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Artistic Advocates
for Healing is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization. It is our
commitment to promote healing and peace through the arts to those whose
lives have been touched by violence and abuse. We are creating strategic
alliances with individuals and other organizations to generate an
unending source of healing and peace. The first people to understand how
music really works were the ancient Greeks. The Greeks said that music
was seen as the study of relationships between observable, permanent,
external objects, and music was seen as the study of relationships
between invisible, internal, hidden objects. Music has a way of finding
the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping
us figure out the position of things inside us. We believe all the arts
can heal, thereby our focus is on artistic events.
Originally formed on September 1, 2005, so far we have presented two
artistic events. These events were performances of Barbara E. Garrett's
"Requiem for Broken Souls:. Audiences at these performances have been
made up of regular concertgoers, survivors of violence and abuse, and
loved ones left behind. Rose Brooks Center, a battered woman's shelter,
is the first spoke of our Partnership Wheel.
Our future plans include a concert in Columbia, Missouri, currently
scheduled for March 20-21, 2010. This concert will present the
aforementioned Garrett's Requiem and a section of Hindemith's Requiem.
We are also beginning to create a 3-day event in Kansas City tentatively
scheduled for the Fall of 2011. We eventually hope to include all the
arts in the fulfillment of our Mission Statement. We will continue to
give complimentary tickets to our partner charities and whenever we have
more than enough to present our artistic events, we also plan on giving
monetary donations to our partner charities.
Feedback we have received:
1) Space of safety to think about when she was raped 20 years prior -
Rape Survivor in her 40s
2) 6 Hispanic survivors of violence/abuse arrived sort of smiling, cried
through the entire performance and were grinning from ear to ear when
thy left.
3) Freedom for a loved one left behind and survivor of domestic abuse to
be emotional about the loss of her sister due to cancer and promoting
healing in regards to the abuse. - female in her 50s
4) "It was the most moving performance I've ever heard" - an organist in
her 80's.
5) Freedom to deal with emotions left over from a home invasion 10 years
prior - female in her 70s.
6) It was very Powerful and Thought Provoking for me. It brings up
memories, but in a way that you can see there is a light at the end of
the tunnel. The message is clear and the music is a medium for the
unspoken to get their words out. - 49 year old Domestic Violence
Survivor
7) Thank you, Artistic Advocates for Healing, for supporting the healing
and triumph of those breaking free from domestic violence. - a battered
women's shelter
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