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Anne K. Ream, a CSW delegate, speaks on the power and purpose of testimony.
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| Photo: Patricia Evans and Natalie Naccache
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A story changes everything: Join The Voices and Faces Project at a United Nations Commission on the Status of Women side event on 3/12. |
In ways that are truly unprecedented, survivors from across the globe are using their stories to challenge legal and social responses to gender-based violence and other human rights violations. #MeToo is one very important example of a larger movement and historical tradition that is transforming society while contributing to individual healing.
On March 12th, Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream — a member of the Soroptimist International delegation to the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women — will speak on this subject, exploring the ways survivor testimony has transformed the global movement to end gender-based violence. Anne, the recipient of Soroptimist International’s Making a Difference for Women Award, will then be part of a delegate panel discussion moderated by Tina Wei-Kang Pan, president elect of Soroptimist International of the Americas. UN CSW delegates and NYC-based allies are encouraged to attend; this event is open to the public.
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A STORY CHANGES EVERYTHING
Presented by Soroptimist International
Category:
NGO/GO UN partnerships under the service of domestic violence
March 12, 8:30 am
Armenian Convention Centre (Guild Hall)
630 2nd Avenue, NY, NY
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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,
adapted from the book by Anne K. Ream and directed by Ann Filmer (16th Street Theatre, Steppenwolf) features an ensemble of actors and live musical performances inspired by the rock and soul playlist that helped the book’s author heal. "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 and NOW-NYC will follow. Please reserve your tickets today; space is limited.
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
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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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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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