Date: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Location: The Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education, 55 Columbus Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
Participants will work with Voice of Witness staff and local oral history educators, coming away with oral history training, lesson plans and curricula support, and complimentary copies of Patriot Acts for use in schools and organizations.
The Walk will benefit the work of the Center for Justice and Accountability, The Genocide Education Project and the SF Bay Area Darfur Coalition, the walk’s host. For more information and to register forthe Walk, please visit www.walkagainstgenocide.org.
Voice of Witness’ Education Program in the Community: Join San Lorenzo High School for “The Russell City Project”
Learn how teachers working with Voice of Witness bring their oral history skills and training into the classroom by seeing their work in action. On April 20th and 21st, students at San Lorenzo High School will present The Russell City Project, a documentary theatre piece created from student-led oral history interviews.This project was sparked during our 2011 teacher training workshop Amplifying Unheard Voices. Click here to learn more about this workshop, and to register for our 2012 teacher training.
The Russell City Project documents the story of a diverse, unincorporated community in Alameda County whose residents faced displacement by eminent domain laws and a series of unexplained arson fires in the wake of industrial development in the 1960s.
This community performance takes place at 7pm on April 20 and 21 at San Lorenzo High School, in San Lorenzo, CA. Click here to learn more.
Listen to Excerpts from Last Month’s ‘Evening of Witness’
Thank you to everyone who came out to Evening of Witness last month! We’re delighted to present a selection of audio pieces created during the event by radio producer Rachel James, with photography by Geordie Wood.Click here to listen to them all, or hear a short excerpt below.
About Evening of Witness: Powerful water events are shaping our world and lives ever more dramatically. The March 21st event Evening of Witness was a chance to reflect – as a global community – on our relationship with this dominant and essential force. The Magnum Foundation and Voice of Witness partnered to weave visual and spoken narratives about personal and international water politics. Supported by the ongoing Water Initiative at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, this cross-platform documentary event took place in one of New York City’s most magnificent Gothic Cathedrals.
Register Now for our Summer 2012 Teacher Training: ‘Amplifying Unheard Voices: The Power of the Story’
This unique four day training will be held at Immaculate Conception Academy in San Francisco, CA on July 16th through July 19th. Using the Voice of Witness book series as foundational texts, the workshop will highlight the power of personal narrative and provide educators with the tools to conduct oral history projects in their classrooms and communities.
Join Voice of Witness co-founder Dave Eggers at the Herbst Theatre, as he is presented with the Commonwealth Club INFORUM’s 21st Century Visionary Award!
Date: Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 Location: Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness, San Francisco Time: 6:30 p.m. check-in, 7 p.m. program, 8 p.m. reception Cost: $25 standard, $15 members; Premium seating: $45 standard, $30 members, $10 students for all categories (with valid ID). Tickets are available via City Box office. Order online or by calling 415-392-4400. Click here for more information.
Join Robin Levi for an panel discussion on International Women’s Day at the University of San Francisco’s Global Women’s Rights Forum tonight from 6 pm-8 pm, entitled Gender and Race-based Violence & Criminal Justice.
Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research presents Women Prisoners: No Right to be a Mother, a panel discussion about the rights of incarcerated mothers, featuring Robin Levi. A reception and book signing will follow.
Join us in New York for ‘Evening of Witness,’ March 21st, 2012 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Hosted by Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, this evening features narratives from the Voice of Witness series read by noted writers and activists with visual interventions from Magnum Foundation photographers and artists. Together, they offer vivid portrayals of “water” through the experiences of Zimbabwean refugees, undocumented immigrants in the U.S., Burmese migrants forced into the illegal fishing industry, and of men and women who lived through Hurricane Katrina. Click here for more information.
Join Inside This Place, Not of It editor Robin Levi at Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research for “Women Prisoners: No Right to be a Mother.” This panel discussion focuses on the fastest growing prison population in the U.S.—women. The discussion will be followed by a reception and book signing.
Event details:
March 8th, 2012, 4:15pm to 5:45pm
584 Capistrano Way
Stanford, CA
This unique four day training will be held at Immaculate Conception Academy in San Francisco, July 16th through 19th. Using the Voice of Witness book series as foundational texts, the workshop will highlight the power of personal narrative and provide educators with the tools to conduct oral history projects in their classrooms and communities.
Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, and is the nonprofit division of McSweeney's Books.
Join Voice of Witness, the Korematsu Institute, and the Islamic Networks Group for Post-9/11 Stories: Exploring Civil Rights Narratives for Classrooms and Communities an oral history workshop exploring issues of post-9/11 injustice through the stories in the Voice of Witness title Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice.
Join us for our second annual summer workshop for teachers: 
