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Finding Your Voice: A Free Storytelling Workshop for AAPI Community Members
March 29
FREE
Join us for an in-person workshop in Oakland, California, hosted in partnership with the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender Based Violence (API-GBV). Come witness the power of storytelling and social change in action. The Capital Storytelling team will walk participants through a series of reflective exercises to help them identify and develop a true, personal story, which they can choose to share out loud.
*This workshop is centered on those who identify as AAPI members*
March 29th @ 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location:
Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence
500 12th St, Suite 330, Oakland CA 94607
About The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV): The API-GBV is a culturally specific national resource center on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and other forms of gender-based violence in Asian/Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. We envision a world free of gender-based violence for communities with equal opportunities for all to thrive.
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About the workshop facilitators:
Meghna Bhat, Ph.D. (she/her) is a renowned national gender and social justice consultant, storyteller/ artist, multidisciplinary educator, and feminist scholar based in California. She is a proud first-generation immigrant from India who has lived in the US for the past 20 years. As a recipient of the 2022 Seeding Creativity Individual Artist Award, Dr. Bhat created Gulabi Stories: A South Asian Healing Initiative, a multidisciplinary project that uses storytelling to address healing within the South Asian diaspora community. As a committed cultural bearer and narrative change advocate, she believes in the power of storytelling to build, repair, heal, and strengthen intergenerational relationships in our communities. In her spare time, Dr. Bhat loves brisk walking, cooking and dining, nurturing her plants, storytelling, and spending time with her loved ones. She currently works part-time at Capital Storytelling as a program co-coordinator and story coach.
Tamara Elena Spence, Ph.D. (she/her) is a proud Puerto Rican, Irish, and Pennsylvania Dutch neuroscientist who grew up celebrating her unique multi-cultural background. She has fond memories of both helping her mother make bacalaitos on the sunny patio and visiting Amish Country in Pennsylvania with her father to sample scrapple, apple butter, and pretzels. She is a storyteller, educator, and social change maker who has performed on stage for Capital Storytelling and Story Collider. She believes that sharing stories fosters empathy and compassion and can help build genuine connections within and between communities.