CALLING ALL STORYTELLERS

SpiralHeart is looking for a story or theme for 2024!

The time has come to begin planning for SpiralHeart Camp 2024!

Submissions are due by Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 11:59pm Eastern.

Story selections will be made at the September 17, 2023 community meeting, which can be attended online via Zoom.

Do you have a story and/or theme proposal?  

We’d love to hear it!

The form submission form can be found here.

If you will be unable to attend the September meeting either virtually or in-person, consider supplementing your submission with more information about your process for developing your ideas for this submission.  There are often questions brought up at the meeting about the proposal that need to be answered before selection.

Cultural Appropriation:

SpiralHeart seeks to embrace a diversity of cultures, and we have a clear recognition that the majority culture has exploited other cultures for their stories and traditions.  Cultural appropriation is defined as:  the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society (Oxford University Press, 2021).

As you consider stories or themes for Camp 2023, we encourage you to consider issues of cultural appropriation and take efforts to avoid submitting stories that take the risk of exploiting a non-dominant group.  Some of the questions that you may ask yourself (or that others may ask during a community meeting) include:

• Are you a member of the group or culture whose story or theme you are proposing?  Or is this story or theme part of your cultural legacy?  If not, what relationship do you have with the group in question?
• Is this story or theme part of the tradition of a non-dominant group or culture?
• Has the group or culture expressly invited other groups to participate in their stories and practices?
• What universal themes or insights does this story bring to camp that would benefit the community?  

Any questions about the proposal or selection process may be directed to agenda@spiralheart.org.

We are here to help!

 *The deadline for story/theme submissions is September 13, 2022.  The plan is to bundle the stories/themes and publish them widely by September 14, three days before the September 17 community meeting.  After the bundle is published, no further applications or submissions will be accepted for September consideration.