A SENSE of PLACE
We haven’t prepared an event this year as much as we’ve prepared places. Sitting in one room for several days, listening to lectures is inherently uninspiring. It doesn’t matter what the content is. So we’ve turned the idea of a conference on its head. We’ve spread the experience of STORY throughout the city. We want you to take-in the magnificent architecture that surrounds us and hear the rattling cars of the L from overhead. We want you to experience not only the performances and presentations of the event, but also the hot dog vendors, the beckoning storefronts and the sights of a city coming alive each morning. This is a festival for the senses. Environments shape us. And there is no more transformative place than Chicago’s River North. It inspires us to dream bigger, act more courageously, and conquer our fears and learning curves. After all, STORY is not just about this sense of place in Chicago, but your sense of place… your purpose and unique calling in life. My hope is that you’ll come away from STORY never-the-same… that this experience will be the dividing line between your before and after. This may come from a newfound friendship, a life-altering talk by one of our presenters or an introspective moment while crossing the Dearborn Street Bridge. However it may come, embrace that vision in spite of all the doubts, concerns, fears and worries that come with it. The STORY community has got your back. But it’s the sheer terror of pursuing an idea that lets you know you’re onto something. Yours,
Ben Arment, STORY Creator
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BLOOD BROTHER FEATURING THE SUNDANCE DOCUMENTARY WINNER BLOOD BROTHER Blood Brother is an intimate portrait of Rocky Braat, a young man who longed to find a family. As a boy, his mom was a drug addict with abusive boyfriends, and his father was a mystery to him until the age of seven. He didn't know it, but this desire would lead him to an AIDS hostel in India, a place of unspeakable hardship, where he would find almost more love and need than he could bear. Rocky had dreams of becoming a successful graphic designer, until one summer when he made an impromptu trip to India. He came upon a group of HIV/AIDS orphans and, to everyone’s surprise, decided to leave behind all that he had accomplished in order to give them what he felt they deserved. Unlike others who simply passed through their lives, Rocky stayed, dedicating himself to their health and well-being. To these orphans, he became “Rocky Anna,” which means ‘brother.’ This documentary, directed by Rocky’s longtime friend Steve Hoover, traces Rocky’s story of working in the village of Tamil Nadu, India since five years to present. The film illustrates his commitment to the children and their families who face life and death situations on a daily basis. It won best film in the documentary category at Sundance 2013. To learn how you can help Rocky, visit givethemlight.org.
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THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS THE POWER & USEFULNESS OF WENDELL BERRY’S SENSE OF PLACE | BY FELICITY WHITE
Wendell Berry, awarded the 2012 Jefferson Lecture by the
Specifically, that place is a small family farm in rural
National Endowment for the Humanities, is a writer who
Kentucky, the farm once operated by Berry’s ancestors.
defies the use of a single adjective to describe him. Among
From this homestead, Berry writes brilliant poems and
his introductions are ”poet, novelist, essayist” and “a writer
quiet novels and challenging essays. The place Berry
of almost incomparable breadth.” Instead of being known
describes is never romanticized but always deemed worthy
for a single genre, Berry is known for a single message. And
of the investment it demands. His literary following may
at the heart of that message is a deep and abiding sense of
be small, but they are as ruthlessly devoted to him as he is to
place.
the hillsides and livestock in his care.
His writing happens in the margins between plowing
listen to the wood drake and the heron: “I come into the
fields, mending fences, and raking hay above the banks of
peace of wild things/ who do not tax their lives with
the Kentucky River. But it isn’t the farm in Kentucky that
forethought/ or grief.” The poem closes: “For a time/ I rest
appeals to his readers as much as the more general way he
in the grace of the world, and am free”.
finds his purpose and fulfillment in that farm. He is famous for rants against industrialized farming and technological take-over. But readers don’t read Berry to learn more about Kentucky (although more than a few have been known to take up bee keeping or plant a row of cherry tomatoes); they read Berry to learn about how to find a Kentucky of their own.
The power of a poem is to evoke for the reader a specific person, place, or emotion. Berry’s poem “The Peace of Wild Things” describes a rural landscape but it becomes more than that – as the best poems are meant to do. Suddenly Berry’s place of peace and calm becomes our place of peace and calm. I’ve never sat beside a Kentucky pond after dark, but I have an idea now of what it must feel like. I know
The band Paper Route titled their most recent release “The
because Berry’s poem established that sense of place for me.
