Annotation Exchange #1: A Reading Group on Narrative Change

Time: Friday 5 April 2024, 3:00-5:00 pm (HK time)

Place: The C-Centre, NAH 313 Humanities Building, CUHK

Format: Hybrid-for registered online attendees the ZOOM link will be sent via email prior to the event

Please register via this link: https://forms.office.com/r/denkkr8q9n by Tuesday, 1 April 2024

Contact: com-dns@cuhk.edu.hk

The Digital Narratives Studio (DNS) at the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce the launch of a new reading group format under its "Narrative Change" pillar. Finding a new approach to the traditional setting of an academic reading group, the DNS introduces the format of an Annotation Exchange (AnnEx) that puts authors, texts, and readers in a productive dialogue. Participants are invited to read newly published inspiring texts (academic, journalistic, artistic etc) or even unpublished drafts of leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of Narrative Change.

About the first Annotation Exchange

The first Annotation Exchange will take place on 5 April 2024 and feature inspiring recent works by Isabel Crabtree-Condor and Mandy Van Deven:

• Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources (Isabel Crabtree-Condor)
• How to Fund Narrative Ecosystems (Mandy Van Deven)
• How philanthropy can fund the infrastructure for narrative power (Mandy Van Deven)

Both authors will be present for the Annotation Exchange to engage in a dialogue with the readers/participants in small, collaborative groups.

More about the authors

Isabel Crabtree-Condor is a creative intersectional activist and advocate at heart, who loves connecting networks of diverse people around a common issue to collectively figure out fun ways forward. She is a trained political economist with 15+ years of experience across different geographies, languages and cultures. Part British-Part Peruvian, based in Amsterdam, narrative change work is her passion and she is a MEME aficionada. Isabel currently works for Oxfam Novib as a Senior Strategist and Influencing Advisor on Climate Justice, specializing in feminist influencing, narratives and collaborating with movements.

Mandy Van Deven is the founder of Both/And Solutions, a global consulting collective that draws on professional expertise and lived experience to provide strategic advice to individual wealth holders and philanthropic institutions, enable organizational and field learning, and design and implement funding initiatives that advance gender, racial, economic, and climate justice and build narrative power. She serves on the boards of Puentes and Thousand Currents, and is currently facilitating the emergence of a community of practice for funders that seek to fortify the narrative infrastructure of global justice movements.

More about the texts

Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources (Isabel Crabtree-Condor) In a time of ‘polycrisis’ where intersectional solutions are needed, the resource is a practical, workshop-able, guide to learning, unlearning and influencing at different levels using an intersectional, feminist, participatory approach.

How to Fund Narrative Ecosystems (Mandy Van Deven) Shares insights from global narrative practitioners that are uncommonly heard within philanthropy, and provides an in-depth analysis of the practice implications for funders that aim to support narrative work through grantmaking and capacity building.

How philanthropy can fund the infrastructure for narrative power (Mandy Van Deven) Shares a summary of a session where funders reflected on philanthropic practices that strengthen narrative change efforts — and sector norms that stand in the way. The article includes recommendations from global narrative practitioners on what philanthropy should fund in order to fortify the narrative infrastructure of social movements.

🕙 Friday 5 April 2024, 3-5 pm (HK time) 📍 The C-Centre, NAH 313 Humanities Building, CUHK