The ARTSHOUSE Theatre Project will tell STORIES of culturally diverse voices based on real life experiences, stories that reflect society and challenge you to think.

‘We all have STORIES…that’s what makes us who we are’

We will use the power of theatre as a platform, elevating our voices, sharing our stories, telling our truths, raising dialogues; STORIES of healing, of survival, of accomplishment, of empowerment.

We want to create a complete artistic creation which embraces visuals, music, and dance creating an esthetic journey in experience and performance.

Stories that move you emotionally and viscerally. We are currently working on our first project.

Creative Voices: Women Empowered

Will celebrate, highlight, elevate, and amplify the diversity of women’s creative voices. It is vital that women’s creativity be expressed, heard, and valued.

Women who choose: to use the arts and creativity to heal, to tell their stories, to unite, to communicate, to create and inspire change; to make an impact in and through the arts; to use their creativity as entrepreneurs.

“We as WOMEN of the world will fight for equality, justice for all, a safe and peaceful environment, will fight for unity, will promote health, happiness and prosperity for ourselves and our families and secure our freedoms. We will use our creative voices for truth, for communication, for healing, for self-expression, telling our stories through our eyes in our own ways.

We are strong, independent, and powerful. Your voice, One voice, Our voice.”

Events; exhibits; education/ workshops; conversations, podcasts, videocasts, interviews; publications

Special Projects: Operation Arts/Fest, Women Who Serve: an initiative to celebrate and highlight the essential role that creativity and the arts in all its forms plays in the process of healing, self-expression, telling of their stories, and the resilience of these female veterans. We want to show new ways of seeing, understanding, and connecting in partnership with arts and veteran’s organizations.

*Girls Empowered

Business Collab Project: A collaboration between Creative Voices and the business community to elevate and place value on the creative voices of women by using their art, creating limited edition products for their brands.

*Jiggy Puzzle Project: A Woman-led Company Prioritizing Women-Crafted Artworks Through Puzzle Designs and the creative voices of women veterans on our theme of Hope, Inspiration, Transformation & Possibilities. The puzzles will be offered for sale starting on Veterans Day 2021.

Hope, Inspiration, Transformation & Possibilities: a theme that we are using as a springboard for arts and conversation through 2022.

*Our Bodies, Our Rights, Our Voices

A yearlong initiative to kick off on January 22, 2022 leading up to January 22, 2023, the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade. We will use our creative voices expressing our ideas, thoughts, stories, and feelings on the theme; ‘Our Bodies, Our Rights, Our Voices’, and our right for a just, equal, healthy and safe world.  We will create conversations, highlight, elevate and amplify the diversity of women’s creative voices, igniting positive change through the arts for women’s rights.

ARTS on the Front Lines

The global pandemic coupled with social injustice has exposed the inadequacies in how we meet our basic human needs. How we treat each other. They have created walls around us; the arts break down those walls, they open doors and build bridges.

In times of crisis, we use art to express our feelings, deal with stress, our fears, to communicate our ideas and thoughts, for comfort and strength. When the crisis is over, we use art to heal and unite, creating stronger individuals and communities; to celebrate. We use art to offer alternatives, to see options and possibilities, to heal from trauma, to raise dialogues, to effect change.

Since 2020 we have had to deal with the challenges of multiple public health issues: the COVID-19 Pandemic and the subsequent mental health crisis and social injustice. We have had one challenge after another, these circumstances and events have widened the disparities in access to the arts that already existed, and it has and will affect arts organizations working with individuals and communities. These are our Arts on The Front Lines organizations that deserve our recognition and support. These organizations are working with children, youth and communities at risk, veterans, the elderly, in the justice system, immigrants, working in healthcare and wellness, working with the homeless population, and revitalizing impoverished communities. These organizations have had to rise to the challenges placed in front of them and keep going or risk shutting down and leave the individuals and communities they serve at a greater risk. We should view them collectively as a creative force who use the arts as their weapons.

We need to recognize these arts organizations; these are the organizations doing the work that is needed now and position the arts to take a central role in our future. These are organizations that are ‘essential’.

We talk about how the arts can help us moving forward and what they can do for our society, but which arts were and are they talking about and for whom?

We need to not only recognize these organizations but to celebrate them for their service to us all.

Arts on the Front Lines recognizes the power of the arts to be transformative, to challenge, to offer possibilities and hope, to heal and unite, to effect change.

It is recognition of arts projects, artists and arts organizations working to make an impact on individuals, communities, society; art used as a prevention tool; in health, wellness and healing, social justice and human rights, civic engagement, community revitalization. It is art as an ‘essential service’.

Arts on the Front Lines will celebrate and highlight these projects, artists, and organizations, giving them greater visibility, providing a platform for growth and collaboration.

The Arts and Culture Canvas: a series of conversations, panel discussions with the goal of covering various issues, topics,share ideas, and possibilities, inspire one another and serve as a catalyst for further conversations, collaborations,and for action. It is all about the power of the arts!