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Hold Up Incantation:  Honoring Cultural Pain Points 

 by Jacey Eve

This poem is an incantation, a spell, a meditative song honoring the message bearers in our bodies, our cultures, and our ecosystems.  
A multi media collaboration featuring: 
Poetry by Jacey Eve 
Background music, artwork animation and video produced by I-SHEA 
Artwork by Julie Murphy 

"SAY THEIR NAMES" featuring faces of STP 

video and song by Iréne I-SHEA Shaikly,

Survivor Theatre Project Publicity Manager/Touring Company Director 

 

RONA RELIEF SERIES: Voice of Our STP Leadership Team and Community 

 

Episode 1:  Dolly Arjun, an activist, survivor/thriver, and one of our most crucial essential workers during this time. She shares her work, her story, her mission, her message.

 

Episode 2:  Kaia Jackson (they/them) asks some really important self care questions during these challenging times.  Kaia is one of our Leadership Team members.  

 

Episode 3:  Mel Redwin, founder of Survivor Theatre Project, recites a message from Dr. Bayo Akomolafe titled "Life is an Intergenerational Project" 

 

 Episode 4:  Noemi Saafyr Paz, Director of Survivor Theatre Project, "A Black Girl's Pandemic" - looks like radically going against social distancing from listening within the pandemic and finding connections with chosen family and animals for our spiritual healing. This video is intentionally and mostly silent in honor of deaf/black lives. Support local black women such as Life Coaching with @ladydeesyf, Massage with @amythest.touch & Extreme Radical Self Care by @ashalij. Smile, send a kiss, heal, hustle! #BlackLivesMatter #survivorstory #ThriversBlueprint

 

Episode 5:  Martha Rogers, STP's Healing Through Creative Arts Manager, "My Gut Keeps Talking" -  We often hear people say, "listen to your gut."  That's the focus of this song.  My body has always been my guide throughout my healing.  Lately my gut is giving me clear guidance about boundaries--when I find the healthy ones or when I miss the mark.  It takes practice to hear the signals in time to change old ingrained patterns.  I decided a song might help me hear the message in a new way and perhaps boost my learning process.  That's the teacher in me treating myself like a student who needs a new approach.  And it did help!

 

Survivor Theatre Touring Company Videos:

 

 The World Inside of Me:  (Re)Claiming our Shadows in the Light - 2019

 

 ROOOOAAAR! A Beautiful Anger - 2017

"The World We Live In Is Not The World We Live In" - 2011

Excerpts from an informal performance of the original work "THE WORLD WE LIVE IN IS NOT THE WORLD WE LIVE IN" created by participants in the 2011 Western Mass arm of the Survivor Theatre Project. The full piece addresses a topic as impossibly troubling as it is deeply inspiring: Healing your life from sexual violence while living in a culture that encourages it. Alternately poignant and irreverent, the piece reveals the rifts that sexual abuse carves in the lives of survivors, while exposing the massive denial that surrounds sexual abuse at the interpersonal and institutional levels in the culture.

 

 

 

Survivor Theatre Project presents multi-disciplinary performances that seeks to inspire,
educate and empower survivors and allies towards individual and collective anti oppression actions that uplift, nurture, heal and protect.

Performances include the genres of hip hop, theatre and dance as a tribute
to the indomitable human spirit and the many ways people walk the healing road.