Co-creation and collaboration

• Provide opportunities to learn from each other — sharing ideas and discussion questions to explore the breadth of stories that exist within all of us, and heartstorm ways to tell them.

Practical Workshops and Skills-sharing

• The workshops or creative “stations” will be led by storytellers from a range of backgrounds and artistic practices, and will be shaped together by those who are participating (you!).

Solidarity and Grounding in our collective futures

• Overall, we’d like to reflect on the emerging landscape of storytelling: what tools do we already have? can we create with them? can we adapt them?

• These are some of the questions to prompt us to explore how we can tell our stories more often…
• We will aim to support each other to notice and acknowledge the subtle and sometimes insurmountable obstacles that can thwart our voices from emerging, and ultimately our creativity. Perhaps exposing some of the causes that ignite painful insecurities within each of us, but also the ones that swarm amidst our collectives — preventing many of us from identifying as storytellers or artists.
• With you all, we want to envision and grow futures where ALL our stories continue to inspire and connect us more.

Worlding

“it matters what stories make worlds, and what worlds make stories.” Donna Haraway

• To engage in worlding is to co-create new worlds. So, how does storytelling do this work? To us, storytelling is a powerful thread that runs through histories and all liveways. We have always told and shared stories,in part as a source of inspiration for composting and composing worlds, and in part for cultivating deeper connections.

On the theme:

Focusing on collaboration acknowledges the notion that we are always co-creating with each other — including with our more-than-human kin and ancestors — because nothing is done in silo, we are always in communion, translating our worlds with and for each other.

When we co-create and co-learn in person, we are engaging in sharing our experiences, concepts, and ideas, and then supporting each other to transform these into pictures, objects, sounds, or words. When we tell stories together with our various crafts, we are communicating meaning as we compose new worlds — animating our abstractions while creating magic and beauty.

AND having fun!

To us, this is what translating our worlds into story can look like — deepening into collaboration we ground our storytelling practice in imagining grounded futures, where both radical story and emerging knowledges begin to bloom in unforeseen and beautiful ways.