Madlib a Name Story

Each participant is asked to write and perform their name story—how the name was chosen, how it was given to them, what the process/ritual/ceremony entailed if there was one, etc. To then put these stories in conversation with their questions of legibility and what is asked of our names, participants are asked to recreate these stories as MadLibs, removing crucial details as well as their dead names. We then redistribute the MadLibs and have one person read the script while two (or more, depending on the needs of the story) participants act out the scene on the spot. The rest of us would call out words to fill the blanks, and the actors would improvise our story.