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We're not waiting for change, we're working for it: Take part in a Voices and Faces Project narrative advocacy training.
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Our Voices and Faces Project Narrative Advocacy Training Series was created to help allies, advocates, and activists working on a wide range of social justice issues think in new ways about the power, purpose, and ethics of storytelling. Training participants consider how language and word choice can help us break through ideological or partisan barriers, discuss the best ways to share the stories of injustice they have witnessed, and reflect on which stories they seek to tell in their work. Our narrative advocacy trainings have been offered in partnership with the Clinton Presidential Center, the Buffett Center for International & Comparative Studies, the Obama Fellows Program, and hundreds of other NGOs — and we're only getting started. Bring one of our immersive trainings to your NGO, or partner with us to create something all-new and just right for you.
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Powerful, purposeful writing: Debuting "Breaking Free," a testimonial writing program for survivors of religious trauma.
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In March, The Voices and Faces Project piloted its newest testimonial writing program, "Breaking Free," a workshop created for persons who have been impacted by religious trauma and purity culture. Our end goal? To support emerging and established writers and activists seeking to give voice to the oppression or violation they have lived through or witnessed in their religious or spiritual communities.
Over 16 fully scholarshipped writers traveled to our offices at Simmons Center for Global Chicago to take part in this immersive, two-day writing workshop developed in alliance with novelist R. Clifton Spargo, a graduate of the acclaimed Iowa Writers' Workshop and lecturer in creative writing at Yale University. Discover all of our available Voices and Faces Project testimonial writing workshops, and watch this space for details on our next "Breaking Free" workshop (coming Fall, 2024).
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HERE TO BE HEARD:
A concert benefitting The Voices and Faces Project
The Hideout Chicago
May 29th, 2024
CHICAGO, IL
Acts TBA; watch this space.
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DANGEROUS. NECESSARY. NARRATIVE:
The power, purpose and ethics of storytelling in the movement to end human trafficking
A main stage discussion featuring writers Ruchira Gupta, Rachel Moran, Anne K. Ream & Hannah Sward
June 13, 2024
The World Without Exploitation National Convening
WASHINGTON, DC
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JUSTICE & JOY :
The transformative power of storysharing
A keynote presentation by Anne K. Ream
July 10, 2024
Uplift & Unite Conference
The Florida Coalition Against Sexual Violence
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL
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BREAKING FREE:
A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of religious trauma
Fall, 2024 (date TBA)
Simmons Center for Global Chicago
CHICAGO, IL
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Our stories are our power.
At The Voices and Faces Project we’re using them to create change. |
The Voices and Faces Project is an award-winning non-profit storytelling initiative created to bring the names, faces, and testimonies of survivors of gender-based violence to the attention of the public. Through our educational and advocacy trainings, survivor story archive and signature program, The Stories We Tell — an immersive, two-day testimonial writing workshop for those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence or other human rights violations — we seek to change minds, hearts, and public policies through the power of personal testimony. The Voices and Faces Project has been named one of America's Best Charities by the board of Independent Charities of America, and is a registered 501c3 organization.
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