Explore the Projects


Stories for All brings together over forty community and University of Kansas partner projects. This page enables you to identify partner projects that interest you and takes you to their websites.

You can search and filter projects by topic, partner, or digital genre. Please contact storiesforall@ku.edu if you have any difficulties.
a group of people of BLACKLawrence Project

BLINK!

This documentary storytelling project shows how classical music in urban communities inspires intuitive movement and value. It describes how classical music creates instantaneously powerful movements and leaders through interdisciplinary dialogue around the arts, history and sciences. Interviews and storytelling will illustrate the influence of classical music and fine arts upon past, present and modern movements.
a group of students in classroom

Building Black Kansas City

Carmaletta Williams


Carmaletta Williams

Executive Director, Black Archives of Mid-America Black Archives of Mid-America
Building Black Kansas City is an oral history project focusing on the African American experience in Kansas City, MO in the mid twentieth century, beginning at the end of World War II. These stories will chronicle the building of Black Kansas City through varying aspects of its culture, collecting and making accessible the voices of individuals who might not otherwise have an opportunity to share their personal stories from a bygone era.
Backpackers walking on a dirt road

Kansas: An Eclogue

Patrick Ross


Patrick Ross

Independent Filmmaker Independent Storytellers

Joshua Nathan


Joshua Nathan

Independent Filmmaker Independent Storytellers
KANSAS: An Eclogue will be a full-length documentary film. The project evolved from a walking journey across the state of Kansas by the film’s co-directors, Patrick Ross and Joshua Nathan, independent filmmakers from Kansas, now living in Los Angeles, CA. In more than 35 hours of filmed interviews, they captured stories about rural/small-town Kansas life.
a group of workers with hats

Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms

Valerie Mendoza


Valerie Mendoza

Independent Public Historian Washburn University

Matt Jacobson


Matt Jacobson

Professor, Film and Media Studies University of Kansas

Donna Rae Pearson


Donna Rae Pearson

Local Historian, Kitchen Table History Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library
“Reclaiming Home” will tell the story of Topeka’s Bottoms neighborhood through oral history, a documentary and art. In the 1950s and ’60s, more than 3,000 Topekans were forced to leave their homes and businesses in the Bottoms district in downtown to make way for new real estate development as part of the Urban Renewal Project.
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rePRO Film

Mallory Martin


Mallory Martin

Co-Founder, rePRO Film, Artistic Director, Artistic Director Cleveland International Film Festival

Kylie Brown


Kylie Brown

repRO Film Digital Director, Livefree Lab Livefree Lab

Neha Aziz


Neha Aziz

rePRO Film Programmer, Programmer at Cleveland International Film Festival, Austin Asian American Film Festival, Podcaster Cleveland International Film Festival

Asha Dahya


Asha Dahya

rePRO Podcast Host, Author, TEDx speaker and founder of GirlTalkHQ.com GirlTalkHQ
The rePRO Film Periodical is a free, monthly newsletter available via email and online. Each issue centers an area of reproductive and health and justice and includes a curated short film, an original interview podcast featuring storytellers and activists, further reading and links to advocacy organizations.