Tag: storytelling

Truth Storytelling
Saturday, April 1, 2023
1pm PT/ 2pm MT/ 3pm CT/ 4pm ET

This storytelling gathering blossomed in January 2021 with a possible purpose to co-create and co-construct the role of digital and visual Truth Storytelling in the global project of peacebuilding and empowering a culture of peace. Truth Storytelling engages with grassroots efforts to enact a cabinet level United States Department of Peacebuilding and  is part of the worldwide movement to bring peace and positive purpose to being alive on this planet in community with all living beings and the earth. Each month on the first Saturday participants are invited to discuss topics related to peace and truth.

This gathering is open to anyone who is interested in peace, truth, justice, empathy and making connections with others in a compassionate space.
Bud Johnston-Ojibewa

Bud Johnston, Keepers president since 1996, is a storyteller, a teacher, an artist and an elder. Bud began quarrying and carving pipestone in about 1985 after his work transferred him to Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Employed by United Airlines for 37 years with various operations and planning positions, Bud now hosts pipe making workshops and travels around the world to educate others in tribal storytelling and American Indian history and culture.

Bud is an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. He also served on the board of the Pipestone Indian Shrine Association for many years and is the current chairman of the Pipestone Convention and Visitor Bureau. Bud also served on the MN Governor’s Explore Minnesota Tourism council as an at large member from 2015-2019, he was re-appointed by gov Tim Walz to the council from 2019-2023

Bud continues to coordinate the Keepers annual gathering since 1996 with the valuable help of many volunteers, creating publicity as well as organizing artist demonstrations, and vendor booths.

Join Zoom HERE.

Because of your commitment, we have kept up our pace of gun violence prevention work, even during the pandemic — including distribution of over 12,000 gun safety kits across Kentucky and Ohio, and training over 100 people in Save A Life prevention training. We couldn’t do this important work without you!

We’re hopeful you will join us at our upcoming A Night for Life event in Cincinnati later this month, our most important fundraiser of the year, and help us continue to work toward our mission to find common ground to end gun violence.

A Night for Life 2021 will take place on September 25 and will highlight gun violence survivors and their Reflections on Survival. Each survivor has partnered with professional artists to share their stories of trauma and resilience through their chosen art form. Imagine the mass shooting of September 6, 2018 as told through visual art and music or a homicide told through dance or spoken word.

To ensure the health and safety of everyone attending A Night for Life 2021, we ask that each attendee, vendor, and performer provide either proof of vaccination status or a negative COVID-19 test prior to entry into the venue. For more information regarding the event and the many ways you can engage, please visit this link.

Because of your commitment, we have kept up our pace of gun violence prevention work, even during the pandemic — including distribution of over 12,000 gun safety kits across Kentucky and Ohio, and training over 100 people in Save A Life prevention training. We couldn’t do this important work without you!

We’re hopeful you will join us at our upcoming A Night for Life event in Cincinnati later this month, our most important fundraiser of the year, and help us continue to work toward our mission to find common ground to end gun violence.

A Night for Life 2021 will take place on September 25 and will highlight gun violence survivors and their Reflections on Survival. Each survivor has partnered with professional artists to share their stories of trauma and resilience through their chosen art form. Imagine the mass shooting of September 6, 2018 as told through visual art and music or a homicide told through dance or spoken word.

To ensure the health and safety of everyone attending A Night for Life 2021, we ask that each attendee, vendor, and performer provide either proof of vaccination status or a negative COVID-19 test prior to entry into the venue. For more information regarding the event and the many ways you can engage, please visit this link.

We know how powerful it can be when youth voices are lifted and amplified. In this short program, participants will learn the skills of telling your own story and translating it into digital media that can be shared far and wide. We will be joined by Seeds of Peace GATHER Fellow and NYC educator Molly Josephs, who runs a podcast with youth called This Teenage Life. At the end of the four sessions, participants will have composed and recorded their own dialogue/conversations on a topic of their choosing, which will be edited into a special Seeds of Peace episode of This Teenage Life podcast.

Registration Deadline: February 26th

Visit event page here.

We know how powerful it can be when youth voices are lifted and amplified. In this short program, participants will learn the skills of telling your own story and translating it into digital media that can be shared far and wide. We will be joined by Seeds of Peace GATHER Fellow and NYC educator Molly Josephs, who runs a podcast with youth called This Teenage Life. At the end of the four sessions, participants will have composed and recorded their own dialogue/conversations on a topic of their choosing, which will be edited into a special Seeds of Peace episode of This Teenage Life podcast.

Registration Deadline: February 26th

Visit event page here.