Voice of Witness

This summer, Voice of Witness is bringing the Our Town, Our Stories Summer Lab to Oakland, CA. The Lab is a hands-on workshop for high school students, who’ll work with teaching artists on oral history-based podcasting, visual art, photography and performance skills to explore hidden stories in their own communities.

This two-week program is being offered on a sliding scale to ensure that students can participate regardless of financial need. We need your help to help make this program accessible to all students by making a tax-deductible donation. Your support will make an incredible difference. Here’s how:

$25 will buy classroom and art supplies for one student.

$50 will buy one student lunch for a week.

$250 will pay for a Youth Radio graduate to mentor students in the Lab.

$450 will fully sponsor …

Voice of Witness has an opening for a Development & Communications position, starting July 1st 2013. If you’re a creative, passionate fundraising expert and a great communicator who will champion our mission, click here to download the job description and application information. We look forward to hearing from you!

Voice of Witness is delighted to announce the dates of our third annual oral history training for educators, Amplifying Unheard Voices. Join us June 24th- June 27th in San Francisco to take advantage of this incredible opportunity!

Amplifying Unheard Voices is a four-day professional development workshop that highlights the power of personal narrative and provides educators with the tools to conduct oral history projects in their classrooms and communities. Workshop participants will engage in an interactive process that introduces the skills, ethics, and social significance of doing oral history, as exemplified by Voice of Witness and other leading practitioners in the field. For more information, contact Cliff Mayotte.

Click here to download an application.

Join Voice of Witness photographer Gabriele Stabile (Refugee Hotel) and editors Sibylla Brodzinsky and Max Schoening (Throwing Stones at the Moon) at the Virginia Festival of the Book, this Friday in Charlottesville, VA.

Gabriele, Sibylla, and Max will be discussing their work alongside Jacqueline Marie Hagan (Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey) at the festival panel ‘Stories of Immigration.’

Stories of Immigration at the Virginia Festival of the Book

When: Friday, March 22nd, 4:00 pm

Where: Central JMRL Library, 201 E Market Street, Charlottesville, VA

This discussion is co-hosted by International Rescue Committee, Immigration Clinic of the University of Virginia School of Law and Legal Aid Justice Center.

We hope to see you there!

This week, ABC News covered Refugee Hotel, photographed by Gabriele Stabile and edited by Juliet Linderman. The tenth title in the Voice of Witness series, Refugee Hotel is a groundbreaking collection of photography and interviews that documents the arrival of refugees in the United States.

To read the full article, click here.

To learn more about Refugee Hotel and to order a copy on the McSweeney’s site, click here.

Refugee Hotel, and the work of Voice of Witness, is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Last week, Gabriele Stabile and Juliet Linderman, photographer and editor of Refugee Hotel, spoke to students from Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and School of Journalism. The tenth title in the Voice of Witness series, Refugee Hotel is a groundbreaking collection of photography and interviews that documents the arrival of refugees in the United States. At the event, Gabriele and Juliet discussed the refugee experience, oral history, and photojournalism.

Click here to watch the video of Gabriele and Juliet at Columbia.

This Saturday, join Voice of Witness and One Million Bones at the Museum of the African Diaspora. Voice of Witness’ Executive Director Mimi Lok will be discussing the work of Voice of Witness as a leader in human rights advocacy and arts education as part of a panel discussion entitled Giving Voice to the Voiceless. Other panelists include Erika Lubensky, Chief of Staff at Women for Women International, and David Evan Harris, Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project, and the conversation will be moderated by Giulia McPherson, Deputy Director of Citizen Advocacy at CARE USA.

Part of the Students Rebuild Challenge hosted by the Museum and One Million Bones, all are welcome to make a clay bone—a symbol of solidarity with victims and survivors in ongoing conflicts in places …

Join Voice of Witness, photographer Gabriele Stabile, and editor Juliet Linderman at events celebrating the release of Refugee Hotel, the newest title in the Voice of Witness series. Refugee Hotel is a groundbreaking collection of photography and interviews that documents the arrival of refugees in the United States. Evocative images are coupled with moving testimonies from people describing their first days in the U.S., the lives they’ve left behind, and the new communities they’ve since created.

We hope to see you at one of our events in New York this February!

Thursday, February 21, 6 pm-8 pm
Columbia University Stabile Student Center
2950 Broadway New York, NY 
Columbia University’s Oral History Masters of Arts, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and School of Journalism welcome Gabriele Stabile and Juliet Linderman for a presentation and discussion on the role of oral …

Voice of Witness is honored to be a community co-sponsor of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education’s Heroes Celebration, taking place on January 27th at San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre.

We have been partnering with the Korematsu Institute for two years to offer teachers in their educational network a free resource featuring Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice excerpts and lesson plans, as well as offering oral history workshops and trainings to Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern and South Asian Communities in San Francisco.

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Last week, Voice of Witness’ latest title, Refugee Hotel, photographed by Gabriele Stabile and edited by Juliet Linderman, was featured in The Chicago Tribune and Mother Jones. Refugee Hotel is a groundbreaking collection of photography and interviews that documents the arrival of refugees in the United States. Evocative images are coupled with moving testimonies from people describing their first days in the U.S., the lives they’ve left behind, and the new communities they’ve since created.

The Chicago Tribune writes, “The fragmented stories combine to present a compelling portrait of not just these individuals; by exploring the subjects’ often complex perceptions of the United States and the conflicts presented by becoming American, the book reflects a nuanced image of the country itself.”