work:
If you’re interested in participating, fill out the entry form by August 26, 2025 and answer a few questions so that we might learn a little about you. Our team will then choose approximately 15-18 people to move on to the next phase, which will include an interview with more in-depth questions. We will then weave the stories together into a theatre piece for actors to voice, keeping the individual participants anonymous. We will contact you by September 10 to let you know if you’ll be asked to participate in the next phase.
Feel free to peruse our website for more information about us!.
The Fire Stories project is supported in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.
