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Anna Fermin, lead vocalist for the staged reading of Lived Through This. |
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Two days and a world of ideas: Join The Voices and Faces Project at Printers Row Literary Festival in Chicago June 8 - 9. |
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| At this year's Printers Row Literary Festival in Chicago—one of the country's largest and longest-standing books and ideas gatherings—an inspired list of writers, opinion shapers and content creators will engage in a series of public conversations with the two-day festival's over 150,000 expected attendees. Notable presenters include Rick Bayless, Eve Ensler, Eve L. Ewing, Valerie Jarrett, Alex Kotlowitz, Chris Ware, and Walton Muyumba. Bonus: a mainstage reading of the theatrical adaptation of Lived Through This, written by Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream and performed by an ensemble of notable Chicago actors (Steppenwolf, Goodman, 16th Street Theatre). The play is set to a rock, hip hop and soul score performed by Trigger Gospel's Anna Fermin.
All festival events are free. So come for the full two days, and make special note of these three Voices and Faces Project must-sees.
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Your Story is Your Power: A Voices and Faces Project writing workshop for youth, ages 13 - 25. |
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The Voices and Faces Project, an award-winning storytelling project, has traveled across North America and Africa to bring its immersive, two-day "Stories We Tell" testimonial writing program to communities across the globe. At this year's Lit Fest, Voices and Faces will debut "Our Stories Are Our Power," a one-hour mini-workshop geared toward youth (ages 13 - 25) who want to use their personal stories to create political change. Poets, fiction writers, spoken word artists, aspiring playwrights and any youth with a story to tell (that's you!) are encouraged to attend. Marline Johnson and Caity-Shea Violette, youth outreach coordinators for The Voices and Faces Project, will run this interactive workshop.
Our Stories Are Our Power
Saturday June 8
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Harold Washington Library Center (Reception Hall)
400 S. State Street
Chicago, IL
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Break Free and Step Into Your Power: Linda Kay Klein and Jamia Wilson, in conversation with Alisa Roadcup. |
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Jamia Wilson, author of Young Gifted and Black, Step Into Your Power: 23 Lessons on How to Live Your Best Life, and co-author of Roadmap for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All, and Linda Kay Klein, author of Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free and founder of Break Free Together discuss the importance of claiming yourself, your body, and your power, moderated by Alisa Roadcup, a Chicago-based advocate for women and girls' rights. Alisa and Linda are both alums of The Voices and Faces Project's "Stories We Tell" Testimonial Writing Program.
Break Free and Step Into Your Power
Saturday, June 8
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Grace Place (2nd Floor)
637 South Dearborn
Chicago, IL |
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A Main Stage performance: A staged reading of the theatrical adaptation of Lived Through This. |
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Part personal history of writer Anne K. Ream's experience rebuilding her life in the wake of violence, part memoir of a multi-country journey spent in conversation with other survivors, the theatrical adaptation of Ream's critically praised book, Lived Through This—adapted for the stage by Ream, Marilyn Campbell-Lowe and Caity-Shea Violette, and directed by 16th Street Theater's Ann Filmer—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: A staged reading of the new play
Sunday, June 9th
3:00 pm
Cindy Prizker Auditorium (at the Harold Washington Public Library)
400 South State Street
Chicago, IL
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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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