Hold Up Incantation: Honoring Cultural Pain Points
by Jacey Eve
Poetry by Jacey Eve
"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.