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​​​​Reclaiming Our Stories is part of our ongoing arts education project designed for individuals and groups striving for inclusion and justice. Since July, 2024, in collaboration with Writers for Recovery and funded in part by the Vermont Humanities, we have been facilitating creative writing workshops at the Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility in Rutland. ​

 

      We are planning a live presentation of Reclaiming our Stories at Bennington College's Center

                  for the Advancement of Public Action during the 25-26 fall or spring semester.

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           Please feel free to join our mailing list by writing to caroladinolfi1@gmail.com.​​

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                                               ABOUT AGENTS OF CHANGE 

 

​Founded in 2020, Agents of Change is a program that expands our restorative justice methods to encompass community engagement through the arts. To that end, we offer free public art projects designed to invite engagement in humanities discourse and artmaking experiences within underserved and marginalized communities. ​​

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                                                                PAST PROJECTS  ​

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                                                                   "WHAT HAPPENED HERE"

                                                             SATURDAY, AUGUST 10th at 7:00 PM, EST

                                                            Register here for this free virtual event:

                   https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rdeGsrzorGtVvgTNlU2E01i8fsOH8XVhw

    After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

 

Please join us for this showing of a work in progress: a Theater of Witness investigation of events that took place at St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington Vermont. "What Happened Here" will explore the impact of traumatic experiences on survivors as well as the ramifications and outcomes of subsequent events in the realms of law and restorative justice. The presentation will be followed by an opportunity to meet survivors, and a discussion. Your feedback will be important to us as we continue to explore the following questions: How do survivors deal with the ongoing impact of the atrocities they endured? How do we process such experiences, as survivors and as witnesses? Is this possible? ​The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the audience. Your feedback will be important to us as we continue to explore the following questions in our work: How do survivors deal with the ongoing impact of the atrocities they endured. How do we process such experiences, as survivors and as witnesses? Is this possible?

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     If you'd like to learn more, we highly recommend Christine Kenneally's Ghosts of the Orphanage: 

           https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Orphanage-Mysterious-Conspiracy-Silence/dp/154175851X​​

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                                                     ABOUT CAROL ADINOLFI -PROJECT FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Carol has been a teacher of creative writing for many years, serving as Writing Consultant for The Brooklyn Public Library Literacy and Prison Services Program & Writer in Residence , Teachers College, Columbia University Reading & Writing Project and as part of Quantum Leap, Bennington College. She holds a master's degree from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. 

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                                                  FOR MORE INFORMATION: caroladinolfi1@gmail.com