Dance Palace

Like many other organizations, the Dance Palace on the coastal side of California’s Marin County was devastated by COVID.  A hub of community life built around the arts, everything either stopped or radically transformed in 2020. The leadership of the Dance Palace decided to use the disruption to reground themselves in community and to work […]

Paradise, California

In the year after the Camp Fire destroyed Paradise, California, and other communities on the Ridge on November 8, 2018, NewStories spent a week every month listening to people’s stories, and inviting people into connection and explorations with each other. By the end of 2019, we joined with local leaders to create a new nonprofit—Regenerating […]

Japan

NewStories spent six years working with people in communities across Japan after the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear explosions on March 11, 2011. Our work began simply with listening, bearing witness, standing with. Our listening led to convenings, bringing people in different communities together with each other and bringing people from different communities […]