DU Story Mosaic: Fall 2023 Storytelling Event

The Community + Values Team is excited to officially launch the DU Story Mosaic: Sharing Stories, Building Community,’ a storytelling initiative at DU. Join us on October 11th! Check out the information below to learn more and RSVP. Everyone is welcome!

Over the past year, our C+V team, C+V Steering Committee, and a cross-campus planning committee has been discussing ways for us as a community to learn from one another and practice reflection in our lives – with these goals in mind, we are excited to officially launch the ‘DU Story Mosaic: Sharing Stories, Building Community,’ a storytelling initiative at DU. The DU Story Mosaic is a cross-campus collaboration that recognizes the incredible power of storytelling. Modeled after the Human Library and building on our C+V Community Voices work, this initiative aims to bring together the entire DU Community to engage in a meaningful exchange of our unique stories. Our hope is that community members listen, learn from each other, and practice reflection to experience personal growth in the process. We also seek to inspire change within our organization through storytelling.  

The DU Story Mosaic will offer participants the opportunity to share stories through a variety of creative expressions, such as one-on-one and group conversations, spoken word, art, and poetry, both publicly and anonymously, to cultivate an embodied community experience where everyone can feel safe to be vulnerable and their authentic selves.  

This fall, we will be hosting an in-person story telling event for approximately 30-40 community members, including students, faculty, staff, and alums (details below). We invite any DU community member to join us for the event! Attendees can either share a story as a storyteller or RSVP as a listener participant. Please don’t hesitate to sign up to share your story as we would be honored if you do! We hope you can join us, but if you can’t, don’t worry, there will be plenty of opportunities to join us this coming academic year!

DU Story Mosaic Fall 2023 Event: Sharing Stories: Building Community

  • Date/Time: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm; Lunch will be provided, Attendees do not have to be present for all sessions

  • Location: Burwell Center for Career Achievement, Third Floor

  • The Theme this year is: What has been your path to DU? What brought you to DU and what does DU mean to you? Any stories may be shared.

  • Storyteller Logistic Details: If you want to be a storyteller, we would be honored! You can share a story that is between 5 – 10 minutes each. Storytellers can share any story that they would like around the theme. During a test soft launch event this past August, community members shared personal anecdotes about their lives leading up to DU, what led them to DU, how their experiences shape how they work with others at DU, and more. 

RSVP via the button below

RSVP as a storyteller or listener at this link

*If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email us at chase.mcnamee@du.edu and Kadijha.kuanda@du.edu. Thank you!