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| The Lived Through This cast and creative team, from left to right.
Top row: Aaron Christensen, Anna Fermin, Caity-Shea Violette, Anne K. Ream.
Middle row: Marilyn Campbell-Lowe, Deanna Meyers, Michelle Courvais, Jasmine Bracey.
Bottom row: Tony Wittrock, Rusty Schwimmer, Selene Perez, Ann Filmer. |
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Join us June 9th as Lived Through This makes its public Chicago debut
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| Part personal history of activist and writer Anne K. Ream’s experience rebuilding her life in the wake of sexual violence, part memoir of a multi-country journey spent listening to survivors, Lived Through This has been adapted for the stage by Anne K. Ream, award-winning playwright Marilyn Campbell-Lowe, and award-winning new talent Caity-Shea Violette. Directed by 16th Street Theater’s Ann Filmer, the theatrical adaptation of Lived Through This features an ensemble of actors and live musical performances inspired by the rock and soul playlist that helped the book’s author heal. This 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 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 Printers Row Lit Fest—one of North America’s preeminent book fairs—is presented by Women’s Media Group and The Voices and Faces Project in partnership with our community allies. A talkback with the book’s author will follow the program.
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LIVED THROUGH THIS:
A staged reading of the new play
Sunday, June 9th, 3:00 pm
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
at the Harold Washington Public Library
400 S. State St.,
Chicago, IL 60605 |
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The Voices and Faces Project is partnering with UNICEF on the Unite for Children Summit. See you there! |
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From the conflict in Syria to gang violence in Chicago to human trafficking in the US and beyond our borders, children have too often suffered the consequences of our actions. Despite these challenges, it is not too late to ensure a better future #foreverychild. UNICEF’s Unite For Children is a great place to explore these challenges, and take a deep dive into the pressing issues impacting children today. And at this year’s May 17 summit, Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream will join UNICEF’s Hillary Larman and SweatLife's Kathy Lai in a panel discussion on the role that storytelling can play in the fight to end human trafficking and exploitation. Check out the inspired agenda for the full day, and register to be a part of this year’s summit. |
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Creating content that creates change: The Voices and Faces Project will moderate a panel discussion during Now & Next, The World Without Exploitation National Convening. |
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What challenges do we face when creating art that speaks to violence we’ve lived or witnessed? Why is storytelling so vital to the gender justice movement? And what role can the private sector play in creating a new narrative about commercial sexual exploitation and gender justice? During “Creating content that creates change: Art, media, and film as tools for transforming minds and hearts on commercial sexual exploitation” — a featured panel discussion at Now & Next: The 2019 World Without Exploitation Convening May 22 - 23rd — panelists Kathy LeBackes (Wise Entertainment), David Krupp (Billups, and co-creator of the award-winning Ugly Truth anti-trafficking campaign), Ada Trillo (an award-winning documentary photographer) and Aimee Lagos (a writer and producer whose work focuses on gender justice) will explore these and other questions. Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream, a World Without Exploitation founding co-chair, will moderate the panel. Register today and join The Voices and Faces Project at this national gathering of anti-exploitation and gender justice advocates. |
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Be the change: Take part in a Voices and Faces Project advocacy training in 2019. |
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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. |
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Testimony and Transformation: Our newest Voices and Faces Project writing program receives a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council. |
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| Testimony and Transformation: Telling a New Story About Mass Incarceration — a collaboration of The Voices and Faces Project, Brothers Standing Together, and The Goldin Institute — is made possible thanks to an Envisioning Justice Community Grant from Illinois Humanities. 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. 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. We are grateful to the Illinois Humanities Council for its support of our newest Voices and Faces Project program, and indebted to the team that conceived it: Jimmie Briggs, Anne K. Ream, Brother Raymond Richard, and R. Clifton Spargo. |
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If you have a story to tell, take part in “The Stories We Tell.” |
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When The Voices and Faces Project launched “The Stories We Tell,” North America’s first two-day testimonial writing program for those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence, we did so with a simple belief: that the stories of those who have lived through or witnessed violence can challenge and change the world. During a moment in our national life when politicians and pundits too often fail to confront the root causes of gender-based violence, injustice, and inequality, our “Stories We Tell” writers are using their testimonies to change minds and hearts. There is nothing beautiful about injustice, but there is something deeply beautiful about the women and girls who are speaking out about it. Their testimonies make us pause, feel, and think. Our hope is that the writing being created during “The Stories We Tell” will also compel readers to act. |
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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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