Story Cycle
Please note: As of February 2023, the Story Cycle has been retired. A professor of Anthropology at UF currently owns the body of the Story Cycle with the intention that they will use it to capture stories for academic purposes. If you see the Story Cycle out and about, we encourage you to share your story, however we are no longer involved with its operation.
The Story Cycle was Gainesville’s first, and possibly the world’s first, Storytelling Bicycle. Self Narrate biked it out to different events in downtown Gainesville, capturing our city’s stories.
The Story Cycle was essentially a room on wheels. Our storytellers stepped into the bike and shared their stories. A camera was built into the Story Cycle to record each one. Our goal was to create a library of Gainesville’s stories.
A huge thank you went to Alyson Larson. Alyson conceived of the bike, proposed it to Self Narrate, and made it happen. This truly would not have existed without her vision and direction. She built it with Gainesville in mind and involved several community members in its production, including the Freewheel Project, Joel Hackman, Jesus Martinez, and Lyon Duong. Thank you all for your contributions!
The Story Cycle was featured in the UF Homecoming Parade n 2019 alongside the City of Gainesville’s “Gainesville150!” float
STORIES
GAINESVILLE150 STORIES
From 2019-2020 the City of Gainesville engaged in Gainesville150! to commemorate the 150th anniversary of its incorporation.
We recorded nearly 100 stories over the course of the year as part of the Gainesville150 project. Click here to watch them all!
TEDxUF 2019 STORIES
We captured nearly 40 stories at TEDxUF 2019! Click here to hear them all, as we release them!
Decolonizing Representations
The Story Cycle has been used to capture many stories for the Decolonizing Representations series at UF.
