At a glance
- Category
- Holistic Healthcare
- How it's listed
- Found in our own research. Its site was confirmed live and serving the military community on . That is a check that it exists, not a judgement that it is good.
- Website
- thetellingproject.org
About The Telling Project
Published by The Telling Project on their own website. Quoted here in full as they wrote it.
The Mission:
The Telling Project is a national performing arts non-profit that employs theater to deepen our understanding of the military and veterans’ experience. Greater understanding fosters receptivity, easing veterans’ transitions back to civil society, and allowing communities to benefit from the skills and experience they bring with them. Through this understanding, a community deepens its connection to its veterans, itself, and its place in the nation and the world.
The Work
The most direct path to understanding veterans’ experience is person-to-person contact. With the dramatic decline in the numbers serving in the military – less than one percent of the population over the last eleven years of war – this contact will not happen through day-to-day life. It must be created and supported. Through performance, The Telling Project puts veterans and military family members in front of their communities to share their stories. We give veterans and military family members the opportunity to speak, and their communities the opportunity to listen.
History
Since 2008, The Telling Project has produced 40+ original performances, put over 180 veterans and family members on stage and performed in 16 states across the nation. It has been featured by PBS, the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, NPR, Inside Higher Ed and others, and supported by the Bob Woodruff Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Institution and others. In 2009, The Telling Project, which is based in Austin, TX, received 501(c)(3) status as a non-profit.
Telling Project Reviews:
“I cannot begin to put into words how important this experiencehas been for me. I could not recommend it enough for any veteran in America. We all have our own stories to tell, and the nation needs to hear them.” – John K., Veteran
“Telling was a life changing experience. It gave me strength and courage to share my story and a platform to heal.” – Salina L., Veteran & Military Spouse
“My unspoken truth kept me in dark places in my head, and the Telling Project shed light into that, which set me free. I could not heal alone.“ – Dee B., Veteran & Military Spouse
“No words can describe the brilliance of this performance. My heartfelt gratitude to the tellers. All your stories are so intellectually and emotionally honest and compelling. I salute you. You have given the public such important perspective.” – Janis J., Audience Member
“The Telling did what theater at its best does: Start a conversation. The performances were very true and compelling, and the impact on the audience was extraordinary.” -Martha S., Audience Member
“We need these in every neighborhood, for every veteran…I know the needs vets have from the inside, and I know that your project meets one of our deep needs.“-Harlan W., Veteran
Who We Are:
Jonathan Wei – Founder, Executive Director
Our write-up
The Telling Project is in our directory because we went looking for resources in this category and confirmed theirs is real and serving this community. What you see above is their own description, quoted from their site. We have not yet added our own write-up — the programs, eligibility and military fit that we check ourselves — and we would rather leave that blank than guess at it.
In the meantime, their official site is the authority: thetellingproject.org
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