Please join us for the fourth and final event in FSNE’s 2022 Winter Series, bringing regional food system participants and aligned friends together to dig into our shared work, learn together, get inspired, and deepen our connections to one another. Please come for part of all of this event.
In addition to strengthening our regional network, centering racial equity, and embedding our shared values into the regional policy landscape, FSNE knows that employing strategic narrative and framing wisdom is a critical part of the culture change we need in order to transform our food system. Without shifting the way our region thinks about food and related systems, we will continue to struggle to shift actions and behaviors that are desperately needed now.
Building narrative power often has two parts: 1) co-creating and deploying effective strategic framing and messaging by multiple groups, across many platforms over time and, 2) disrupting and de-powering the dominant narratives that actively harm people and places. How do we do that? How do we integrate this aspect of our work into the New England Food Vision?
As we explore the idea of building narrative power with our guests and our panel of practitioners, we will be considering questions like:
- What does it look like when the lived experience of impacted communities is central to creating the solutions to our collective challenges? Who is involved in the knowledge-creation that we privilege or rely upon to create plans, programs, and policies?
- Whose stories get “air time?” Who gets to share those stories?
- How do we share stories that lift up harm reduction in parallel with the urgent need to address root causes at this critical time in our culture?
- How can storytelling and communications about our future food system be a powerful form of activism?
- How can we do better at painting compelling and irresistible pictures of a just and resilient food system that works for everyone, while being honest about the challenges and forces that would prevent us from getting there? (i.e. speak the truth, but don’t feed crisis fatigue).
This event will feature guests and panelists from Real Food Real Stories, Susu Community Farm, Resources Organizing for Social Change, and more! Full guest details coming soon.
Hosted by: Food Solutions New England
For registration and more information please visit: https://foodsolutionsne.org/event/fsne-winter-series-4-narrative-power/
