FROM WHERE WE ARE:
CONNECTING COMMUNITIES THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING
From Where We Are is a participatory 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.
In April, 2025, a presentation of writings by workshop participants will take place at Bennington College's Center for Advancement of Public Action. Date and time to be announced in early March.
Please feel free to join our mailing list by writing to caroladinolfi1@gmail.com.
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 and humanities discourse within underserved and marginalized communities.
RECENT PROJECTS
"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?
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