S.P.E.A.C.- Sustainable Progress through Engaging Active Citizens

12/08/2017

Hello Speac Community!

I’m writing to offer you an opportunity to attend a workshop by Line Break Media on Strategies for Social Justice Storytelling.

The workshop will be held at HOPE Community, and is free for participants. (Usually it’s not, so take it now if you can!) Details below.

The dates are:
Monday Dec 11th, 3-6
Wednesday Dec 13th, 3-6
Monday Dec 18th 3-6

We are asking that you commit to the full three workshop days because they build off of each other.
Space is limited, so please let me know if you would like to attend!

If you are interested, email [email protected] to reserve a space!

More information about the workshop:
As a human, you are a natural storyteller. Your mind creates narratives to make sense of the world, and you share those narratives with others around you. How can you strategically adapt and apply this natural storytelling ability to achieve your social justice goals, and why is it important to do so?

This 3-week workshop series will share some fundamental frameworks to deepen your communications strategy for social justice, and help you apply storytelling tools to develop a more effective social justice narrative about your work. Come sharpen your narrative analysis, practice unpacking dominant status quo stories, and grow your ability to make deliberate, intentional narrative choices to better achieve organizing and advocacy goals.

Presented by Eleonore Wesserle of Line Break Media and Sarah Valli, this workshop series will explore how you and your colleagues can build persuasive stories to help achieve the change you're working towards. This series makes use of materials and ideas from the Center for Story-Based Strategy, the Center for Media Justice, Ricardo Levins Morales, the Frameworks Institute, and other visionaries (references and background reading will be provided). Sessions will center around why and how to communicate your own social justice issue while deconstructing mainstream narratives, and will include:

Agenda:

Monday, Dec 11

Getting grounded: Why communications strategy for social justice?

• Grounding

• Culture as soil: A parable

• The power of framing: A brief immersion behind the buzzword

Wednesday, Dec 13

Unpacking Dominant Narratives and Narratives for Social Justice

• Visioning and articulating a core narrative for your social justice issue

• Now, Wow, How: one message method to organize your story

• Case study: Analyzing a status quo narrative vs a social justice narrative

Monday, Dec 18

Turning a Message into a Story: Character and Imagery case studies

• Building out Now, Wow, How: The Battle of the Story

• Audience inquiry: who are you trying to move?



Discussion will explicitly:

name oppressions and systems of power, including white supremacy, racism, patriarchy, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, ableism, and others;
explore how these systems support and are supported by dominant cultural narratives and media structures; and
explore tools that can help stories for social justice break through.

I hope you can make it. I took an earlier version of this workshop and despite having experience in this area, got a lot out of it. It’s great for a range of background experiences. Email me asap to reserve a spot or with questions!

07/27/2015

Two listening sessions this week - Wednesday at Bottineau Park and Thursday at Peavy Park, Both sessions will start with Dinner at 6:00pm with dialogue from 6:30-7:30, come out and/or invite your friends and family.

05/21/2015

Fist up for our comrades!
Congrats to the graduates of Sustainable Progress through Engaging Active Citizens (S.P.E.A.C) community organizing & neighborhood Leadership Training 2015 at Hope Community Inc.!!!

05/09/2013

Congratulations to the 2013 class of S.P.E.A.C Community Organizing & Neighborhood Leadership Training!! THIS IS WHAT COMMUNITY POWER LOOKS LIKE! SHINE ON! Solidarity.

02/12/2013

If SPEAC is not for you don't worry Hope Community Inc. offers the community many opportunities to engage! Learn more Here:
www.hope-community.org

Hope Community created and implemented a vision for a neighborhood where most had little hope. One building at a time, abandoned spaces have turned into homes for families. But buildings alone do not make community. People must build a community, and that understanding is at the core of Hope Communi...

02/12/2013

Hey There!
Have you shared our page with friends today? Stop by and say hi and tell your friends!

Then go here to learn more:
http://www.hope-community.org/revitalization/speac

SPEAC provides a means of cultivating and channeling the power of citizens in the Twin Cities. Through Hope Community, SPEAC promotes effective models of community organizing and leadership.

07/12/2012

In 2007, the founders of SPEAC were engaged in it's very first training cohort. It was a very important and tense moment in our young lives as we strived to meet what would soon become the expectations of all who would choose to go through the SPEAC training process. We built a foundation together, we shared our lives, times, spaces, struggles together. This was our baby. A successful baby that continues to grow from all the love & nourishment of all its participants. It took many amazing people to build this initiative and we are deeply connected to one another.

On July 5th 2012 we lost one of our original members/founders, Abdulle Elmi when he was senselessly murdered in Toronto, Canada. We'd like to take this time to extend our deepest condolences to his family, and ask that you help us to lift him up as our comrade in the struggle, for he was THAT and so much more. His essence of comedy, love, and commitment to the improvement and flourishing of his people and community through music and organizing remains and will never be forgotten.

Today Abdulle we honor you and all you brought to our lives and those around you. Our brother and comrade in the struggle, thank you for loving us. We love you too.

Rest In Power.
9.3.86-7.5.12

08/18/2009

SPEAC was recently interviewed by the Minneapolis Spokesman Recorder regarding our current action research. Check it out and feel free to share your thoughts and opinions!

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07/31/2009

Phillips Neighborhood National Night Out!
"Brought to you by Hope Community, SPEAC, and Mpls Park & Rec."
This event is planned to start at 5:00 pm on Aug 4, 2009 at Peavey Park.

07/01/2009

We are SPEAC!
Sustainable Progress through Engaging Active Citizens

SPEAC provides a means of cultivating and channeling the power of citizens in the Twin Cities. Through Hope Community, SPEAC promotes effective models of community organizing and leadership.

07/01/2009

Check out SPEAC's most recent event!

“We are a group of young people who want to make change. We’ve been doing this work for two-and-a-half years and we’re very patient, but we’re also always working. This Peavey Park action issue has been a labor of love.”