STORIES IN LIVING COLOR

Storytellers...
working together...
learning about race, unlearning racism and discrimination

The Next Stories in Living Color event will be held in April.  Watch this space for the date, time and ticket link.
  If you'd like to join our mailing list in order to receive news and updates please contact rickroberts@tds.net 

                                                          ABOUT
 
Stories in Living Color is an ongoing project of the Storytelling Association of California (SAC), teaming up storytellers of different races, or communities that face discrimination, to work on paired stories that illustrate issues regarding race, racism, or discrimination.

PAIRED STORIES                                                              
What are paired stories?  Stories from two tellers’ lives and experiences that intersect or are of a similar theme. They may be personal stories or traditional tales.

WORKING TOGETHER
Paired tellers will spend time getting to know one another through discussions of their lived experiences concerning race, racism, or discrimination.  Through this process the two tellers will identify and develop storylines that intersect in some way.  Tellers will decide the length of their individual stories as long as they keep to a total 20 minute maximum for both.

HONING YOUR STORYTELLING CHOPS
SAC will provide workshopping sessions for all tellers, with expert advice and consultation.  All storytellers are welcome, regardless of experience.

LEARNING
Tellers will learn about challenges faced by their partner providing an opportunity to learn about how race, racism and discrimination have impacted their lives.  White tellers must be open to this process, as people of color have experiences of racism and discrimination that white people have never experienced, and will never experience, due to institutionalized white privilege. 

FURTHER LEARNING, FOR A WIDER AUDIENCE
SAC will endeavor to find online storytelling venues around the country and will arrange for paired storytellers to appear on these “shows.”  Prior to the show an emcee will discuss the tellers’ stories with them and head up a discussion after their performance.  This will enrich the learning process for both tellers and audience alike.

                                   ONLINE SHOWS 

Next Show: April; date and time to be determined.

        IF YOU WANT TO GET ON OUR EMAIL LIST CONTACT rickroberts@tds.net

To View Previous Shows go to YouTube and search on The Storytelling Association of California; you will find Stories in Living Color recorded shows among the SAC recordings there.


     HOW TO TAKE PART IN STORIES IN LIVING COLOR

• Simply email rickroberts@tds.net and tell Rick that you are interested.  Easy!

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LIST OF TELLERS
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NAME	AGE	LOCATION	ETHNICITY/ COMMUNITY	SHORT DESCRIPTION
Bonnie Gardner	57	Vienna, Virginia	White	Has an adopted Vietnamese child, has experienced recent racism
Laura Packer	57	Orono, MN	White, Jewish, LGBTQIA	Previous mixed race marriage, bi-racial step children; bias experienced on racial/religious/ sex preferences
​Carol Moore	34	Herndon, VA	Black	Experienced unconscious bias and systemic racism in the midst of acts of kindness /Microaggressions in the workplace due to hair
Andrew Laufer	64	Wilton, CA	White	Black History (or lack of) and White privilege in education from an educator's perspective
Michael Katz	59	Santa Barbara, CA	White/Jewish/Buddhist	Evolving views of race, racism from child to present; esp. via involvement with incarcerated
Kira Larkin	43	Utah	White/Blind	Experiences assumptions of inabilities due to blindness and negative effects from such assumptions
Kanute Rarey	73	Haysville, NC	White	Grew up, lived in mostly white communities; interacted with people of color professionally; pairing with a person of color who grew up in mostly white community an idea for pairing
Wynn Montgomery	79	Erie, CO	White	Grew up in mostly white South, worked in Atlanta under Black mayors on programs training economically disadvantaged; has bi-racial grandchildren
Howard Lieberman	71	Stillwater, MN	Ashkanazi Jew/Non binary LGBTQA	Progressive Ashkanzi Jew, would like to pair with Palestinian and explore common ancestry
Denise McCormack	NA	Bordentown, NJ	White	In a singular event, I suffered the acute experience of being cast alone in the role of "other" and that moment of revelation has stayed with me for almost 50 years.  ​
Malcolm Grissom	51	San Francisco, CA	Black/ Disabled	Experienced discrimination due to race from own community, and almost committed suicide due to discrimination arising from disability
Sally Holzman	Elder	Walnut Creek, CA	White	Attachment to "colored" maid in South as child, evolution into adult friendship during civil rights movement
Genevieve Navar Franklin			Latinx
Bobbie Kinkead	78	Oakland, CA	White	Dominant male driven storytelling narrative in many ethnic groups
John Richardson	Value	Berkeley, CA	White	I am an immigrant, though, thanks to systemic privilege, never regarded as one