South End Stories

It is incredibly important to lean on WHO YOU ARE and WHERE YOU COME FROM to craft the stories that will take us to a future where everyone matters. At South End Stories, the creative process is a revolutionary practice that gives youth the opportunity to learn valuable skills all while connecting youth to memory, place, justice, and community.

We are excited to share our annual report with you. Please check out the link on the last slide. 🔥

Let us know in the comments what resonated with you and why! Love what you see? Support our work to engage youth in the art of storytelling in 2026 by becoming a monthly donor. 💥

Wishing you a happy, warm start to 2026.

This Friday & Saturday you are invited to enjoy an incredible student performance of James & the Giant Peach presented by Garfield High School’s Theatre Arts Program and South End Stories.

We are so grateful to our school partners, our very own Lead Teaching Artists, and of course, the hardworking, brilliant students who will shine this weekend! 💐

Introducing our new monthly donor program, Creative Futures. 🪐

The Creative Futures Circle is South End Stories’ monthly donor community for people who believe youth are not just adapting to the future, they are imagining and creating it.

Your recurring gift sustains storytelling, arts integration, education, and youth-led creative spaces where Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian youth lead storytelling rooted in cultural identity, resistance, and joy.

By joining the Creative Futures Circle, you become part of a community shaping what comes next—one story, one young artist, and one act of collective care at a time.

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There’s still time to support student voices. Check out these stills from films made by students in our elementary and high school programs.

Giving Tuesday ends at midnight, and we’re working toward our $1,000 goal to keep culturally sustaining, justice-centered arts programming alive in schools.

A donation tonight helps make space for more young people to share their stories through theater, film, and visual art.

Help us finish strong:
https://givebutter.com/SESGivingTuesday

We’re halfway through Giving Tuesday and every donation is helping us reach our $1,000 goal.

South End Stories programs help students explore identity, build confidence, and create powerful stories through the arts. Your support brings this vision to life in classrooms across King County.

Give now to support student storytelling and belonging:
https://givebutter.com/SESGivingTuesday

Giving Tuesday starts now 🤩

Today, we’re raising $1,000 to support South End Stories’ youth-led arts programming. From filmmaking and poetry to performance and visual art, your donation helps create space for students to be seen, heard, and valued.

$25 supports art supplies
$50 covers a storytelling workshop
$100 funds a student showcase
$250 brings a Teaching Artist into the classroom for a week

Make your Giving Tuesday gift here:
https://givebutter.com/SESGivingTuesday

Students in our 2025 Summer Teen Theatre Intensive had the opportunity to see Porscha Shaw in the 5th Ave production of After Midnight. She then joined us for a short Q&A, where she reflected on her journey as an actor, helped us understand musicals versus straight plays, and shared actionable tips for moving through the industry.

Our Summer Teen Theatre Intensive is designed to help youth build performance skills and get college-ready by learning directly from industry professionals.

Catch Porscha at the 5th Ave’s Elf- the Musical with showtimes between November 28 through December 28! - first slide reposted
Final showcase of the 2025 Teen Theatre Intensive - 2nd slide

Soup and Stories reminded us of the power of coming together.

Thanks to your support, we raised $910 dollars and helped launch South Park Superpowered: Stories of Place, our new arts-integrated curriculum starting this fall at Concord International.

From shared meals to shared memories, this event proved what’s possible when community shows up for youth and storytelling.

We’re just getting started. Join us for year-end giving and help keep this work going strong.

Find the link in our bio to support our goal of raising $1090!

Our Director of Education, Teal Farias, is sharing a story at our event Soup & Stories 📢 THIS SUNDAY 📢

Learn what happens next 😱 by joining us for our one-of-a-kind friend raiser where we have invited folks to share (you guessed it) soup & stories!

We are ready to serve up Soup & Stories so if you were on the fence about joining us, we’ve got it covered! Let us know you’re coming by dropping a 🍜 in the comments. We will send you details on how to get signed up for free.

✨donations are always welcomed to support our Superpowered programming at Concord Elementary ✨

See you on Sunday!
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🌈✨ Big reveal coming this weekend!
We are unveiling our new logo at our event this weekend, Soup & Stories! Designed with the incredible team 🙌🏽 You should check out their newest release, a stunning graphic novel, Chickaloonies Book 2! ✌🏽An all ages Alaskan Tribal Adventure ✨

See you this weekend for storytelling, community nourishment, and cozy, yummy soup! Let us know you’re coming! Link in bio to register. Want to enjoy the conversation and soup? Sign up to “Slurp, Smile, and Sit back”!

Meet our new Director of Education, Teal Farias!

Teal Farias (they/them) is a q***r, Mexican migrant Social Anthropologist, dancer, performance artist, community organizer, and arts-based educator. With over a decade of experience in youth facilitation, cultural strategy, and antiracist program design, their work lives at the intersection of storytelling, social justice education, and collective liberation.

Teal believes in the power of movement, art, and community to transform and connect. Rooted in cultural responsiveness and pleasure activism, they create participatory, trauma-aware spaces where embodied experiences become a source of collective knowledge. Whether through performance, workshops, or facilitation, Teal’s practice is centered on accountability, care, and healing.

Through their creative and organizing work, Teal envisions a world where art is not only expression but a vital tool for social change. They weave together multiculturalism, diversity, and individual power—seeing art as a canvas for liberation. Teal is committed to deconstructing systems of oppression while cultivating joy, resilience, and collective freedom, and believes that a community that dances together, stays together.

We are so excited to have Teal join our team!

This Summer South End Stories teaching artists spent seven weeks with four classes of elementary school students at the Summer Learning Program of the Chinese Information & Service Center (CISC). During this residency, we introduced puppetry as a means to investigate identity, build up a sense of community, and confirm the meaningfulness of places and home. As a final celebration, the students performed to elders at Legacy House in the International District. We had such a great time creating and performing with all of these beautiful and unique puppets. Thank you CISC for having us!