Peace of Wild Things” after a Wendell Berry poem of the
Though it describes a local pond, the poem’s real power is
same name. The poem invokes the same sense of calm that
the way it becomes a universal pond for its readers. Our
permeates the final cut on the album, a song called “Calm
pond is Berry’s poem and we find the peace of wild things
My Soul.” In the poem, Berry’s speaker is worried about his
in its reading. This is the power and usefulness of Wendell
life and the future of his children. In response, he goes out
Berry’s sense of place.
to the pond on his property and lies down after dark to
Felicity White is a creative writing student in the MFA program at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She blogs occasionally at felicitywhite.com, where she brags about her four kids, her forbearing husband, and the new city of which she’s trying to get a sense. felicitywhite.com
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THE RADIO MAN AN INTERVIEW WITH RADIOLAB’S GENRE-BENDING, OBSESSIVE CO-HOST, JAD ABUMRAD
STORY: You studied creative writing and music composition at Oberlin College in Ohio. After graduating in 1995, you composed film scores. How did you end up in public radio? Abumrad: It was fortuitous. I ended up getting out of school and very firmly had the idea that I would go off and try and be a working film composer, which was an idea I had for a long, long time. And I tried that for a while. I wrote a couple of scores for student films and for dance pieces and for one feature, and it just was really hard. I just kind of had a wow-this-isn't-working moment. And all through that I had been trying to freelance write, do some sort of small stories and write some short stories. I was talking to my girlfriend, who's now my wife, and she Jad Abumrad is the co-host of RadioLab, a radio show and
says, “Why don't you just do radio because that's kind of
podcast that explores questions at the intersection of
middle ground between these two things. You have to
science and the human experience with an organic,
write. It's got a sound. Why don't you just try that?” And I
engaging aesthetic. Over a plate of eggs at WNYC’s New
remember just being like, “Huh. That's an interesting idea.”
York studio, ahead of embarking on his 21-city
And then suddenly I just started volunteering for a
APOCALYPTICAL tour—featuring a live version of the
community radio station in Lower Manhattan called
show—Jad talked with STORY about his journey from
WBAI. And that place was so chaotic that you could just
composer to journalist, learning a craft while no one’s
walk in and they'd hand you a kit and send you out to cover
watching, and why he is a self-described “champion of
some news. And one thing led to another and I ended up a
obsessives.”
year or two later at WNYC freelancing.
STORY: What was it like to be learning a new craft on the fly, in your late 20s?
STORY: How did your big break come along? Abumrad: For reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, the
Abumrad: It was the early passage that I had to walk. It took
a.m. schedule got kind of scrambled and all these spots
me a really long time to do anything that I would consider
opened up on the late at night, in the wee hours when no
interesting. So you have this really horrible awareness that
one was listening. So the program director at the time just
you're not making good things and that most people die a
sort of grabbed me and he was like, “Hey, you want to do
lonely death in that little tragic gap. So, yeah, that gap was
something in this little spot?” And he had the name, “Radio
a long, long stretch for me.
Lab”, and he was like, “Yeah, just kind of make it a lab.” And
STORY: During this gap, you and your now cohost Robert Krulwich collaborated on a piece for “This American Life.” Ira Glass described it as one of the
it was a lab in this sort of—not so much the science sense but more like in the mad scientist sense. A little bit weird. And so from that moment until now, it's pretty much a blur. STORY: In your Twitter profile, you describe yourself as
worst things he had ever heard. Abumrad: Ira rightfully thought it was the worst thing he
a “champion of obsessives.” Why?
ever heard. And I remember being just stunned at his
Abumrad: I care about and fuss over the work to a degree
reaction. We all pray at the Church of Ira, you know? And
that I used to be ashamed of. Like it just felt unbalanced.
so I was just like, “I'm never going anywhere [again].” But
Like why should a little radio story feel like life or death?
Robert was like, “No. He's just wrong. He's just wrong.”
Doesn't make any logical sense. But I've come to feel
And I remember Robert's certainty—irrational certainty
differently about it. As I've grown older and seen the ups
because it really [did] suck. That was what kept me going
and downs, letting go isn't quite as hard, and at the same
initially.
time I've realized that actually, there's a beauty and a joy in an endless, irrational devotion to the thing you do.
