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Check here for occasional posts on storytelling and social change. Posts will include round-ups on news and resources, think pieces, mini case studies, advice, Q&As, virtual roundtables and more. Got a story or question you’d like us to consider blogging about? Write to us at info@narrativearts.org.
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Mar
12
12
2014
Stories fictional and factual in social-change campaigns
) Documentary films are often used in social-change efforts. But fiction films? Not so much. That’s surprising, given that ...
Mar
6
6
2014
Future Tense Stories
IMAGINING UTOPIA: I think you’ll have to admit it’d be pretty cool to go to a school that had ...
Feb
26
26
2014
Weekly roundup: Story shapes, the imagination, and visual storytelling resources
THE SHAPES OF STORIES: Novelist Kurt Vonnegut’s rejected master’s thesis described the “shapes” of stories. Here, graphic designer Maya ...
Feb
19
19
2014
Media tropes and biases, and why activists should care
PERIODIC TABLE OF STORYTELLING: Above, an ingenious representation of the biggest tropes on television, broken down into categories of ...
Feb
12
12
2014
Storytelling against violence — two projects
In this video from the Texas After Violence Project, former corrections officer Jim Willett remembers the first execution he ...
Feb
5
5
2014
Methods in social change storytelling
THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC: Last month I was thrilled to take a “Joker” training with the NYC branch ...
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