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.
2007 JustStories Fellow:
Bangladeshi-American Muslim
Storyteller Arif Choudhury
Arif Choudhury explores how the various things he has been called –family names, nicknames, labels, and slurs/epithets throughout his life by friends and family, bullies, racists, and “well-meaning” but less than enlightened people have left an imprint on him, on how they have shaped who he is and how he sees himself.
… Using stories to connect to our common story …
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