Events & Webinars
BBQ Without Borders: Celebrating Food, Community, and Immigrant Stories
This summer, VOW and our partner Gems Oral Histories hosted a Story Sharing table at BBQ Without Borders, inviting Bay Area community members to record and share their stories.
Ask An Oral Historian: Open Consultation Hours
Voice of Witness hosts 60-minute monthly working sessions—open to all—in which Fanny García, VOW’s Editorial Program Manager and Oral Historian discusses methodology, offers guidance on ethical storytelling and trauma-informed interviewing approaches, and answers questions about oral history practice.
2025 Workshop Series: Oral History Storytelling Skills and Ethics
Storytelling is a powerful way to build community and advance justice through education and advocacy. Over the past 20 years, Voice of Witness (VOW) has developed an ethics-driven oral history methodology that documents first-person narratives …
Community Voices Initiative: A New Multi-Week Storytelling Course
In this intimate and interactive multi-week course, participants will take a deep dive into the practice of oral history and ethical storytelling with Voice of Witness (VOW). Using insights and examples from our 15+ years …
2025 Oral History in Practice Event Series
What does oral history look like in practice? What goes into community-rooted storytelling projects and what are the outcomes? Voice of Witness is hosting a series of intimate conversations with practitioners who have developed and …
VOW and The Women’s Building Host Storytelling for Immigrant Justice Event
Voice of Witness co-hosted the “Storytelling for Immigrant Justice” event with The Women’s Building, a powerful evening dedicated to elevating the voices of immigrant and refugee community members. Held in the Mission District in San …
Oral History in Practice: Storytelling with Country Queers
As part of the Oral History in Practice event series, Voice of Witness (VOW) hosted a webinar in conversation with Rae Garringer about their multimedia oral history project Country Queers. When the project began in …
Oral History in Practice: Celebrating Asian American Music and Memory
As part of the Oral History in Practice event series, Voice of Witness hosted a webinar with Rochelle Kwan, a cultural organizer, artist, and oral history educator, based in New York City’s Chinatown. Rochelle shared …
