Webinar
Community Voices Initiative
In this intimate and interactive multi-week course, you’ll will take a deep dive into ethical storytelling and gathering first-person narratives. Participants will learn about project planning and be guided through conducting and editing oral history interviews with a community member, constituent, or colleague. You’ll finish this course with a completed narrative ready to share, as …
Documenting Refugee Stories
Join us for a conversation with Diya Abdo about oral history as a tool for documenting refugee experiences and advocating for immigrant justice. Diya founded Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR), which advocates for housing refugee families on college and university campuses and supporting them in their resettlement, and led an oral history project recording newcomer …
Advocacy • Education • Events & Webinars • Migration & Displacement • Political Oppression & Civil Rights • Racial Justice
Participatory Storytelling Exhibitions
Join us for a conversation with Mark Menjívar about participatory projects rooted in oral history, archives, photography, and social action. Mark will share insights from collaborations with artists, educators, youth, and community members to engage in meaningful dialogue and action around immigration and border issues. In this conversation, we’ll explore topics including:
Advocacy • Arts • Cultural and Personal Identity • Education • Events & Webinars • Migration & Displacement • Racial Justice
Liberation Stories + Public Art
Join us for a conversation with Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz about using oral history to honor our past, make meaning of our present, and vision liberated futures. Mi’Jan will share insights from years of experience creating cultural projects and story-rich live events that foster community-building and meaningful social change. We’ll explore topics including:
For Educators: Amplifying Sanctuary Voices Curriculum
As we move into an increasingly unstable political environment for immigrants, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and Voice of Witness are offering this webinar to support educators in bringing curriculum around immigration and first-person stories from immigrants into their classrooms. The ASV Migration Project: Middle School Educators’ Guide is a 12 lesson curriculum that was piloted …
Storytelling for Social Change Webinar
In this webinar, VOW staff will provide an introduction to our storytelling methodology and the use of oral history to document and amplify first-person testimonies. We will explore the power of personal narrative as a format and discuss key elements of the oral history process, including best practices in ethical interviewing and project creation. The …
Perspective Receiving versus Taking: The Science of Empathy
Join Greater Good in Education and Voice of Witness for a workshop where you can learn strategies to receive, honor, hold, and respect others’ perspectives. This event is part of the How to Improve Relationships in Schools: Bridging Differences through Curiosity, Empathy, Humility, and Forgiveness community meeting series for educators.
Democracy and Civic Engagement Workshop for Educators
Voice of Witness is hosting a workshop on democracy, civic engagement, and storytelling in the classroom, with a special feature from NPR/PBS member station KQED about their Youth Media Challenge: Call for Change. Geared toward middle and high school educators, this one-hour session will explore democracy and civic participation through the lens of personal storytelling, …
