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Welcome to our
Community Day of Action!
The culminating event of our first Leadership in Storytelling cohort: a live-action roleplay experience set on the shores of the MLK Jr. Regional Shoreline.
Youth storytellers designed and led participants through an immersive fantasy narrative centered on restoring harmony to a mythical shoreline ecosystem, weaving together ecological knowledge, native plants, and radical imagination.
The Quests and Narrative for the Community Day of Action
Assist the Egg Lord (one of the villain NPCs!) by complicating gameplay during an activity.
- Fatimah & Isabella
Find out what happened to the Bird and help heal her with native plants.
- Tristan and Xavier
Find one of the bird’s eggs by following a trail of clues.
- Eiyani & Artemis
Find one of the bird’s eggs and sneak it out from where it is; put it back in the nest
- Jacob & Christopher
Six Quests.
One Mission: Restore the Summer Light Festival
Make the nesting area safe for the eggs by removing invasive species and creating a protective maze/glyph with them.
- Dia & Lyra
Confront the villain with his ecological impact on the shoreline.
- Sade & Emily
Hover over the scenes below to learn about what unfolded on the shoreline...
A group of participants tries the archery activity at the Bard’s Botanica while volunteers in character provide instructions.
Youth storytellers Xavier and Tristan led the group who were on a quest to look for the Arrowhead Beacon and help heal her using what they learned about native plants and shorebirds.
In this first part of the live action role play session, participants learned about each of the quests and decided which ones they wanted to join.
Storyteller Xavier smiles with his group of participants by one of the activity stations.
People got really into the costumes - you can see elf ears, cloaks, and a circlet in this picture!
Led by Save the Bay staff and youth quest leaders Lyra and Dia, participants restored up the Arrowhead Beacon’s environment by removing invasive plants from the shoreline.
A group of costumed participants explored the Bard’s Botanica and examined native plant species that had been harvested by Save the Bay that morning.
The species on the table were Mugwort, Pickleweed, and California Sage. Mugwort and Sage both have medicinal properties, while Pickleweed is edible!
Catch a glimpse of the world we built in motion...