Adam Wren: Writer & journalist whose work has appeared in Inc. Magazine & Entrepeneur.com. adamwren.net
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HOWARD LICHTER GLOBAL DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE OUTREACH, NIKE
Originally from the Seattle, Howard graduated with a degree in industrial design from the University of Washington. In 1996, he moved to Portland, Oregon, where heʼs spent the past 15 years working as a designer and creative director for Nike. Howard spent three years with Nikeʼs retail design team, focused on the creation of architecture, interiors and communication for Niketowns. He then moved to the brand design division, serving as creative director for the Asia Pacific region, taking on a variety of projects including events, identity, communication and brand positioning for cities throughout Asia and Australia. In 2004, Howard moved to Tokyo full-time to develop and oversee a small satellite design studio for Nike. Located in the Nakameguro district, the studio housed a small team of cross-disciplinary designers developing footwear, apparel and equipment specifically for the Japanese consumer. After 5 years in Tokyo, Howard returned to Portland as global creative director for store design, overseeing the design and development of Nikeʼs most recent retail program. In January of 2011, Howard took on the role of global director for creative outreach, overseeing Nikeʼs relationships throughout the global design community, as well as the onboarding, communication and developmental programming for Nikeʼs internal team of 600+ designers.
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SCOTT HARRISON FOUNDER OF CHARITY:WATER
Scott Harrison is the founder and president of charity: water, a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to developing nations. He spent 10 years as an event promoter in New York City before leaving to volunteer on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia as a photojournalist. Returning home to New York two years later, he founded charity: water to address the global water crisis and the 1 billion people without clean water to drink. He created innovative public installations and unique online fundraising platforms to spread international awareness of the issue. In four years, with the help of more than 200,000 donors worldwide, charity: water has funded more than 3,800 water projects in 17 developing nations. Those projects will provide over 1.7 million people with clean, safe drinking water. Scott was recently named one of Fast Company’s most creative people in business.
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Stepping onto the American Idol™ stage just weeks after his first wife’s unexpected death, danny gokey experienced both the pinnacle of hope and the depth of despair. as life unfolded, he learned that true purpose is sometimes born out of our darkest moments. he has overcome difficult circumstances by focusing his energy on investing in others. now danny wants you to experience that same promise of hope. his down-to-earth encouragement and positive outlook will transform your life and show how you can move toward hope and take the next step to truly make a difference.
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CHUCK ANDERSON Chuck Anderson, also known by his studio's name NoPattern, is an artist & designer from Grand Rapids, MI. Chuck began NoPattern in 2003 in his hometown of Chicago within months of graduating high school. Since then, Chuck has gone on to work for international brands & agencies such as Microsoft, Nike, Target, Reebok, ESPN and many more. He has become well known for his use of intense, vibrant light and unexpected color as well as his often-chaotic illustration style.
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BROOKE SHADEN Brooke Shaden was born in March of 1987 in Lancaster, PA, USA. She grew up near the "Amish Country" until attending Temple University. Brooke was photographically born in December 2008 after graduating from Temple with two degrees: film and English. She now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two cats. She began creating self-portraits for ease and to have full control over the images and has since grown into a self-portrait artist. Self-portraiture for her is not autobiographical in nature. Instead, she attempts to place herself within worlds she wishes we could live in, where secrets float out in the open, where the impossible becomes possible. Brooke works to create new worlds within her photographic frame. By using painterly techniques as well as the square format, traditional photographic properties are replaced by otherworldly elements. Brooke's photography questions the definition of what it means to be alive. In 2011, Brooke was one of the winners of Canon's Project Imagination photo contest.
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SCOTT BRAUT Scott Braut is the Vice President of Content for Shutterstock, a leading global provider of high-quality stock photography, vectors, illustrations and footage. Within this role, Scott also serves as the Vice President of Content for Offset, Shutterstock’s recently launched a new brand featuring a curated collection of extraordinary imagery from top assignment photographers and image collections around the world. Scott started his career in 1994 at the Associated Press, the world’s largest news organization and one of the earliest champions of digital imagery. Prior to Shutterstock, Scott served as the Senior Product Manager at ABCNEWS.com, where he co-led a successful site redesign, launching a new content presentation framework for lifestyle programs, political news and investigative journalism.
