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Healing the world, one story at a time: Our Jewish Women’s Foundation-supported writing workshop series.
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The Hebrew phrase "Tikkun Olam" ("repair the world") has come to connote social action and the pursuit of justice.
And creating a more activist and just world is what The Voices and Faces Project's two-day testimonial writing program for survivors of gender-based violence is all about.Thanks to the generous support of the Ellie Fund at the Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, we will be bringing two “Stories We Tell” writing workshops to the area: one in the fall of 2016 and the other in early January 2017. During each two-day workshop, participants will look back at major social movements and the role that storytelling played in creating them, while looking forward to creating change through their own testimonies.
Email Janet
for details and a workshop application. Thanks to the Ellie Fund at JWF, all accepted applicants will receive full, two-day scholarships.
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Writing Workshop:
Skokie, IL*
October 29-30, 2016
(applications due 10/7)
In partnership with the Illinois Holocaust
Museum and Education Center
Chicago, IL*
January 14-15, 2017
(applications due 12/16)
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Public lecture:
Skokie, IL*
December 11, 2016
2:00pm
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Supported by the Ellie Fund at the Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
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Have a story to tell? #TheStoriesWeTell.
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To deepen the bonds developed during our “Stories We Tell” writing workshop, workshop co-founder R. Clifton Spargo and Voices and Faces Project team members Caity-Shae Violette and Javier Otero created #TheStoriesWeTell. Through our hashtag campaign we’re sharing projects inspired by the writing workshop, introducing workshop alumni from various regions, and inviting the public into a conversation about ending gender-related violence through testimony and storytelling. Share your voice and your truth: include #TheStoriesWeTell in your next tweet. |
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Hot off the press:
The Stories We Tell in JUF News.
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Our signature writing program has been featured on Public Radio, in The Guardian and now in JUF news. In "Writing Their Stories, Reversing the Culture of Silence," journalist Abigail Pickus explores the power and purpose of our Voices and Faces Project program. Read the article here.
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Out of its third printing and into paperback:
Lived Through This. |
Eight years ago, Voices and Faces founder Anne K. Ream and documentary photographer Patricia Evans began a multi-country journey interviewing and photographing a community of sexual violence and trafficking survivors who have been "shaped, but refused to be defined, by their histories of violence." Anne's memoir of that journey, is the result. V-Day founder Eve Ensler calls Lived Through This a book of "Heart-stopping, beautifully rendered stories of survivors powerfully illustrating the notion that when we tell our stories, we change the story."
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We can't do it without you:
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Support our "Stories We Tell" Scholarship Fund.
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Find out more about giving the gift of change by donating to our workshop scholarship fund. Every $500 raised provides a full two-day scholarship for a survivor waiting to take part in our program.
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info@voicesandfaces.org
