Most people have had a meaningful encounter with a stranger. These are usually out-of-the-blue (and sometimes jarring) interactions that come to take on special meaning for at least one of the people involved. The Meaningful Encounters with Strangers Preservation and Reenactment Initiative (MEWS-PARI) has as its goal the preservation and study of such encounters.

To pursue this goal, the Initiative uses two distinct approaches:

   1. the documentation of stories, as they are told by Preservation Assistants like yourself; and
   2. the study of these stories, through analysis and reenactment.

All are welcome to join the Initiative. To participate, volunteer Preservation Assistants can either:

   1. send us a story; or
   2. reenact an existing story of their liking from the Initiative's Archives.

Or they can do both.

For more information on participating, or to view their archive of stories, dramatizations, charts and maps, please visit http://timdevin.com/encounters.html , or email mews.pari@gmail.com .