“People’s stories make for moving theater.”
— Viola Davis, upon accepting her Supporting Actress award at the 2017 Oscars“
Davis’s speech reminds us that actors do their best to disappear into the people they portray and tell their characters’ stories with grace and dignity. Nuestras Raíces is offering Theatricizing Oral Histories workshops to learn how we can transform ourselves to become the narrators from our Latino oral history project.