A participatory storytelling experience that promotes empathy, healing, reform, and justice. Mass Story Lab is a project of Create Forward.

What happens when you bring together storytelling, dialogue, and design? You get a Mass Story Lab, an interactive storytelling event that promotes community, creativity, and justice. In a Mass Story Lab the experiences of people directly impacted by mass incarceration become a catalyst for imagining a world beyond prisons.

About Mass Story Lab: Mass Story Lab travels to communities across the U.S providing a model for participatory storytelling that promotes community building, creativity, and justice. Each community choses a theme for their interactive lab. In Greensboro, NC we will use stories to explore the local histories of incarceration.