The JustStories Fellowship seeks to challenge and energize the professional storytelling community to develop, create and perform stories that deal with ethnic identity, race relations and valuing differences.

The Fellowship provides financial and creative support to a storyteller to find the time and space to create an original performance piece or pieces that deal with inclusive themes.

The JustStories Fellowship is an initiative of Angels Studio/Chicago in collaboration with O’Halloran Communications/Evanston, Illinois.

The JustStories Initiative announces with great pride and enthusiasm their 2010 JustStories Fellowship

Storyteller Nancy Wang

Nancy has been awarded the 2010 JustStories Fellowship because of her devotion to racial justice through the art of storytelling. Nancy’s new story In the Land of the Free (working title) tells of three generations of immigration stories of her family and their journeys from China to America and the return journey of her American mother to 1920s China to become a top athlete. Nancy also tells of her return to China as a tourist and leader of the Gencun storytelling delegation and the pitfalls and pleasures of her artistic partnership with a Japanese-Filipino man. The new story will premiere in the Spring of 2010 at the JustStories Storytelling Festival April 16 & 17, 2010 in the Chicagoland area.

Email Nancy at: nancy@ethotec.org

… Using stories to connect to our common story …

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