Event Details
Please join Futures Without Violence for the second Storyteller Summit, presented by the Courage Museum, in collaboration with Actual Films. The program will feature a series of participatory discussions with two inspiring survivor/activists, Taylor Dumpson and Rosalie Fish, both of whom have chosen to share their experiences with gender and race-based discrimination and violence, for the inaugural Empathy Mirror installation at the upcoming Courage Museum in San Francisco. Throughout the program, we will take attendees behind the scenes of the making of the Empathy Mirrors installation, as storytellers engage in discussions with award-winning filmmakers, Yoruba Richen and Bonni Cohen, two of the remarkable documentary filmmakers that are producing and directing this groundbreaking interactive storytelling experience in collaboration with the museum’s award-winning experience design firm, Local Projects. Audience engagement and networking opportunities will be embedded throughout the program to allow for deeper engagement with other attendees, as well as the storytellers and directors. Space is very limited. Please be sure to RSVP as soon as possible.Location:
The Open Square at Futures Without Violence 100 Montgomery Street, The Presidio San Francisco, CA 94129Dates:
Thursday, May 30, 2024Storyteller Summit Schedule
10:00AM - 10:30AM Tour of the design plans for the Courage Museum
10:30AM – 11:00AM Welcome/Introductions
11:00AM – 11:45AM Storyteller Discussion #1
11:45PM – 12:30PM Lunch, Networking & Keynote
12:30PM – 1:15PM Storyteller Discussion #2
1:15PM – 1:30PM Closing remarks
Special Thanks to:
Deborah Santana as our Presenting Sponsor, for making this day a reality, and for her lead investment in the Courage Museum.
Patricia Lee Hoffmann, for her long-standing support of FUTURES and the development of the Courage Museum.
To inquire about event sponsorship opportunities, please contact Mindy Iwanaka at miwanaka@futureswithoutviolence.org.
EMPATHY MIRROR INSTALLATION OVERVIEW
Featured Empathy Mirror Directors
Yoruba Richen
Yoruba Richen is a Peabody-award winning documentary filmmaker whose film, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won a Gracie Award and was honored by the Television Academy. Her most recent film, The Cost of Inheritance, about the quest for reparations in the U.S premiered on PBS in January. Other recent work include the Emmy nominated films, American Reckoning, How It Feels to Be Free, The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show and Green Book Guide to Freedom. Yoruba’s film, The Killing of Breonna Taylor won an NAACP Image Award. Yoruba was a Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow and she won the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access. She is a featured TED Speaker and was a Sundance Producer’s Fellow. Yoruba was recently awarded the Trailblazer award by Black Public Media and is the founding.
Bonni Cohen
Bonni has produced and directed an array of award-winning films since co-founding Actual Films over 20 years ago with her film partner, Jon Shenk. Most recently, she produced the Oscar-nominated film LEAD ME HOME, which premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and is a Netflix Original. She also recently co-directed ATHLETE A, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and received four nominations from the Critics’ Choice Awards. In 2010, Bonni co-founded the Catapult Film Fund.
Rosalie Fish
Rosalie Fish is a Cowlitz tribal member and a semi-professional runner from the Muckleshoot reservation. Rosalie runs for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, and competed for the University of Washington at the D1 level. Now, Rosalie educates on Indigenous issues and coaches track at the Muckleshoot Tribal school.