Lift Every Voice: Venerating Seniors and Empowering Our Next Generation of Activists through Art, Creative Writing and Storytelling

The Lift Every Voice: Venerating Seniors and Empowering Our Next Generation of Activists through Art, Creative Writing and Storytelling campaign is charged with mitigating the underrepresentation of the body of work of marginalized community members by amplifying their voices. The campaign aims to advance literary social justice through creative writing workshops, followed by exhibiting, publishing, and sharing the voices of seventy-five youths and twenty-five seniors. The campaign involved partnering with schools to conduct multiple creative writing/storytelling classroom workshops and collaborating with the organization ARTS: A Reason to Survive at open house events to exhibit poetry broadsides and to disseminate bookmarks and poetry postcards to attendees. Additionally, the campaign will engage people from lowest quartile communities at senior and community sites through creative writing residencies and poetry readings.  The campaign culminates with a published anthology.