Your COVID Stories - High Desert Museum

Your Stories: Life in the High Desert during COVID-19

Historians look to many sources to understand the past, including stories from people who lived through a significant historical event. Right now, we’re living through a unique and challenging historic moment. You can be part of helping future historians understand this event by telling your story. Museums play an important role too. Museums collect objects and stories, keeping them safe so they can be shared with future generations.

We’d like to learn more about how the COVID-19 pandemic is shaping your life. What is your day-to-day life like during COVID-19? How has your life changed? What are your biggest concerns and fears right now? What unique opportunities have emerged during this time? What do you think will be the long-term effects of this pandemic? How is your experience shaped by the place you call home? For those of you who call the High Desert home, what about your experience is particular to being in this region?

You’re welcome to take up these questions or others and share your responses with us in a variety of formats. You could submit:

An audio or video diary. If you select a video diary, please keep it to no more than around 5 minutes.
A written journal entry or letter.
A recorded interview. You can use your iPhone or Andriod device to record an interview. Here are a few suggestions that may be helpful in guiding your questions.
A photo diary.
A photo of a drawing, collage or other work of art.
A creative writing response, such as a poem or short story.
A photo of an object or set of objects. What object or objects should the Museum collect to represent life in the High Desert during COVID? While we are not accepting physical objects at the Museum or in the mail at this time, we’d love to see a photo of the object or objects that you’d recommend. Please include a few sentences explaining your selection.

Submit your High Desert COVID story here

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Name: *

Email: *

Phone: *

Address: *

Demographic information

Our goal is to collect and share stories from many different groups of people. If you would like, we invite you to share some demographic information about yourself.

Gender:

Age:

Race/ethnicity:

Anything else you’d like to share about yourself:

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Tell us your story

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Alternatively, you may upload your written stories, poems, photos, etc. here.

If you would like to submit a photo diary, please upload up to 10 images here.

You can also record your story to video! Upload it here.

Details on others involved in story

Information about others involved in creating the story (beyond the person listed above):

Participant #1 Name:

Participant #1 Gender:

Participant #1 Age:

Participant #1 Race/ethnicity:

Anything else you'd like to share about Participant #1:

Participant #2 Name:

Participant #2 Gender:

Participant #2 Age:

Participant #2 Race/ethnicity:

Anything else you'd like to share about Participant #2:

Photos of participants:

If you submitted a photo of a work of art or an object the Museum should collect, would you consider donating it to the Museum in the future?

Yes. If so, we may reach out to you using the contact information provided above.
No

Permission

By submitting this information, you’re becoming part of the High Desert Museum’s collections archive. As such, you’re granting the High Desert Museum permission to reproduce, publish, circulate and otherwise use your story, video, image and/or voice recording, as well as for the likenesses of anyone else shown or depicted in these assets, and you’re waiving prior inspection or approval. The above could appear in exhibitions, publicity and/or on the Museum’s digital platforms.

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