About this Event
At our May Actualizing Equity gathering, we are discussing how to build power by telling our personal stories - the real stories of our communities - and sharing strategies for you to use storytelling and art for change in your community.
We’ll begin by sharing a home-made meal made by Alliance staff members, while learning from local community leaders who have used storytelling in their organizing. Then Alliance Organizers Charlie Barba-Cook and Ricardo Perez will facilitate a workshop on telling our stories powerfully, and adding those stories to hand-made flowers to form a growing collective story garden symbolizing our resilience in the face of erasure and injustice.
Participants will leave with a toolkit to adapt this workshop in their own communities.
Our well-being is directly connected to the stories surrounding our lives. If stories can be told to separate and harm us, then stories can also be told to heal and reaffirm the connections we share. - Luis Ortega, founder, Storytellers for Change
About the Actualizing Equity series
The Alliance invites you to join us for this year's Actualizing Equity series of conversations on how we can resist systems of oppression and build resilience through solidarity across communities. This event is free and open to all, and we are especially encouraging Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities and organizers to attend.
Why now
We are witnessing firsthand the impacts of our political system’s harms to our communities: from unabashedly putting profits over people and environment as programs are eliminated, to forced removal from the US through deportation, all while advancing false narratives about who we are. But we know we can resist the old divide and conquer playbook. We must stay grounded together in the strength of our humanity, our diversity, and our relationships with one another.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rondo Community Library, 461 Dale Street North, Saint Paul, United States
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