Created by Dr. Raina Croff, Memory Walks in a brand new staged reading culled from over 400 walking oral history narratives on Black life and aging in Portland which have been collected through the Sharing History through Active Reminiscence and Photo-imagery study (SHARP).

SHARP aims to maintain or improve cognitive health among older African Americans through increasing physical and social activity and is culturally celebratory. Walkers’ neighborhood stories contribute to an oral history digital archive. Memory Walks brings these stories to life through the theater.