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february 27, 2018
Our inaugural Storytelling Event was hosted at the beautiful Ebell of Los Angeles. Guest speakers included Amy Wakeland-Garcetti, Councilperson David Ryu and Tommy Newman of United Way. The event featured CSH Speak Up!, Imagine LA and Safe Parking LA organizations.
JUNE 6, 2018
Grand Performances provided the backdrop for the CSH Speak Up! Storytelling Evening hosted during the
CSH National Summit. Home Girl Catering provided a southwest summer spread. Among the images,
Deborah De Santis, President and CEO of CSH pictured with a Speak Up! Advocate before the show.
JUNE 20, 2018
The Brig in Venice hosted our event in partnership with the United Way’s Everyone In. Choux Choux catering served a delicious Mediterranean fair dinner to 300 guests who were sure to be satisfied with the starry night sky and the incredibly moving personal stories told by formerly homeless people. City Councilperson Mike Bonin also told his powerful personal story. Speakers included United Way of Greater LA CEO Elise Buik and Stories founder Marilyn Wells. Emcee for the evening was Harry Shearer.
November 8, 2018
The fanciful Mariachi Plaza provided the setting for our 4th Stories From The Frontline event. City lights and sounds, unique to Boyle Heights set the stage as we relished flavorful tamales and enchiladas made by local street vendors while listening to a colorful Mariachi Band. Formerly homeless people from Boyle Heights shared inspiring personal stories. Our guest speakers included Josefina Lopez, actress, restaurateur and founder/artistic director Casa1010, David Valdez and Untied Way of Greater LA CEO, Elise Buik.
February 26, 2019
The beautiful Museum of Latin American Art provided the setting for our 6th Stories From The Frontline event. Frida Khalo art set the stage as we relished flavorful burgers and cheesecakes made by TGIS. Formerly homeless people from Long Beach shared inspiring personal stories. Our emcee was James Suazo and Untied Way of Greater LA CEO, Elise Buik. Singers Mike Jelks and Loren Elam inspired us all with their amazing original song.
February 20 & 24, 2019
The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles provided the setting for our 7th and 8th Stories From The Frontline events. David Ryu eloquently set the stage as we relished delectable sandwiches and desserts donated in part by Le Pain Quotidien. Formerly homeless people from all over Los Angeles shared inspiring personal stories. Angie Aramayo from Mayor Garcetti’s office and Tommy Newman of the United Way of Greater LA provided info about the new Bridge Home and Supportive Housing in the area.
May 9, 2019
Stories From The Frontline and Everyone In teamed up again to put on another inspiring event in Noho. The event focused on the numerous factors that are unique to seniors who are experiencing homelessness. Three formerly unhoused speakers shared their personal stories of recovery from homelessness, each story full of wisdom and gratitude. Emily Martinuk faced the audience with tears in her eyes, saying, “If YOU fell into homelessness, what would you want your homelessness to look like? I know you would want to meet a caring person who would help you.” She added, “I am forever grateful for the help I received and the support I get at my supportive housing.”
We thank the PRESS who attended and we appreciate the positive coverage of three powerful stories of perseverance and resilience.
May 16, 2019
Stories From The Frontline is focusing on getting our neighbors to open their ADUs, guest houses, or spare rooms to graduates of the Alexandria House. They will provide all support services for both the home owner as well as the graduates. The need is because once the graduate is employed and wilst looking for affordable housing, by temporarily living as a guest in one of our houses, the Alexandria House can open the newly vacant room for a woman in need. We were at capacity and are so grateful to all that came out through the suprising May rain.
June 11,2019
The Writer’s Guild Foundation hosted and evening of storytelling and pannel discussion in the Shavelson-Webb Library. The evening focus an effort to bring more stories on the silver screen of the triumph and recovery from homelessness. Our community partners were ImagineLA, CSH SpeakUp!. Our amazing emcee was the actor/writer Mike O’Malley. Our story tellers ranged from a high school senior and his mother, a college student, to three eloquent speakers in their 30s and 40s. We dont often have pannel discussion after, but in this attemp to get stories of recovery from homelessness on the big and little screens, we thought it might inspire the writers who came if they could ask questions after the speakers had told their stories. Mike O’Malley did an amazing job of curating the discussion.
June 27, 2019
Stories From The Frontline and Everyone In teamed up again to put on another inspiring event Pasadena. Hosted by Polytechnic School, and Pie & Burger fed us. Three formerly unhoused speakers shared their personal stories of recovery from homelessness, each story full of wisdom and gratitude.
We thank the PRESS who attended and we appreciate the positive coverage of three powerful stories of perseverance and resilience. Click here for a great story about the event and us!
July 19, 2019
Wanderlust hosted our July Stories From the Frontline event. United Way’s Everyone In was our amazing partner and helped put on a great evening. Showtime’s Shamless Stars Emma Kenny and Ethan Cutkosky were great Emcees. We had Hollywoods amazing service providers represented by The Center at Blessed Sacrement, Hollywood Community Housing, Works, and Million Drops, plus others. Wanderlust fed us the most wonderful food and we would recommend going there any time, not just for yoga.
September 26, 2019
Storytelling at the Coffee Connection again in partnership with United Way Everyone In. A great and most generous couple told their story of participating in Spy’s program to let your ADU out to a teen looking for a secure place to live.
november 18, 2019
The Rev. Kate Kress invited Stories from the Frontline to St James Church. The team at St Jame’s is doing a tremendous amount of outreach for our unhoused neighbors. They serve 100s a week from their food pantry and soup-kitchen. They host shower of hope once a week, besides the ministry. The focus of the evening was to create more understanding and tolerence between the outreach the church does and the concerned parent population at the school.
We brought in speakers with lived experience, a great peom from Micheal Nadar. The evening also included a pannel of experts with time for the audience to ask questions, and engage with local service providers, represenatives from Councilmember Ryu’s office. We brought in images of affordable, and supportive housing. The following day, speaker/author Angela M. Sanchez, gave age appropriate presentations to the students at St Jame’s School.
The three day event concluded with a public reading and Q&A Chavielers Booksellers on
Larchmont for the broader Handcock neighbors.
February 2020
The New Year brought a new way of bringing stories of success to the forefront. Stories From The Frontline began filming a series of video stories that focus on the SOLUTIONS THAT WORK.
Here are some behind the scenes photos and the video which is focused on David Ryu’s repurposing of the Gardner Street Library into a beautiful heaven for unhoused women as they transition from the street to affordable housing.
Don’t miss watching our 1st Solutions That Work video which highlights David Ryu’s repurposing of the Gardner Street Library into a beautiful haven for unhoused women as they
transition from the street to affordable housing.
