Keynote Presentation at the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling, Storytelling & Activism Symposium 2015. Paper available at http://www.creativenarrations.net/stories/creative-narrations-articles.

1. George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling, Storytelling & Activism
Symposium 2015
Getting our stories
on the map

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pic from Arizona or of throwing away stories

5. Project Goals
Sister Judy Donovan, Industrial Areas Foundation

6. It becomes public,
it makes something new.

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9. Stories
Democracy

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Garner and Ferguson #BlackLivesMatter Protest, Seattle
Photo by Scott Lum

11. • Targeted audiences,
• Clear purposes,
• Concrete actions
Social Change Storytelling

12. Stories as Constructed Objects
“Happenings become experiences when they
are digested, when they are reflected on,
related to general patterns, and synthesized.”
Saul Alinsky (1971)

13. Stories as Codes– Problem Posing
What is happening in
this story?
Why is it happening?
How can we relate to
it?
What can we do
about it?

14. Peer Education – Voter Education
“I see that if I don’t vote,
then other people are
going to keep on making
decisions for me. This
gives me a chance to
have a say in who’s
going to be making
those decisions.”
Participant in Better Questions,
Better Decisions Workshop

15. Stories as Bridges
Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Cape Verdean
Youth from Dorchester, Massachusetts

17. Mapping Our Voices for Equity
www.mappingvoices.org

18. New Storytellers New Leaders

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Uninsured Population, Palm Beach County
Contextualizing Data with Stories

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Contextualizing Stories with Data
View the StoryHub

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Telling Our Lives Digitally
Springfield, MA
WGBY/Project TOLD

23. Stories as Tools for Change
“It (stories) can even teach, conserve memory, or alter the past.”
Jerome Bruner, Acts of Meaning, 1990

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