The Stories We Tell can change the world: Join us for our June writing workshop in NYC.

Voices & Faces: May 2014 | The Stories We Tell can change the world: Join us for our June writing workshop in NYC.

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Every sexual violence survivor story has power and purpose. With that belief as our guide, The Voices and Faces Project created "The Stories We Tell," a two-day testimonial writing program for survivors of sexual violence, domestic violence and trafficking. During "The Stories We Tell," workshop participants read and discuss history's most compelling and world-changing testimonial writing - including works by Sandra Cisneros, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Primo Levi, and Adrienne Rich - while taking part in a series of innovative real-time writing exercises.

We read, we write and we consider social movements that have changed the world, while looking forward to the changes we can make by sharing our own testimonies. "The Stories We Tell" is a Voices and Faces Project workshop that is as purposeful as it is powerful - a way to use our own voices to create a more just and fair world.

Applications for the NYC "Stories We Tell" writing workshop June 7-8 are due May 19th. For workshop application/details, email janet@voicesandfacesandfaces.org

We can't do it without you:
Support our "Stories We Tell" Scholarship Fund.
Find out more about giving the gift of change by donating to our workshop scholarship fund. Every $500 raised provides a full two-day scholarship for a survivor waiting to take part in our program. Email for details or donate securely online.

This Friday: Anne K. Ream at the Chicago Bar Association. See you there.
On May 9th, Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream will be speaking to the Illinois Women's Bar Association, sharing photos and stories from her new book, Lived Through This: Listening to the Stories of Sexual Violence Survivors. The event is open to Voices and Faces Project supporters and there is no fee - but registration is required. Please email your RSVP to afw@chicagobar.org.
NOTE: Lunch is available for purchase or you can bring your own.

EVENT DETAILS:
Date: May 9, 2014
Time: Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Chicago Bar Association, 321 South Plymouth St., Chicago
Find out more about this event.

Media Matters: The Voices and Faces Project in the Toronto Star
The Voices and Faces Project and two of our team members, Katie Feifer and Janet Goldblatt Holmes, are featured in an April Toronto Star piece on the power of survivor voices in demanding social change. Thanks, Katie and Janet, for being willing to share your voices, faces and stories. You and survivors like you are changing the world.

Read the Toronto Star article.

Read it and be moved: Lived Through This
Eight years ago, Voices and Faces founder Anne K. Ream and documentary photographer Patricia Evans began a multi-country journey interviewing and photographing a community of sexual violence and trafficking survivors who have been "shaped, but refused to be defined, by their histories of violence." Lived Through This, Anne's memoir of that journey, is the result. V-Day founder Eve Ensler calls Lived Through This a book of "Heart-stopping, beautifully rendered stories of survivors powerfully illustrating the notion that when we tell our stories, we change the story." Read the Publishers Weekly review of Lived Through This or order this groundbreaking book on the Random House site.

Give a little, get to rock: A great way to support our work.
Between now and May 25th, make an online donation of $20 or more to The Voices and Faces Project, and we'll send you our first benefit CD, "The Voices and Faces Project, Volume One." It features 18 amazing songs by the artists every alternative and indie rock fan loves. Listen to the Public Radio piece about the CD here, and check out select tracks from the album and donate securely online.

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