2011 21/05

Memoro Project: The Bank of Memories

Memoro Project

The Memoro Project website

Sometimes old people are annoying. Sometimes young people are too. But generally old people are bloody interesting. They have lived through things that luckily for me I can only try and imagine. They have stories of experiences that I could sit and listen to for hours. And often a world view that is just plain enlightening. So much personal history to cherish and retell.

Well luckily for us that’s what Memoro Project is trying to do. The ‘Bank of Memories’ is a non-profit project set up in Italy in 2007.

“…dedicated to collecting and divulgating short video recordings of spontaneous interviews with people born before 1940.”

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