Hear a Story, Play it Back
 | It's simple. Telling stories can create peace. Stories pull us out of our skin, connect us, open our hearts. Playback is about hearing a story from the heart of violent conflict, and then retelling it. With compassion. Sharing knowledge. Building wisdom. |
Post Your Story on Playback
Playback is a special Voices Program partially sponsored by the Laird-Norton Foundation
Interview someone who has experienced the trauma of war or violent conflict. Then re-tell their story, or help them tell their own story.
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Create a video or slideshow.
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Write a poem or essay.
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Transcribe an interview.
1. Sign up on Voices.
After signing up...
2. Post your Playback story.
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Playback Stories
| Title | Teaser | Author | Picture | Updated |
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| Claribel Alegría | One more step perhaps two or three a look back the vertigo the abyss and across the thresholdThese words from the poem, “Last... | maryshetek |
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02/08/2010 - 5:01pm |
| In memory of Gertrude Wilber | Gertrude died on the first day of the Iraq War in 2003 as the bombs began to fall. She was buried beneath the plum tree in our... | Andy Himes |
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02/08/2010 - 4:10pm |
| Jumping out of Airplanes | My father-in-law served in the army. He trained to be a paratrooper. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.... | Ronald |
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02/08/2010 - 11:11am |
| My Uncle Sandy | In August, 2008 I called up the Sandberg house in Chattanooga, Tennessee and spent a couple of hours talking to Uncle Sandy... | Andrew Himes |
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02/05/2010 - 10:37am |
