The Sisters Project

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What We Do

The Sisters Project is an outreach project. We carry our message to colleges, high schools, businesses, shelters, churches, recovery groups, and artist workshops. We want to reach out to everyone.

Here is what we offer:

  • Our DVD. An interactive DVD entitled Walk in My Shoes, A Personal Response to Homelessness.  The 25 minute film is based on our multimedia performance of My Sister, My Sister, and incorporates videographic art, photographs, music, and poetry read by the Shadow Voices.  It is available for presentations and workshops on issues of poverty, race, addiction and gender in our communities.

  • Presentations and Workshops. We offer workshops, which include a DVD presentation, photography and poetry readings, and shared stories. Through our art and discussions of homelessness, we explore our responses to community problems and ways we can change how we address these issues. These workshops are available throughout the community.

  • Our Exhibit. An elegant gallery exhibit of thirty framed photographs is available for general circulation.

 

  • Families with children make up one third of the homeless population
  • Today, more than one third of persons living in poverty are children.
  • More than 25% of families headed by women live below the poverty level for a family of three.
  • Approximately half of all women and children experiencing homelessness are fleeing domestic violence.