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Each year, a group of audacious people goes through a process to achieve a larger-than-life dream over the course of a year. The participants include everyone from filmmakers and activists to entrepreneurs and authors. No dream is too big, and no idea is too far-fetched. The journey is called Dream Year. There are three ways to participate: Attend a weekend retreat, where you'll learn how to bring a dream to life; pick-up a copy of the soon-to-be-released book Dream Year, which comes with access to a free online course; or contact us for coaching and on-site training. Let the journey begin.
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MEL MCGOWAN Mel McGowan is President and founder of Visioneering Studios, which is a national architecture, urban planning, and construction firm with offices in Orange County, Phoenix, Denver, Austin, Chicago, and Charlotte. Mel combined his background in film and urban design during a decade long stint at the Walt Disney Company. He speaks extensively on sustainable community and is the author of Design Intervention: Revolutionizing Sacred Space.
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RICK ROTHSCHILD Rick Rothschild has directed and produced over 25 separate Disney attractions during a 30 year tenure as a creative senior executive at Walt Disney Imagineering. He led a variety of concept development teams that explored new attractions, theme parks and other resort, recreation and immersive experience related business lines. His work at Disney included consulting with a number of prestigious museums and educational institutions. Rick received his degree with honors in Theater Design from Lawrence University and attended the MFA Theater Arts program at UCLA. He served as scenic and lighting designer and technical director on over 100 productions prior to joining Disney in 1978. Now Rick runs FAR Out! Creative Direction, which blends his unique set of entertainment skills, developed over 40 years in the world of theater, Disney theme parks, media and museums.
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STEPHANIE PEREIRA Stephanie Pereira is the director of arts programs at Kickstarter. She has spent the past 10 years working with artists and arts organizations to catalyze creative communities through both on- and offline engagement. Stephanie previously served as Associate Director, Learning & Engagement at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, a non-profit residency center in New York City. She holds an MA in Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BFA in Visual Art from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
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DONNA BOYER Donna Boyer is a self-confessed product geek obsessed with building smart technology that enables creative people to innovate. Donna started out at the Harvard Business Review where she researched and covered the impact of technology on the global economy. Since then she has focused on how to empower creative people to bring beauty and outstanding user experience into the digital world. Before Blurb, Donna was VP of Product at Calloway Digital Arts where she worked with publishers to produce award-winning illustrated books for the iPad. As Chief Product Officer at Blurb, she is leading the charge into the digital space and helping design-minded customers optimize their storytelling for a new medium; the tablet.
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A PLACE TO CALL HOME AUTHOR OF THE INVISIBLE GIRLS SHARES WHAT HOME REALLY IS | BY SARAH THEBARGE
When I was a little girl, I had a very concrete sense of home. It was a simple home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where I lived with my parents and siblings. Home had three bedrooms and a kitchen and a living room and an expansive back yard with a swing set and a basketball hoop. Home was place I could point to on a map and say, I belong here. I grew up, finished grad school on the East Coast, and then moved to Portland, Oregon, where I met a Somali woman and her daughters on the train. The woman looked exhausted and overwhelmed, so I asked for her address. A few days later, I showed up to find her and her little girls living in a tiny, freezing cold apartment with no clothes or furniture or food. At night they huddled together under the only blanket they owned, trying not to freeze to death. I started going back, helping the family in any way I could with food, clothes, and friendship. After working with the family for a few months, I realized that I could never fix everything that
“After working with the family for a few months, I realized that I could never fix everything that was broken in their situation.�
was broken in their situation. As badly as I wanted to, I could never rescue them from all of the pain they’d experienced in their lives. And I could never move them out of their sparse apartment. But what I could do was be with these girls. I could eat dinner and then dance through the apartment with them. I could help them with their homework and answer questions they had about America. I could hold them as they cried for their absent father, and sing them lullabies until they fell asleep. As I developed a deepening relationship with the family, my idea of home started to change. Maybe home isn’t a place with bedrooms and doorways and staircases and land. Maybe home isn’t an expensive piece of real estate, but a free gift meant to be freely given. Maybe, in its truest and most important form, home is the experience of being loved and accepted. Home is a warm smile and open arms and a soft whisper assuring us, You belong here.
