THE FUTURE ISN’T GOING TO WRITE ITSELF: A conversation about story, social justice and the art of bearing witness with Center for Story & Witness leaders R. Clifton Spargo, Anne K. Ream and Jimmie Briggs, and moderator Jamia Wilson
May 22, 2025
Events @ Stone Park
Brooklyn, NY
CREATING AN EXPLOITATION FREE SEATTLE: A presentation & dialogue on bringing The Ugly Truth anti-trafficking campaign to Greater Seattle/King County.
May 30, 2025
Rotary Club of The Pacific Northwest Ending Sex Trafficking
Seattle, WA
A STORY CHANGES EVERYTHING: Healing Ourselves & Transforming Our World Through the Power of Narrative. A conversation between actress and StoryFinder CEO Ivana de Maria; and author and Center for Story & Witness Founder Anne K. Ream.
June 6, 2025
ANDROMEDA’S SISTERS: Women speaking truth to power through their work on women’s health, the constitution, and the arts.
June 14, 2025
9th Annual Arts & Advocacy Event
Neo-Political Cowgirls
East Hampton, NY
THE STORIES WE TELL: A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence.
July 12 & 13, 2025
Simmons Center for Global Chicago
Chicago, IL
THE HAROLD WASHINGTON LITERARY AWARDS: Keynote by National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Sandra Cisneros; opening remarks by Selection Committee Co-Chairs Anne K. Ream & Bette Cerf Hill.
Sept. 5, 2025
THE STORIES WE TELL: A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence.
Sept. 13 & 14, 2025
The Jensen Project
Dallas, TX
THE STORIES WE TELL: A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence.
Oct. 11 & 12, 2025
The Jackson School at Yale University
New Haven, CT
THE STORIES WE TELL: A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence.
Nov. 8 & 9, 2025
Freefrom
Los Angeles, CA
Closed Application
BEARING WITNESS:
A contemporary art exhibition & auction, presented in partnership with Art Works for Change and curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg.
Fall/Winter 2025
Chicago, IL
Event details TBA
THE STORIES WE TELL: A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence.
Fall/Winter 2025
New York City, NY
Event details TBA
THE STORIES WE TELL: A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence.
Fall/Winter 2025
Washington, DC
Event details TBA
Dear Friend, In 2006, a collective of artists, activists, and gender-based violence survivors launched The Voices and Faces Project, a global storytelling project created to bring the names, faces, and testimonies of survivors of gender-based violence to the attention of the public. We believed then, as we do now, that our stories...
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During a time when misogyny is increasingly normalized, survivor voices continue to be silenced, and programs to address gender-based violence are threatened in unprecedented ways, Amy Griffin’s moving new memoir, The Tell, isn’t just timely. It’s taking on the status...
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At Center for Story & Witness — a global storytelling initiative and testimonial writing program — we love celebrating the successes of our staff, workshop alums, and organizational allies. In April, 2025, there was a lot to celebrate as the...
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Louder Together, Center for Story & Witness’s crowdsourced poetry project, seeks to create video poetry that speaks to a range of...
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In September, 2024, Center for Story & Witness (formerly The Voices and Faces Project) traveled to Tbilisi, Georgia, where we...
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This summer, award-winning playwright Caity-Shea Violette, an alum of our Stories We Tell testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based...
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Our lives are constructed through narrative. We live our stories, and then we tell those stories in a way that...
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Mahatma Gandhi believed that in making any public decision, we should think deeply about how it affects the “last person”...
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Comcast Newsmakers, the longest-running news and public affairs platform of any cable operator in the country, was created to recognize...
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