soars - A Long Walk Home
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soars - A Long Walk Home
SOARS story of a rape survivor story of a rape survivor 1 Table of Contents Mission 3 History 4 Overview 5 SOARS Performance 6 SOARS Performance Cast 10 Workshops: Using Art To Heal 14 Workshops: Race and Media 19 Workshops: Campus Safety 24 Keynote Lectures 25 Workshop Facilitators 26 Founders 32 Contact Information 38 2 Mission A Long Walk Home, Inc. (ALWH) is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization that uses art therapy and the visual and performance arts to document, to educate and to bring about social change. We use the testimonies, poetry, music, photographs, and videos of and by women and children to provide safe and entertaining forums through which the public learns about healing from trauma. 3 History In 1997, during the fall semester of her sophomore year in college, Scheherazade Tillet learned that her older sister, Salamishah, was a rape survivor. In response, Scheherazade began photographing and documenting the impact of sexual assault in Salamishah’s life. In the spring 2000, Salamishah and Scheherazade decided to help more people heal from their experiences of sexual violence by transforming this intimate photography project into the multimedia performance, SOARS (Story Of A Rape Survivor). Given the positive feedback of SOARS and the high incidents of violence that women and children experience everyday, in 2003 Schehehrazade and Salamishah founded the non-profit organization, A Long Walk Home, Inc. (ALWH) and developed comprehensive antiviolence programs that use the visual and performance arts as vehicles for healing, social change, and education. 4 Overview The SOARS (Story Of A Rape Survivor) sexual assault programs are comprised of a two hour performance, keynote lectures, trainings, workshops, and curriculums designed to educate the public about and to facilitate individual and community healing from sexual violence. 5 SOARS Performance SOARS is a two hour performance about one woman’s journey to reclaim her body, sexuality, spirituality, and self esteem after being sexual assaulted in college. Performed by a diverse cast of women and featuring photographs taken by her sister during the recovery process, SOARS uses modern dance, spoken-word, and music to educate the public about sexual violence and to ease the shame, guilt, and self-blame that rape victims too often feel with a story of hope and healing. Fee: $3000.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) 6 In the news… Chicago RedEye, 04/2006 7 Respondent Demographics Sponsored by Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4) on April 27, 2006 Number of Attendees: 310 Number of Respondents: 208 Ethnicity and Gender A sian A mer ican W o men 3% N at ive A mer ican W o men A f r ican 1% A mer ican M en 12 % Lat ina W o men 12 % Age Above 65 3% W hit e M en 4% Under 18 12% 40-65 28% 18-25 15% Lat ino M en 1% W hit e W o men 19 % A f r ican A mer ican W o men 48% 25-40 42% 8 Respondent Demographics Did you learn anything new about sexual violence from SOARS? Did tonight's program make you more aware of local counseling services, rape crisis centers, or therapy groups? N/a 30% Yes 52% N/a 18% No 18% After seeing the performance, do you feel more inclined to recommend someone you know who has experienced sexual violence to seek counseling or therapy? No 5% N/a 22% No 4% Yes 77% Yes 74% 9 SOARS Performance Cast Logan Vaughn is a filmmaker and dancer from Houston, Texas. She studied Classical Ballet and Modern with the Discovery Dance Group in Houston, and is completing her film degree at Columbia College in Chicago. Logan has choreographed for Eastern University, Second City Theater, and Lookingglass Theater. Committed to establishing positive voices and strong images of women in the entertainment industry, Logan uses the visual and performances arts as a platform for education and exploration. She choreographed and performs the dance Fragile to Nina Simone’s “Four Women” in SOARS. Davina Stewart graduated from Temple University earning a Bachelor of Arts degree and the Shirley Graham Du Bois Award of excellence in African-American Studies. She is a performance artist currently residing in Philadelphia. As a teaching artist she facilitated performance workshops for youth and adult learners at The National Civil Rights Museum and The Blues Cultural Center in Memphis, Tennessee; Action AIDS Network in Johannesburg, South Africa; The People’s Emergency Center Shelter and the Philadelphia Young Playwrights’ Festival in Philadelphia. Her interest in writing and performing is based upon the belief that art is liberating and healing. Davina intends for her work to be a catalyst in exposing, exploring and eradicating the root causes of social inequity so that we all may actualize our full potential. Davina interprets the poems "Do You Know What Rape Feels Like" and "I Died and Was Born on the Same Day" in SOARS. SOARS Performance Cast Ugochi Nwaogwugwu This Chicago native is an international singing sensation who has been performing her