Sarah Thebarge earned a masters degree in Medical Science from Yale School of Medicine and was studying Journalism at Columbia University when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 27. Her irst book, The Invisible Girls, was released in April. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
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KERRY BELLESSA Kerry Bellessa was born and raised in Seattle, WA, which affected his taste in music (90's grunge forever) and his demeanor (he always thinks it's going to rain). As a boy, he grew up watching Goonies and Spaceballs, wishing that one day, he too could make movies. He took that dream to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he earned a degree in Film and Television and started directing commercials and music videos. After many attempts at making a feature film, he directed Amber Alert, a found-footage thriller. Kerry is proof that with patience, hard work and gumption, you can reach your dreams.
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BOBETTE BUSTER Bobette Buster is an Adj. Professor in the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC and on the Guest Faculty of Pixar, Disney Animation, Sony Animation, Twentieth Century Fox, and others. She was also a Disney Fellows Finalist 2007. Bobette worked with Tony Scott for seven years, in development (associate producer on Revenge), and was a Production Consultant with Larry Gelbart (Weapons of Mass Distraction and Barbarians At The Gate). She was also the Production Coordinator on the PBS Special, “In Search of Excellence.� She is the author of DO STORY: How To Tell Your Story So The World Listens.
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MEL MCGOWAN Mel McGowan is President and founder of Visioneering Studios, which is a national architecture, urban planning, and construction firm with offices in Orange County, Phoenix, Denver, Austin, Chicago, and Charlotte. Mel combined his background in film and urban design during a decade long stint at the Walt Disney Company. He speaks extensively on sustainable community and is the author of Design Intervention: Revolutionizing Sacred Space
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A SMALL NATION OF MY OWN LEARNING WHAT IT MEANS TO CREATE BELONGING AND REAL COMMUNITY | BY SARAH BRAY
My parents were dreamers. Where most people would see a street filled with criminals and junkies, my parents saw a two-story pillared white Victorian wrapped in wrought iron, all within their newlywed budget. They bought the house. If houses have feelings, ours suffered total rejection with bravery. It was broken into seven times in the five years we lived there. The neighbors stuck my little brother in a trashcan. Someone snuck into my second-story bedroom to plug-in an extension cord and drape it out the window for electricity. I saw shadows in the leaded glass windows. When we moved away for my dad to sell it (which took seven years), neighbors spray-painted the living room, the hallways, the stairs. I could only imagine what they wrote — I never knew. My dad would clean it up for it to re-appear weeks later. I thought it was magic paint. After that, every ordinary childhood snub felt like rejection to be suffered with bravery. I started to daydream about becoming the
“Without knowing it, I had started building my own nation of people who loved what I loved and wanted what I wanted.”
first female President of the United States. I would bring
thrown together by geographical happenstance, but
acceptance and belonging to this country, or at least to myself, if
magnetically drawn together by shared values. It started
only my friends who were older than me would please, please
with a few people, and then it grew to thousands.
choose another profession (that was my second biggest fear -
Without knowing it, I had started building my own
that I would have to resign myself to becoming the second
nation of people who loved what I loved and wanted what
female President of the United States).
I wanted. I guess you could say I became President after
I eventually gave up my idea of becoming President. I was
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interested in books and writing and this new thing called the
I’ve spent the past two years studying what it takes to
Internet, and the President didn't seem to have much to do with
create belonging and real community, no matter where
those things. After I got home from school, I would stalk
you live. There are so many fascinating issues to think
magazines for AOL keywords, sign up for any newsgroup or
about — how to be a clear beacon in a noisy world, how to
Listserv even remotely related to my interests, and “view source,”
create financial sustainability without sacrificing
“view source,” “view source”.
integrity, and how to build real community and not just
I grew up, and the Internet grew up with me. I got married, went to college, and used my spare hours to study design and entertain myself with code. I started my own web design studio, specializing in content-driven websites — a concept my local community wasn't ready for, as evidenced by many awkward coffee shop meetings. I took myself out of local search.
the appearance of one. Mostly, I am interested in what happens when we make it possible for people to be free to be what they were made to be, in a community where everyone belongs and no one feels misunderstood or rejected. There are as many nations to be founded as there are people in need of one. And if nations have feelings, this one is full of hope.
In removing my work from a hometown that didn't understand the value in it, I discovered a new set of neighbors — ones not
Sarah J. Bray is a writer, designer, and nation-builder.
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