Next season, LFL has an opportunity to make our first visit as a full ensemble to collaborate with Guatemala’s Colectivo Teatral Histórias de Fe!

Will you help LFL break boundaries on our journey from Kentucky to Guatemala?

We believe in the power of the arts and storytelling to unite people, build connections across cultures, and create positive change, while providing a safe and creative outlet to spark conversation and share experiences.

The Faith Stories Project and Colectivo Teatral Histórias de Fe (Faith Stories Theatre Collective) grew from a simple conversation. While LFL Co-Founder Jennifer Thalman Kepler was living and teaching in Guatemala in 2003, she discussed the work she did in the U.S. with LFL. Soon came the question, “Well, why don’t you bring them here, and do that with us?”.

In 2005, LFL’s 3 Co-Founders traveled to Guatemala to work with over 100 Guatemalan women, both indigenous and Ladina (of European descent), collecting oral histories and creating theatre pieces based on responses to two questions: “How does your faith liberate you?” and “How do the structures of your faith oppress you?”.

Twenty years later, that conversation has become an ongoing partnership and sisterhood between LFL and Colectivo Teatral Histórias de Fe. In 2014, our Guatemalan partners made their first visit to the U.S. as an ensemble.

Your donation will help us cover the costs of next season's journey and enable us to make a lasting difference in the lives of those we meet through the art of theatre and storytelling.

The mission of the Faith Stories Project and Faith Stories Theatre Collective is to empower women in Guatemala and the U.S. by artistically exploring the complexities of how faith affects their lives. It provides a space where women can share their stories and participate in the creation of a collaboratively devised work based on those stories. It allows for mutual support and encouragement, building self-esteem, and creating a sense of community for women of faith in both countries as we struggle to tear down barriers and explore how we are more alike than different.

Recognizing our common human experiences in this way leads us to more fully respecting and appreciating our diverse individual experiences as well. As theatre is so effective at doing, we have the opportunity in this community of artistic collaborators to lift up the universal in the specific and the specific in the universal.