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The Stories of Us is at ESSENCE Fest! Please visit us in the Festival's Wellness House from July 4-6, 2025.
The Stories of Us is at ESSENCE Fest!
Please visit us at the Festival's Wellness House between July 4-6, 2025.
An exhibition for everyone.
We are our stories. The stories we are told. The stories we tell. The Stories of Us sculpture exhibitions invite you to discover our shared past; understand our shared present; and reimagine how we can make equality and solidarity a reality in our future, together.
These are the stories of us - our past, present and future.
Let's make our shared ideals a reality. For everyone.
We are delighted to bring this exhibition of 10
sculptures to ESSENCE Festival of Culture. Through sharing their deeply personal stories, our incredible artists invite you to reflect on how far we have come as a nation to make the ideals of equality and solidarity a reality and, crucially, how far we still have to go and how we can get there.
We are delighted to bring this exhibition of 10 sculptures to the ESSENCE Festival of Culture. Through sharing their deeply personal stories, our incredible artists invite you to reflect on how far we have come as a nation to make the ideals of equality and solidarity a reality and, crucially, how far we still have to go and how we can get there.
The Stories of Us believes that by sharing more stories – everyone’s stories – we all have the chance to discover and to be transformed by the stories of one another and truly step into the spirit of dignity and connection.
It is what we call Transformative Solidarity - a solidarity in which we recognise and embrace each other’s realities, potential and humanity as essential to our own. The exhibition serves as an invitation for all of us to reimagine who we want to be and the impact we can have if we step into that spirit.
It is the revolution of the soul the future calls us to.
Let's make our shared ideals a reality. For everyone.
Let's make our shared ideals a reality.
For all.
In 2026, the Declaration of Independence turns 250 years old. In its simple words "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" we discover the promise of America: the twin ideals of equality and solidarity. Two ideas that shape our very identity as a country - and yet they weren’t a reality then and they aren’t reality now.
In the unique storytelling spaces our exhibitions create, The Stories of Us invites everyone to come together to discover more about our shared past and understand our shared present so that we can ask as we look to the future - how can we make the Declaration’s ideals of equality and solidarity a reality, together?
We are the creators of our future. Inequality and division are not our preordained fate. We can choose a different future. In 2026, we have an opportunity to view our founding documents and the ideals within them as a call to action:
We are all invited to act to make those ideals a reality and join in the effort of perfecting our union - for all. It’s up to us.
THE EXHIBITION
THE EXHIBITION
For everyone. For you.
By all of us. Join us.
PURPOSE
in our relationship with ourselves.
WORTHINESS
I am worthy of love dignity and respect.
AWARENESS
I know how I see the world and where it comes from.
BELIEF
I believe I have something valuable to offer.
PURPOSE
I know what inspires me and what I want to do.
For everyone. For you. By all of us. Join us.
THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS
We are deeply grateful for our partners that have made this exhibition possible.
We are deeply grateful for our partners that have made this exhibition possible:
