World Mother Storytelling is a participatory multimedia arts movement that uses mother storytelling as a conduit to empathy, human connection, and social transformation.
Through multimedia exhibitions, live performance, education, podcasts, public storytelling, and community engagement, World Mother invites people to explore the stories of the mothers and mother figures who shaped their lives.
“At a moment of profundity cultural and political divisions… the World Mother Storytelling Project is an effort the world needs now. Very few stories are at once universal and wildly divergent… motherhood is one of the few live arenas that is shared by everyone and yet also strangely obscured from our close attention. Mothers at last merit this.”
— SARAH STILLMAN
PULITZER PRIZE WINNING JOURNALIST STAFF WRITE AT THE NEW YORKER
MULTI MEDIA EXHIBITION
CONDUIT
An Immersive Art and Storytelling Exhibit Celebrating Mothers Featuring the Mother Stories of Sugar Hill Community Members
Blending storytelling, painting and music, the show features stories by community members and portraits by renowned realist painter Doug Safranek.
LIVE PERFORMANCE
WORLD MOTHER LIVE
World Mother Live is an interactive, global storytelling event and theatrical program that utilizes the Narativ storytelling method to teach people how to deeply listen to, and retell, the untold stories of their mothers to heal trauma and build empathy.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
BREAKING THE SILENCE IN EL SALVADOR
Funded by the U.S. Department of State, we embarked on a pilot project to reduce gender-based violence in El Salvador. In partnership with local NGO Glasswing, World Mother trained Salvadoran community workers to empower and uplift 9- to 18-year-old girls across the country.