The Telling Project
It's time to speak. It's time to listen.The Telling Project
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OUR MISSION:
The Telling Project works with communities and organizations to produce “Telling,” – an innovative performance in which military veterans and their family members, after interviews and subsequent training and rehearsal, stage the ‘telling’ of their stories for their communities. The Telling Project creates opportunities for veterans to speak and their communities to listen.
Since February, 2008, The Telling Project has produced 11 performances throughout the Pacific Northwest and, most recently, in Washington, DC. We have interviewed over 50 veterans and family members, and put 21 of these folks on stage to tell their stories.
We have been covered in local, regional and and national media, and are currently developing new productions across the nation.
The Telling Project promotes and practices the fundamental principles of honesty and open-mindedness in the belief that these are the underpinnings of a free and democratic society.
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This comment is from Bill Mithoefer, sent to me via Facebook and in response to “Ash Wednesday.” Thanks for your words, Bill.
I guess it resonates with me because I remember very distinctly sitting in my little teenage hideaway off the living room in Accra when the military started shelling the broadcast house across the street. The first mortar that hit shook the wall of the house so much that I thought we were having a major end of Accra as we know it earthquake. Then I walked outside and hung out with all of the neighbors watching the Ghanaian troops continue to launch mortars across the street from where they were set up a couple of houses away, and it turned into our afternoon entertainment.
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This comment string is from Joe Cantrell, a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, and Josh Coombs – in relation to Josh’s “Ash Wednesday” clip.
Joe Cantrell at 5:54pm December 22
Takes me back to the day Dan Johnstone, the guy Danielle’s named after, and I were walking back to the boat from lunch in the officers’ mess at My Tho, in the Mekong Delta. A Vietnamese Navy guy about 50 yards away kicked his Honda starter, where some clever VC had tied a grenade under the gas tank with a wire to the starter, and well, you know…
It’s still very hard to go back through that stuff, and the power of your production gets RIGHT AT IT.
Joshua Coombs at 6:11pm December 22
So, Jon, you wanted my reaction to the clip…
Well, to be honest, I generally don’t like watching myself speak, because I’m either overly-critical of myself, or I feel like I’m bathing in narcissism. Watching it, I didn’t think it would have any affect on me, considering that, well a) I lived the experience, and b) I remember giving the monologue. Well, the end of it still kinda made my hair stand on end. That’s all.
Joe Cantrell at 7:38pm December 22
Joshua, thanks for the scream. You spoke for millions of us.