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Riss Myung, a graduate of our 2021 Stories We Tell virtual testimonial writing workshop, and a student at University of California - Berkeley. |
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❝Amazing writing prompts. Grace in facilitation. A curated community of writers using their words, faces, and voices to amplify stories that need to be heard. The Voices and Faces Project’s writing workshop is powerful…and magical.”
— Riss Myung |
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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, is now being offered online. With a focus on memoir, fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and spoken word, this award-winning storytelling program isn't just about developing writers. It's about creating community.
During each Stories We Tell workshop a cohort of between 13-15 emerging and established writers and activists come together to 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.
Our Voices and Faces Project writing programs have traveled across the North American and African continents, training almost 1000 writers and activists. The virtual edition of our signature writing program is facilitated by Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream, the author of Lived Through This, a memoir of her global journey spent listening to survivors of gender-based violence, and taught by novelist and Yale University creative writing instructor R. Clifton Spargo.
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We couldn't do it without you.
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We are grateful to Courtney and Guy Comer of the Comer Family Foundation, Kemery Bloom of Lakshmi Foundation, and Sue Crothers and Bill Gee of Manaaki Foundation for supporting the development of our virtual Stories We Tell and Up Next writing workshops, and their associated participant scholarship programs. Thank you for helping us create change!
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How did the Voices and Faces Project help you find your voice? Answer that question and be a part of our new social media campaign.
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At The Voices and Faces Project we're passionate about supporting survivors of gender-based violence who are thinking in new ways about using their personal stories to create social change. If you have taken part in one of our Stories We Tell writing workshops or other advocacy trainings, tell us how The Voices and Faces Project helped you find your voice. To be a part of our all-new campaign, submit a short, 15-30 second video responding to the question: How did The Voices and Faces Project help you find your voice?
With your consent, your video will be shared alongside the videos of others who answered the call for our campaign. Our end goals: Driving awareness of our global writing program and advocacy training, while uplifting the powerful, purposeful voices and faces of survivors.
Email kali@voicesandfaces.org to submit your video and to learn more about how you can join us in this effort.
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Creating Change: Testimony & Strategic Storytelling, our collaboration with University of Southern California, enters its second year. |
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Through generous support from the Van Otterloo Family Foundation, and in partnership with USC's Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, The Voices and Faces Project developed Creating Change: Testimony and Strategic Storytelling, a two-part workshop series. With a half-day faculty and social worker-focused training on how to incorporate testimonial literature and the art of storytelling into teaching methodology, and a two-day Stories We Tell testimonial writing workshop for USC students, this innovative series looks at story and its applications with dual audiences in mind. We're grateful to the Van Otterloo Foundation for believing in this vital project. And Annalisa Enrile and the team at USC? On to year three!
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Calling all Stories We Tell alumnae: Take part in our advanced writing workshop for graduates of our signature writing program. |
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"Up Next," The Voices and Faces Project's very first writing workshop for alums of our Stories We Tell testimonial writing program, is an immersive, two-day online workshop. Building on the model of The Stories We Tell, our advanced writing program will take accepted writer-activists even further, through advanced, real-time writing prompts, moderated discussions on craft, exploitation of new mediums for story sharing, and trauma-informed, moderated sessions in which our writers will give - and receive - thoughtful, critical feedback to the work in the room. We encourage all alums of our Stories We Tell workshop to apply; if you have questions about the program please email janet@voicesandfaces.org
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“UP NEXT”
A Virtual Advanced Writing Workshop
June 5-6, 2021
Applications due 5/14/21
Applicants must be alumnae of our Stories We Tell writing workshop.
This is a fee-based workshop with a tuition cost of $500 for the full two day program. Needs-based scholarships are available on a limited basis for accepted applicants.
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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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