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RSVP today for a special World Without Exploitation performance.
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| Anne K. Ream (right), author of Lived Through This, with Kun Kande Balde (left), who is featured in the book. Photo: Natalie Naccache.
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From the page to the stage:
Lived Through This, the critically praised book by Anne K. Ream, has been adapted for the theatre. Join us for a special staged reading in NYC. |
Part personal history of activist and writer Anne K. Ream's experience rebuilding her life in the wake of sexual violence, part memoir of a multi-country journey spent listening to survivors, Lived Through This has been adapted for the stage by Anne K. Ream, award-winning playwright Marilyn Campbell-Lowe, and award-winning new talent Caity-Shea Violette. Directed by 16th Street Theater’s Ann Filmer, the theatrical adaptation of Lived Through This features an ensemble of actors and live musical performances inspired by the rock and soul playlist that helped the book’s author heal. This is a play about the lives we live after saying #MeToo, and the gorgeous, funny, outspoken, all-too human women and men who are living them.
"Lived Through This features heart-stopping, beautifully rendered stories of survivors powerfully illustrating the notion that when we tell our stories, we change the story," says Eve Ensler (author of The Vagina Monologues). This special performance during the week of the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations is presented by World Without Exploitation, in partnership with Women's Media Group and The Voices and Faces Project. A talkback with the book’s author and a cocktail reception hosted by World Without Exploitation will follow. Please reserve your tickets today; space is limited.
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LIVED THROUGH THIS:
A staged reading of the new play
Wednesday, March 13th, 7:30 pm
The Helen Mills Theater
137 W 26th St.
New York NY, 10001
| Testimony and Transformation: Our newest Voices and Faces Project writing program receives a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council.
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| Testimony and Transformation leadership team member Jimmie Briggs.
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Testimony and Transformation: Telling a New Story About Mass Incarceration— a collaboration of The Voices and Faces Project, Brothers Standing Together, and The Goldin Institute— is made possible thanks to an Envisioning Justice Community Grant from Illinois Humanities. The program will bring together 20 previously incarcerated Chicago men and boys seeking to use their stories to change the public understanding of the ways that violence in its many forms impacts victims, families, and communities. During an immersive two-day reading and writing focused workshop, participants will reflect on the ways that “toxic masculinity” shapes social assumptions about men and women, while thinking in new ways about the intersectionality of the social injustices they have lived or witnessed: poverty, homelessness, police brutality, interpersonal and gender-based violence, and mass incarceration. We are grateful to the Illinois Humanities Council for its support of our newest Voices and Faces Project program, and indebted to the team that conceived it: Jimmie Briggs, Anne K. Ream, Brother Raymond Richard, and R. Clifton Spargo.
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| Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream at the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.
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Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream will serve as a member of the Soroptimist International delegation to the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women. During the UN’s ten-day global gathering, representatives of Member States, UN entities, and non-governmental organizations from all regions of the world come together to discuss and debate ways to make the world safer and more just for women and girls. On March 12th, Anne— the recipient of Soroptimist International’s “Women Making a Difference” Award - will be a featured speaker on a panel focused on gender-based violence. Delegates interested in attending can find out more here.
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| Be the change: Take part in a Voices and Faces Project advocacy training in 2019.
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Students at Northwestern University take part in Our Stories Are Our Power, a Voices and Faces Project advocacy training.
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Immersive, interactive, and audience-relevant, our Voices and Faces Project advocacy trainings are customized in partnership with local host organizations, evaluated on an ongoing basis, and continually updated to best address current events and contemporary advocacy challenges. Since the inception of our advocacy training program in 2006, Voices and Faces Project trainers and facilitators have traveled to 48 US states and 4 continents, creating social change every step of the way.
To bring an advocacy training or Voices and Faces speaker to your community in 2019, email Katie@voicesandfaces.org. |
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Support The Voices and Faces Project’s Stories We Tell Scholarship Fund. |
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Today, we're launching a drive to support our 2019 Stories We Tell Scholarship Fund. Every $650 raised provides a full, two-day scholarship to a workshop applicant ready to take part in our groundbreaking writing program. Thanks, in advance, for giving the gift of change.
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