Center for Story & Witness is excited to announce The Power to Change, a groundbreaking storytelling and narrative advocacy initiative taking place in Marrakech, Morocco on July 26 & 27, 2025. This project, developed in partnership with IREX and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, seeks to uplift community-driven stories in powerful, purposeful, and change-creating ways.
A narrative advocacy program developed in collaboration with Warda Bouye, our Center for Story & Witness Community Solutions Fellow who hails from Morocco, this initiative is designed to support healing, connection, and cultural transformation through the power of personal narrative. Our two-day Power to Change program includes:
Local storytelling, global change: transforming ourselves and the world through the power of narrative.
During this multi-media workshop, Center for Story & Witness founder & author Anne K. Ream and Community Solutions Program Fellow Warda Bouye for a workshop on enhancing narrative advocacy skills; using story to challenge harmful social norms; and promoting dignity, agency, and well-being through the art of bearing witness. For allies, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to create change through story.
July 26, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
The Caedel in Marrakech, Morocco
The art of bearing witness: a storytelling and protest poster art workshop for rising youth.
During this creatively ambitious, trauma-informed art and writing workshop a cohort of rising Moroccan youth will craft powerful protest statements inspired by personal experience; create poster art that calls the public to greater action and compassion; and explore the history and power of art as a tool for creating change.
July 27, 10 am – 12:30 pm
Tamazouzte Women’s Center in Morocco
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About Center for Story & Witness’s Power to Change Program.
The Power to Change was created by Center for Story & Witness in collaboration with Warda Bouye, our 2024 CSP Fellow, a native Moroccan. Through this initiative we seek to support rising or established Moroccan leaders and community members seeking to explore how how lived and witnessed storytelling can shift public narratives, challenge harmful norms, and advance dignity, agency, and well-being.
Center for Story & Witness is proud to serve as one of only 70 U.S.-based organizations selected by IREX and the US Department of State to host a Community Solutions Fellow this past year. A huge thanks to the inspired and inspiring Center for Story & Witness team that made this program possible: Aimee Bravo, Kali Casab, Anne K. Ream, R. Clifton Spargo, and Warda Bouye.
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