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Molly Boeder Harris, a graduate of our pilot Stories We Tell workshop at the
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We’re bringing our award-winning storytelling workshop to Milwaukee. Apply today. |
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| The Stories We Tell, The Voices and Faces Project's immersive, two-day testimonial writing program, was developed to help those who have survived or witnessed gender-based violence or other human rights violations use their stories to call the public to greater compassion and — most importantly — social action.
During the writing workshop, participants discuss examples of world-changing testimonial writing from various social movements and historical moments and take part in a series of innovative, real-time writing exercises. We seek to support emerging and established writers, activists, and direct service providers as they think about what testimonial writing is, and why it matters. We help workshop participants imagine how they can most effectively carry forward the work of witness. Above all, we encourage the creativity of our participants, leading them to find new sources of personal and political power within themselves and their poetry, memoir, fiction, spoken word or creative non-fiction.
Applications for our workshop are due by Friday, August 30th.
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The Stories We Tell:
A testimonial writing workshop
September 21-22, 2019
10am-5pm (Saturday) • 11am-5pm (Sunday)
Hosted in partnership with the LOTUS Legal Clinic
and Wisconsin Humanities Council
at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee
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Join The Voices and Faces Project at Time for Equality: The 2019 World Without Exploitation Youth Summit. |
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Why, in 2019, are millions of people across the globe still being bought, sold, and exploited? And what can a new generation of social justice advocates do to change that? We'll explore these questions, and many others, at the World Without Exploitation 2019 Youth Summit at the Brooklyn Historical Society on July 26th, 2019. This day-long, youth-driven, survivor-centered summit will feature panel discussions, strategic storytelling workshops, and advocacy trainings for activists and artists, ages 16-28. Voices and Faces Project member Caity-Shea Violette will be presenting at the summit, co-sponsored by Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, NOW-NYC, LIFT, Rights4Girls and The Voices and Faces Project.
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Testimony and Transformation: Our newest Voices and Faces Project writing program receives a grant from the Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities. |
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The Voices and Faces Project has received a new grant from the Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities, made possible by the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities (@safeandpeacefulchi), to conduct Testimony and Transformation: Telling a New Story About Mass Incarceration.
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. The workshop will provide an opportunity for returning citizens to reflect on their experiences of incarceration and shape those experiences into story, and to use their personal testimonies to call for political change.
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.
Testimony and Transformation — a collaboration of The Voices and Faces Project, Brothers Standing Together, and The Goldin Institute – will be held in the Fall of 2019. The project is also supported by an Envisioning Justice Community Grant from Illinois Humanities. We are indebted to the team that conceived it: Jimmie Briggs, Anne K. Ream, Travis Rejman, Brother Raymond Richard, and R. Clifton Spargo. |
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Thank you, Lit Fest: Our staged reading and storytelling workshop makes an impact at Chicago's largest literary and ideas festival. |
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At this year's Printers Row Lit Fest — the Midwest's largest books and ideas festival — over 100,000 attendees spent two days immersing themselves in all things literary, including a staged reading of Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream's critically-praised memoir, Lived Through This, and a youth-targeted writing seminar, "Your Story Is Your Power," presented by Marline Johnson and Caity-Shea Violette. We are grateful to Lit Fest founder Bette Cerf Hill for her steadfast support of our Voices and Faces Project efforts, and especially grateful to the presenting partners who helped make our staged reading so successful: Between Friends, Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, Chicago Foundation for Women, Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network, Goldin Institute, LOTUS Legal Clinic, Traffick Free, UNICEF USA, Women Employed and World Without Exploitation. |
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The power of The Prosecutors: A public radio conversation worth hearing (and sharing). |
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| A scene from The Prosecutors. |
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Last month, Public Radio's Worldview team met with a group of Chicago-based human rights activists, artists, lawyers, social workers, and psychologists — including Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream — as they watched and discussed scenes from The Prosecutors, a powerful documentary focused on those who seek justice for victims of sexual violence in conflict zones. Directed by Leslie Thomas, who runs ArtWorks for Human Rights and is a close Voices and Faces Project ally, The Prosecutors is a film that challenges us to think in new ways about how we address gender-based violence in conflict zones, even as we confront the epidemic of violence against women here at home.
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| Support The Voices and Faces Project’s Stories We Tell Scholarship Fund. |
| We've launched 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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