upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Mari will conduct a 12-week program where high school girls, ages 14-18, will focus on anti-violence work using art for healing, activism, and community organizing. Addressing issues of race, gender, and sexual violence, the program will use dance as an impetus for community building and prompt young black and Latina women to use dance, movement, and spoken word to create safe spaces for individual and collective healing. In the process, these same girls will be lifted up to become community leaders as they plan three community events that promote anti-gender violence through the arts. The program will be documented through film.