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STORIES IN LIVING COLOR

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

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The Next Stories in Living Color event will be on Friday, January 29th at 7PM Pacific Time. 
Tickets are available via this link:
Stories in Living Color / Episode #5 | Eventcombo
  If you'd like to join our mailing list in order to receive news and updates please contact rickroberts@tds.net 

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                                                          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.

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: January, date 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
  • CLICK HERE for the Teller Information Form, which is a fill-in Word document.  Please download the file, add your information, save it, then email it back to Rick Roberts.  NOTE: For some browsers, you may need to right-click on the above link and open or save the file (or "Save Link As") to your computer rather than just left-click.
  • The information that you and other tellers have submitted will be summarized on the section below titled “List of Tellers.”
  • If you see an idea or theme that intersects with yours, contact the teller and begin a conversation.  Click on the Short Description link (in blue type) to see the full information on that teller.  Click on their name to see their email address.
  • If the two of you decide to work together, contact Rick Roberts and he will “hide” your information on the website.
  • If you subsequently decide not to work together, contact Rick and he will “unhide” your information.
  • After completion of work on your paired stories, contact Rick and he will discuss upcoming online telling opportunities with you.
  • We cannot guarantee that all Storytellers will get the opportunity to tell online, but we will do our best. All tellers who appear on shows will be compensated.

LIST OF TELLERS
Click on the name to send an email.
Click on the Keywords for more details.  A PDF will load.

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 

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Value
Value
Value
Value
Roopa Mohan
59
Walnut Creek, CA
South Asian/Indian/Hindu
Paired and working with Karin Amato 
Dana Sherry
49
Orinda, CA
​White
Paired and working with O.J. Mozon Jr.
Elizabeth Vander Kamp
56
Homewood, AL
White
Paired and working with Ruby Simpkins
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
65
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
Karin Amano
53
Georgia
Japanese
Paired and working with Roopa Mohan
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
Ollis (O.J.) Mozon Jr.
67
Oceanside, CA
Black
Paired and working with Dana Sherry
Ed Lewis
73
Davis, CA
White
Paired and working with Angela James
Angela James
35
Sacramento, CA
Other/Immigrant
Paired and working with Ed Lewis
Value
Value
Value
Value
Value
Ruby Simpkins
70
Camarillo, CA
African American​
Paired and working with Elizabeth Vander Kamp
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