Storytelling in Practice: Collective Dreaming with Indigenous Communities

Join us for a conversation with feini yin about using both oral history and visionary fiction to build community power. feini will share insights from their collaborations with Indigenous communities to conjure thriving futures for Wild Salmon.

In this conversation, we'll explore topics including:

• Developing participatory interventions with and for Indigenous fishing communities
• Speculative fiction and dreaming as tools for envisioning collaborative co-existence with land, water, Salmon Peoples, and fish
• feini’s current participation in VOW’s Storyteller Initiative  and creating “In Our Wildest Salmon Dreams,” a multimedia storytelling project showcasing oral histories and visionary fiction from Salmon Protectors and BIPOC activists working toward fisheries restoration and food sovereignty

About the Storytelling in Practice event series:

What does oral history look like in practice? What goes into community-rooted storytelling projects and what are the outcomes? Voice of Witness is hosting a series of intimate conversations with practitioners who have developed and activated dynamic oral history projects. We’ll explore the connections between storytelling and community building, liberation, ethics, civic engagement, public art, narrative change, and more. Sharing reflections and challenges, VOW staff and guest speakers will offer insights into planning, conducting, and presenting oral history projects and their potential impact. This series was formerly called Oral History in Practice.

About feini yin:

feini yin is a journalist, community organizer, artist, and fishmonger working at the intersection of science, environment, food, and social justice living on Lenapehoking, so-called Philadelphia. They build power with family-scale and traditional fishing communities as an organizer with Block Corporate Salmon, the North American Marine Alliance, and Fishadelphia. They grew up in Philadelphia and New Jersey, in a Chinese immigrant household that ate fish every week, steamed whole with soy sauce and lots of aromatics.

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