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Our Printers Row Literary Festival contributors and performers: Kate Black-Spence, Saunte Harden-Tate, Ona Wang, Anne K. Ream, Aimee Noffsinger, Nikki Patin, Ann Filmer, Mojdeh Stoakley.
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Two days and a world of ideas: Join The Voices and Faces Project at Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago Sep.11 & 12.
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For the fourth year running, The Voices and Faces Project is proud to be a featured presenter at the Printers Row Literary Festival — one of the country's largest and longest-standing books and ideas gatherings. This year we're collaborating with our allies at Surviving the Mic and the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation to present two must-attend festival programs:
How do you Survive?
A performance and poetry reading.
Saturday, September 11, 2021
10am-11am @ Center Stage
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Through a project sponsored by Poetry Foundation, the Chicago Reader curated a series of poems written in response to the question: In the wake of sexual violence, exploitation or harassment, what does survival look like? The resulting poetry and spoken word, curated by writer Nikki Patin, is truthful yet hopeful, speaking to the resilience of a community of writers who have been shaped — but refuse to be defined - by the violence that they have lived through. Join us for a special Lit Fest reading featuring the writers from that series: Mojdeh Stoakley, Saunte Harden-Tate, Ona Wang, Anne K. Ream and Nikki Patin. The performance will conclude with a crowdsourced poetic performance from The Voices and Faces Project's "Louder Together" series.
Speaking Poetry to Power:
A writing workshop.
Co-presented by Surviving the Mic and The Voices and Faces Project
Sunday, September 12, 2021
10am-11am @ Program Stage
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Speaking Poetry to Power: Surviving Something is a workshop about navigating what we've survived. What has always been true and is becoming more and more amplified these days is that we're all surviving something. From generational trauma to institutional brutality, we're in a cultural moment of confronting that which needs to be called out into the open, examined and ultimately healed. Facilitated by Nikki Patin, Founder/Executive Producer of Surviving the Mic and Community Engagement Director for the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, in collaboration with The Voices and Faces Project. This workshop will explore the writing of survivors of sexual violence, as well as works from Melissa Harris-Perry, Assata Shakur and local Chicago writers that inspire us to write our own pieces exploring the power, beauty and necessity of both resilience and resistance.
All festival events are free. So come for the full two days, and make special note of The Voices and Faces Project must-sees. For more information, visit printersrowlitfest.org
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On Thursday October 21st join us for a virtual conversation and celebration of a new book by Brenda Myers-Powell. |
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Brenda Myers-Powell, the founder of Dreamcatcher Foundation and a longstanding Voices and Faces Project ally, has a new memoir out, and we can't wait to celebrate it! Leaving Breezy Street, Brenda's deeply personal account of her days in and journey out of the sex trade, is truthful, powerful and enlightening, reminding us that our pain can be the source of our power. On the evening of October 21st, join us The Voices and Faces Project and World Without Exploitation for a virtual celebration and conversation between Brenda and writer Anne K. Ream, whose recent New City Chicago profile of Brenda, "Joy as an Act of Resistance," captures much of what we admire about this fierce movement leader. So save the date, and watch this space for further details!
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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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