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| On Voice features conversations with (l to r): Mikhail Fiskel, Anne K. Ream, Sandra Alfaro, Amanda Delheimer, Megan Stielstra |
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How do you want to use your one, brilliant voice? |
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In "On Voice," an all-new podcast produced by DDB Chicago, strategists Kevin Richey and Milo Chao explore the concept of voice: What it is, how to find it, and how to make it matter.
In a series of conversations with luminaries from a range of creative fields, Milo and Keven gain perspectives on these questions, with the end goal of supporting listeners in finding and amplifying their own narrative and storytelling skills. Season One of "On Voice" introduces us to 5 storytellers who are using their voices in compelling ways: Second Story Artistic Director Amanda Delheimer, Tony Award winning sound designer Mikhail Fiksel, author and Northwestern University Press editor Megan Stielstra, DDB Chicago CEO Sandra Alfaro, and Anne K. Ream, founder of The Voices and Faces Project, whose episode explores the ways our global testimonial writing program is creating change, how storytelling can be politically transformative, the reason that passionate readers are often the best writers, and why nothing makes a day better than rock 'n' roll.
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The Voices and Faces Project's award-winning testimonial writing program travels to Sojourner Peace Center in Milwaukee, WI.
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In June, The Stories We Tell, The Voices and Faces Project's two-day testimonial writing program for survivors of gender-based violence and other social injustices, traveled to Sojourner Peace Center to train our newest cohort of social justice storytellers. During The Stories We Tell we read and discuss culture-changing literature and representation… take part in a series of innovative, real time writing exercises… share creative work in moderated, trauma-informed feedback sessions… and strategize on how to use our personal narratives to create political change. Led by novelist and Yale University creative writing instructor R. Clifton Spargo and moderated by Anne K. Ream, our award-winning writing program has been offered on four continents, and graduated over 1300 writers. Thank you, Sojourner Peace Center, for partnering with us to create change through the power of story.
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Calling all writers and poets: We’re writing a new story about mass incarceration. Submit your work today!
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The Louder Together team at The Voices and Faces Project is seeking submissions for "Telling a New Story About Mass Incarceration," a crowdsourced poem that will feature the voices and testimonies of returning individuals and citizens (formerly incarcerated persons of any immigration status), currently incarcerated persons, and those negatively impacted by the criminal justice system in the United States of America. We welcome submissions that speak to the racial, economic and social injustices that have contributed to the crisis of mass incarceration in our nation.
Submissions that speak hard truths are especially encouraged. But your poem can also focus on your hopes for your community, your solidarity with others negatively impacted by the criminal justice system, and the things you have learned on your personal journey.
We cannot wait to read your submission, and are thankful to the Illinois Humanities Council for their ongoing support of our Voices and Faces Project work. Submissions are due by July 15, 2023.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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GIRL, POWERED:
A Printers Row Lit Fest event
A moderated conversation by Anne K. Ream, featuring novelists Ruchira Gupta and Nami Mun
September 11, 2023
Chicago, IL
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WITNESS, THIS:
The Broken Quartet performs a benefit concert for The Voices and Faces Project/Center for Story & Witness.
September 15, 2023,
Chicago, IL
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CHANGING THE NARRATIVE ON SEX TRAFFICKING:
A conversation with Anne K. Ream and Brenda-Myers Powell and Lisa Bownds
The Laura Bush Institute for Women's Health Conference
October 13, 2023
Amarillo, TX
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CREATING CHANGE:
A storytelling workshop for educators, advocates and service providers led by R. Clifton Spargo
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Nellie's Shelter and The Redwood
Toronto, Canada
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THE STORIES WE TELL:
A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence
Moderated by R. Clifton Spargo and Anne K. Ream
October 19 – 20, 2023 & October 21 – 22, 2023
Nellie's Shelter and The Redwood
Toronto, Canada
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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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© 2023 The Voices and Faces Project
All rights reserved
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