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Our Find the Right Words workshop team, top row L to R: Marline Johnson, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, Jimmie Briggs, Anne K. Ream.
Bottom row, L to R: R. Clifton Spargo, Nikki Patin, Katie Feifer, Aimee Noffsinger. |
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| Find the Right Words: Our newest storytelling & advocacy workshop series. |
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History's most effective storytellers are also its most strategic storytellers. Consider Reverend King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, in which he connected his hopes for his four children to an American ideal that did not yet exist; or Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers using their testimonies of workplace injustice to power a national grape boycott; or millions of #MeToo stories coming together to create a roar that could no longer be ignored.
Curated by Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream and developed in conversation with Justice For Migrant Women's Mónica Ramírez, Find the Right Words was piloted in 2020. Now this interactive workshop series, with each session led by a different artist, or communications or storytelling strategist, is available to your organization. Each session is 90-120 minutes; timing for the full six part series can be flexible.
| The Find the Right Words Workshop Series. |
Session 1: Your Story is Your Power. Changing minds, hearts and public policies through personal testimony;
Session 2: Your Voice, Your Choice. Mindful media/press engagement;
Session 3: Personal, Powerful, & Political. Crafting a personal essay that creates social change (a two part writing workshop);
Session 4: Personal, Powerful & Political. Crafting a personal essay that creates social change (part two);
Session 5: Meeting People Where They Are. Using language to break through ideological barriers and reach new audiences (presentation and role playing/strategic work session);
Session 6: Louder Together. A poetry writing & spoken word workshop.
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I Am Rural America:
A call for poetry submissions. |
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The Louder Together team at The Voices and Faces Project, an award-winning non-profit storytelling project and testimonial writing program, is joining with Justice for Migrant Women to solicit poetry submissions that speak to the statement "I Am Rural America."
We are seeking poetry that helps us shine a light on outdated notions of who represents rural America…confront the economic, racial, and social injustices too often experienced by immigrant and farmworker persons…and highlight aspects of rural life that are too often ignored by the media and the public. We seek especially to elevate the writing of Black, brown and Indigenous persons, and other communities of color, whose stories are too often disappeared in conversations about rural populations.
We welcome poetry that speaks hard truths. But we also seek writing that focuses on your hopes for a more just and equitable rural America.
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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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