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Jeanne De Vita and Larena Patrick, participants in "The Stories We Tell," San Diego 2016. | Photo: Joe Greto
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“Testimony creates community. Voices and Faces can change minds, hearts, and lives.”
— Jeanne and Larena |
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Take part in our first-ever virtual Stories We Tell writing workshop.
Every survivor story has power and purpose. With a focus on memoir, fiction, non-fiction and poetry, The Stories We Tell was created to support those who seek to use writing as a vehicle for personal or political change. This is
an immersive two-day program that is offered over the course of a single weekend, broken into multiple workshop/
discussion periods. During The Stories We Tell, a Virtual Testimonial Writing Workshop, participants will read and discuss testimonial writing, and reflect
on how to share their own stories. The daily schedule will include "free write" sessions that provide participants the
chance to explore their craft and write on their own and in real-time. There will be a daily break for lunch.
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The Stories We Tell
A Virtual Testimonial Writing Workshop
Hosted by The USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
February 20-21, 2021
Applications due 1/19/21
All applicants regardless of region are encouraged to apply
Email janet@voicesandfaces.org with questions.
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Meet our Stories We Tell co-creators |
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Workshop Instructor R. Clifton Spargo is a novelist and cultural critic who teaches creative writing at Yale University. An alumnus of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is author of the novel Beautiful Fools, which Pulitzer Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer describes as a "marvel of a book," as well as award-winning stories published in The Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review and other publications. Clifton's essays on literature, music, and culture have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Huffington Post and The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. An expert in ethics, testimony, and Holocaust studies, he is a former fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and author of two books of literary philosophy on ethics, mourning, and the cultural memory of injustice.
Workshop facilitator Anne K. Ream is the founder of The Voices and Faces Project, an award-winning storytelling project, and the author of Lived Through This, her critically praised memoir of a global journey spent listening to gender-based violence survivors, which is currently being adapted for the theatre. Anne's writing has appeared in The New Republic, Los Angeles Times, The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, Washington Post, and elsewhere. A founding board member of Art Works for Change and an advisory board member of RAINN, the country's largest anti-sexual violence organization, Anne is also the founding co-chair of World Without Exploitation, the national coalition to end human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
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What can these change creators teach us about meeting people where they are? Everything.
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In The Movement is the Message: Meeting people where they are & breaking through ideological barriers, a January 14th Now & Next Speakers Series presentation, author, activist and Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream will consider new strategies for using our personal stories to create political change … explore ways that language and word choice can open audiences up — or shut them down — in our politically polarized era … make the case for discovering your own, truly unique “change style” … and remind us that the fight for joy is a critical element of the fight for justice.
She’ll also speak to lessons we can learn from iconic movement leaders and opinion shapers (Bob Dylan, Dolores Huerta, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr), contemporary change creators (novelist Dorothy Allison, comedian Trevor Noah, global hip hop star Sister Fa), and the international community of gender based violence activists Anne has collaborated with through her work with The Voices and Faces Project.
Join us as we kick off World Without Exploitation’s 2021 Now & Next Speakers Series with a presentation that will be timely, necessary and thought-provoking.
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Storming the Capitol: A vital Vanity Fair essay by our colleague Jimmie Briggs. |
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| 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 we encourage all of our allies to read, one that considers how different the police response would have been to the siege on the Capitol if the rioters were People of Color. Thank you, Jimmie, for using your words and wisdom to call for vital, political change and an America that is truly anti-racist. You inspire us. |
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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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