STORYHOLDING™
PEOPLE HOLD THE KNOWLEDGE. I HELP BRING IT FORWARD.
Storyholding™ is my framework for gathering, shaping, activating, and preserving the stories we carry. Through research, conversation, writing, and collaborative creation, I help individuals, organizations, and communities move lived experience into forms that can be seen, heard, felt, and remembered.
WHAT STORY ARE YOU HOLDING?
HOW DO YOU WANT TO HOLD STORY?
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Learn it at your own pace.
Explore the Storyholding™ Framework through a self guided Field Guide and prerecorded modules designed to help you identify, approach and develop a story with intention. Move through the process at your own pace, with the option to schedule a one on one session with Brittini when you need additional guidance.
Best for: Individuals, artists, community members and practitioners.
In development, Coming soon 2027
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Experience Storyholding™ together.
A 60 to 90 minute interactive introduction to the Storyholding™ Framework using real world case studies, conversation, reflection and a brief exercise. Designed to help participants rethink how we collect, create with, share and preserve the stories entrusted to us.
Available in person or virtually.
Best for: Community groups, organizations, universities, conferences, retreats and professional development.
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Bring a real story. Apply the framework.
A customized multi day intensive for groups and organizations with an actual story, project or body of knowledge they want to hold. Brittini guides participants through the Storyholding™ Framework using their real project, helping them ask the right questions, make thoughtful decisions and develop a clear approach for moving the story forward.
Best for: Organizations, institutions and community groups preparing to document, develop, activate or preserve a meaningful story.
Starting at $6,500
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Let me do it for you. Bring me the story. I’ll hold the process.
A customized Storyholding™ engagement led by Eye N Eye. Depending on what the story requires, the process may include research, qualitative interviews, oral histories, narrative development, writing, creative direction, community activation, exhibitions, film, performance, curriculum or archival development.
Best for: Individuals, families, communities, organizations and institutions seeking a Storyholder to lead the process from discovery through presentation and preservation.
The Detroit Poetry Archive (DPA) is a living, multimedia archive designed and curated by Brittini Ward to document, preserve, and celebrate the Detroit Poetry Scene…from its earliest roots to its present-day evolution. Built from love, responsibility, and reverence, the archive uplifts the stories of poets, organizers, and cultural workers whose words shaped Detroit’s creative and political imagination.
Through video interviews, archival photographs, performance recordings, oral histories, and personal narratives, DPA seeks to both preserve memory and provide a blueprint for future generations of artists. It positions Detroit’s poetry scene not just as an artistic movement, but as a social and spiritual ecosystem…one that has offered healing, protest, community, and continuity for decades.
THE SEER
The Seer is a groundbreaking operatic libretto written by Emmy-winning artist Brittini Ward, founder of Eye N Eye, as part of The Cartography Project—a Washington National Opera and Kennedy Center initiative that reimagines how opera can confront, transform, and reframe the Black experience in America.
Set to music by composer Levi Taylor, The Seer explores themes of Black dignity, self-reclamation, and ancestral remembrance. The work merges poetry, prophecy, and ritual into a narrative that envisions liberation not as a distant dream, but as something already encoded in our collective DNA.
Praised by NPR and The Kennedy Center as a vital contribution to the future of American opera, The Seer expands the genre’s canon by centering a Black woman’s journey toward wholeness—bridging Detroit’s modern reality with an ancestral, spiritual cosmology of freedom.
