The Griot Series – Workshop 1: How to Tell Your Story with Bianca Vivion
Join The Memory Keepers Club for the first workshop in The Griot Series: How to Tell Your Story! Learn the fundamentals of storytelling from multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and producer, Bianca Vivion.
Drawing from her work across TV, podcasting, visual art, and media, Bianca breaks down what makes a personal narrative meaningful, memorable, and able to resonate across audiences and formats.
In this session, you’ll learn practical ways to shape your personal story, find the threads that matter most, and share your experiences with clarity and confidence. Whether you’re just beginning to reflect on your story or looking to strengthen how you tell it, this workshop offers thoughtful guidance and space to begin.
This workshop will take place on Zoom. While membership to the Memory Keepers Club is exclusive to BIPOC persons under 40 years old, friends and allies are welcome to attend the public programming, such as the Griot Series.
Get to know our featured griot, Bianca Vivion:
Bianca Vivion (b. 1996, Los Angeles, CA) is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and producer whose work meditates on communal devotion, kinship, and belonging. Raised between Atlanta and Oakland, she began her career in journalism, becoming a news correspondent to National Public Radio at 14 and, at 18, the youngest opinion writer for The New York Times. Vivion’s artistic practice blends storytelling, portraiture, and social commentary, often centering the global Black diaspora in themes of coming of age, religious piety, and spiritual resilience. She is the author of the poetry collection Incomplitudé(2023) and host of the critically acclaimed podcast ASK VIV as well as arts and culture talk show Generational Anxiety on PBS. Vivion is a graduate of Columbia University with a degree in international human rights and finance. She lives between Harlem, NY, and Dubai, UAE.
About the Memory Keepers Club
The Memory Keepers Club is a digital-first social club for young BIPOC archivists and preservationists. The Club was founded by Journee Harris in the summer of 2025 as a response to the growing interest among Millennials and Gen Z in preserving their family history, personal memories, and collective stories. Follow us on IG at @memorykeepersclub.