12:30 - 2pm Pacific and AZ Time/ 3:30 - 5pm ET, March 30th
The Border Futures Narrative Showcase
From the Ford Foundation Registration page: “Join us for the launch of Border Futures: A Guide for Impact Storytelling, a showcase of creative and movement projects and interventions, and a conversation. Border Futures was inspired by the brilliant work of artists, storytellers, and activists from the border region who participated in the Center for Cultural Power and the Reclaiming the Border Narrative Project cohort. The guide is designed as a narrative change tool that can be used to amplify the stories that advance the values and vision emerging out of the transformative practices in the United States-Mexico border region communities. Our goal is to highlight stories that reflect the dignity, truth, aspirations, and struggles of migrants and border communities. It is a reminder to audiences that we all belong.
This session is designed for border stakeholders, creatives, narrative strategists, and funders looking for ways to uplift and amplify the voices and stories in border communities that reflect a vibrant, diverse, and expansive vision of the United States-Mexico border region and its future.
Reclaiming the Border Narrative is an effort to penetrate and shape the national attention on migration and the United States-Mexico border by supporting authentic storytelling by affected communities on the cultures and socio-political dynamics that comprise the region. Ford Foundation is partnering with the Center for Cultural Power, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures and Grantees (including Naomi Ortiz) on this initiative.”