Actualizing Equity: Building power through our stories
Join us for an afternoon of skillbuilding, storytelling, community connection, and nourishing food!
In the face of erasure and injustice, we remain resilient. Our stories are powerful tools of resistance that can advance our work for collective liberation. Storytelling brings us together– whether we’re sharing across the alley, across the city, or across the aisle in the halls of power.
How can we build on these connections to exercise our power? How can we ensure that our stories are being heard?
At our May Actualizing Equity event, we will explore the power of stories in our communities. We’ll learn from the experiences and strategies of community leaders who have used storytelling tactics to advance their work, and get hands-on practice with storytelling exercises that we can use in our own work.
Speakers include: Monica Bravo from the West Side Community Organization, Tea Rozman of Green Card Voices, Jamie Schumacher at Twin Cities LISC, and Ricardo Beaird from Springboard for the Arts.
“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.
Check out videos and recaps of past Actualizing Equity events
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.
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