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Writers featured in the Poetry Foundation series curated by Nikki Patin (clockwise from top left): Kay Ulanday Barrett, Tara Betts, Mojdeh Stoakley, Anne K. Ream, Jackson Santy, Nikki Patin, and e.nina jay. |
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How do you survive? Experience this powerful, purposeful Poetry Foundation sponsored project. |
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In 2020 The Poetry Foundation — publisher of Poetry Magazine and one of the nation's preeminent literary organizations — partnered with the Chicago Reader to ask seven spoken word artists and writers to craft short pieces that answer a simple question: What, in the wake of violence or oppression, does survival look like? Curated by writer and spoken word artist Nikki Patin, pieces crafted in response to this more-relevant-than-ever-question speak to the resilience of survivors, balancing hard truths with much-needed hope. Writers and performers commissioned for the Poetry Foundation project include Patin as well as Kay Ulunday Barrett, Tara Betts, Mojdeh Stoakley, e. nina jay, Jackson Santy and The Voices and Faces Project's own Anne K. Ream, whose moving piece, The Natural World, reminds us of all that the elements have to teach us about perseverence. Anne’s poem can be read here.
We encourage you to get to know all of the fierce and inspiring voices above, and check out their pieces in the Chicago Reader. And special thanks to Nikki for being the heart and soul of this project!
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We’re bringing “Your Story is Your Power” to the Kentucky Library Association Conference in September, 2020. Find out more about bringing
our most popular — and now virtual – program to your community!
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The Voices and Faces Project's most popular advocacy training has traveled across North America and Africa. Now it's gone virtual. On September 22nds, "Our Stories Are Our Power" a two hour workshop for those who want to explore the role that sharing our stories can play in changing minds and hearts on social injustices, will travel to the Kentucky Library Association, where Caity-Shea Violette and Marline Johnson will present on behalf of our project,
Email Katie@voicesandfaces.org to bring "Our Stories are Our Power" to your virtual community. We look forward to returning to in-person workshops in the post-pandemic era.
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Why John Lewis matters now, more than ever. Thank you, Jimmie, for your inspiring writing on an inspiring man. |
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In the wake of the death of Congressman John Lewis, author and journalist Jimmie Briggs, the co-creator of The Voices and Faces Project's Testimony & Transformation writing workshop for returning citizens, has written a fierce and necessary Vanity Fair piece. "Why John Lewis matters — now more than ever," is both a tribute to this civil rights icon and a call to action, reminding us that the fight for justice is a living fight, one that we must all be engaged in. We encourage our allies to read and share this piece as we remember the work of a man we all owe a great debt to.
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You did this: Props to our Voices and Faces Project team members who helped make the 2020 World Without Exploitation Virtual Youth Summit such a success. |
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This year, World Without Exploitation took its annual gathering of allies, activists and artists, ages 16 - 28, into a digital space, reaching a national audience of thousands of rising youth. During Equal Not Exploited, the 3rd Annual World Without Exploitation Youth Summit, participants heard from those impacted by exploitation and human trafficking … learned more about its root causes and consequences … and explored new and creative strategies for creating a world where no one is bought, sold or exploited during a two-part youth summit hosted on July 15th and 22nd. We are grateful to The Voices and Faces Project team members who played a critical role in the summit: Deb Andrews, Katie Feifer and Youth Summit presenters Marline Johnson and Anne K. Ream.
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Featured funders: Thank you, Manaaki Foundation and Illinois Humanities Council for recent grants to support our Voices and Faces Project work. |
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| Sue Crothers (far left) and Bill Gee (far right) of Manaaki Foundation at the LEAP launch party with Marline Johnson, Lanise A.Shelley, Kayla Forde, Sola Thompson & Anne K. Ream.
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During these times of pain and change, the support of our funders goes a long way. In July 2020 The Voices and Faces project was notified about two new grants: a general operating gift from Manaaki Foundation and a grant from Illinois Humanities Council that will allow us to create a virtual performance featuring the writing created during Testimony and Transformation, the Voices and Faces Project writing program led by Jimmie Briggs and R. Clifton Spargo. |
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The Voices and Faces Project partners with Rotary International and 3Strands Global to bring our "whole of community" anti-trafficking campaign to Sacramento, CA.
Next stop, your community? |
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| To help in the fight to end human trafficking, Rotary International District 5180 in Sacramento created the largest anti-human trafficking grant/project in the history of Rotary's 100+ years, partnering with 3Strands Global Foundation and The Voices and Faces Project to educate over 60,000 students and 1,500 teachers on preventing and identifying domestic human trafficking, while making over 78 million advertising impressions with the award-winning Ugly Truth ad campaign, created by The Voices and Faces Project. Watch the video to find out more about our Sacramento change-making effort. And remember: our award-winning campaign will be returning to the field in the post-COVID era. To find out more about bringing this effort to your community, email katie@voicesandfaces.org |
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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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