original style of song and word poetics since she began her musical journey over eight years ago. She is known in her hometown best for her refined storytelling and songwriting ability. Ugochi’s music has allowed her to travel to many countries in Europe. She was selected as a finalist in the HBO/Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam 2001 Competition and selected as a semifinalist on Star Search. She has performed with acclaimed artists such as Common, Eric Benet, Michael McDermott, Umphrey’s McGee, Femi Kuti, and most recently opened for John Legend. In 2004 Ugochi concluded her second tour promoting her latest musical project, “African Buttafly” a journey that led her through across the US. Ugochi performs an adaptation of “Strange Fruit” and is the songwriter and performer of “African Buttafly” in SOARS. Régine Jean-Charles is a Haitian-American academic, artist and activist. She has received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2006. Her dissertation “Gendering VIOLence: Francophone Women Writers, Representations of Violence,” and the Violence of Representation consider the literary, historical, cultural, and rhetorical presence of gender violence in the context of several francophone countries in the Caribbean and West Africa. She has presented numerous papers on the subject of gender violence in literature and cultural criticism, one such article, "Beneath Layers of Violence: Images of Rape and the Rwandan Genocide" is forthcoming in a collection on Gender Violence and the Media. Regine has starred in the groundbreaking feminist plays VENUS: the Story of the Venus Hottentot, For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Isn't Enuf and In Harm's Way. Her activist work includes serving as a state-certified rape crisis counselor at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and working with Haitian women and girls at the Kay Fanm a Haitian Women's Center in Boston. Regine is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Center for African and African American Studies. She performs the poem "Do You Know What Rape Feels Like" in SOARS. SOARS Performance Cast Shakera Jones A native of Montclair, New Jersey has been singing since age four. Influenced by her parents love for jazz and soul music, Shakera began performing and singing at every opportunity. In 1995, Shakera moved to Philadelphia to attend Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music, where she received a B.A. in Music with a concentration in Jazz Voice. While attending Temple University, Shakera formed the shakerajones quartet. While studying for her Master’s degree in Jazz Studies at the University of the Arts, Shakera has performed at all the premier jazz venues in Philadelphia, which include Ortlieb’s Jazz Haus, and Zanzibar Blue. Shakera is the singer of the adapted-version of “Strange Fruit” in SOARS. Tamara L. Xavier is in the final stages of completing a doctoral degree in Dance at Temple University and Future Faculty Fellow in Dance. She has focused her research on Haitian Vodou dance as somatic education. Tamara Xavier pays close attention to movement and loves to make melodies without sound. Tamara’s HaitianAmerican upbringing is her font of inspiration when it comes to communicating ideas. She is also the Co-producer and Director of Choreography of Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ documentary NO!, the groundbreaking film documentary that ends the collective silence surrounding rape in the black community. She performs the modern dance piece, “Spirit in the Dark” in SOARS. SOARS Performance Check List Dance Floor/ Stage (space similar to a theater stage) • Technical Director (Audio/Visual person) for rehearsal and for the duration of the SOARS production Projection screen (10-ft by 10-ft or larger in size that will be on display behind the stage) • Space reserved 3 hr before performance time for rehearsal LCD Video Projector • (Optional) Lighting equipment Sound system equipment • (Optional) additional hand held wireless microphone for the audience if it contains 100 or more people. 1 hand held wireless microphone (for introduction & question and answer portion of SOARS performance) • Permission to sale onsite A Long Walk Home, Inc.’s “Got Consent?” t-shirts • Lodging space for 6 artists in the performance • For overnight performances: meal reimbursement or meal provided before or after the performance. 2 wireless lavaliere microphones (for the poet and the singer of the SOARS performance) Display table (3ft by 1ft or larger) 13 Using Art To Heal Workshops 14 Using Art To Heal Workshops Secondary Victims: Friends, Family Members, and Partners of Survivors For the last eight years, art therapist Scheherazade Tillet has photodocumented her sister’s recovery from sexual assault. Based on her unique expertise, Scheherazade designed this workshop to help partners, family members, and friends deal with the anger, guilt, and hurt they feel when they learn that their loved one has been sexually assaulted. Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) SPA: Coping with Vicarious Trauma This workshop is specifically designed for professionals and students who work with survivors of sexual assault. Deviating from the traditional workshop format, we use music, aromatherapy, and expressive therapy techniques to recreate the serenity and comfort of a day spa. In this multimedia workshop, we will discuss the origins and effects of VT, and explore how meditation techniques, movement and art therapy can lessen the effects of vicarious trauma. Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) 15 Using Art to Heal Workshops Art Therapy and Sexual Assault This training for professionals who work with survivors of sexual assault explores how art therapy techniques can: 1) provide survivors of sexual assault with multiple models and opportunities to express difficult emotions; 2) facilitate self expression and communication by helping survivors use art to reclaim their experiences; and 3) provide survivors with a tangible vehicle to reconnect to their bodies. Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) Digital Media and Recovering from Sexual Assault This workshop looks at how photography and video can be used as an essential part of therapy and healing from sexual assault. This workshop can be formatted for: 1) survivors of sexual assault who would like to document and to incorporate art in their healing processes; and 2) professionals who work with victims of sexual assault. Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) 16 Using Art to Heal Workshops I Love My Body: Sexual Assault, Body Image, and Dance Therapy This workshop looks at how dance/movement therapy can be used to treat dissociation, promote bodily enjoyment, and build affirming body images. It can be formatted for: 1) survivors of sexual assault; and 2) trainings for professionals who work with survivors of sexual assault. Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) Sexual Healing: Sexual Abuse and Finding Our Sexual Selves This workshop uses dance and art therapy to address how sexual trauma interferes with having satisfying, healthy sexual relationships. We will address issues such as sexual fear and avoidance, flashbacks, dissociation, pain and other blocks. It can be formatted for: 1) survivors of sexual assault; and 2) training for professionals who work with survivors of sexual assault. Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) 17 Using Art to Heal Workshops Healing through Works: Sexual Assault Activism This workshop will provide insight on how sexual assault activism and victim rights advocacy serve as pivotal moments in sexual assault recovery. We will demonstrate how survivor art, activism, and advocacy can be better integrated into sexual assault treatment and prevention programs. The workshop is an opportunity to share work, engage in dialogue, empower survivors, and contribute to social change in the community. This workshop is formatted for: 1) survivors of sexual assault; and 2) training for professionals who work with survivors of sexual assault. Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) 18 Race and Media Workshops 19 Race & Media Workshops No Longer P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Things): Media Coverage of Child Sexual Assault Female-male or same-sex childhood sexual abuse rarely is treated well in the media. This workshop, No Longer P.Y.T., analyzes how mainstream reporting of childhood sexual abuse renders it a media spectacle or trivializes the negative impacts sexual abuse has on its victims. This workshop is offered as: 1) training for professionals who work with survivors of sexual assault; and 2) a talk for activists, academics, and students interested in gender, sexuality and popular culture. Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) 20 Race & Media Workshops Illegal Body Checks: Race, Sports, and Sexual Assault Over the last three years from the Kobe Bryant trial to the Duke Lacrosse scandal, there have been several sexual assault cases with explicit racial overtones. On one hand, these cases have increased dialogue about both racism and rape; on the other hand, they have reinforced historical stereotypes regarding inter-racial sex, black masculinity, white and black female sexuality, and white male privilege. This workshop will examine the following topics: 1) Are there corollaries between sports culture and sexual assault; 2) what happens when the added factor of “race” is involved; and 3) what responsibility do athletes have to reduce and prevent sexual violence? This workshop is formatted as: 1) training for professionals who work with survivors of sexual assault; and 2) a talk for activists, academics, and students interested in gender, sexuality and popular culture. Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) 21 Race & Media Workshops Beyond Black and White: Race, Rape, and the American Popular Culture From classic films like Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It, from the Central Park Jogger Case to Michael Jackson’s trial, this workshop looks at how race and rape are represented in the media, films, and hip hop. By looking at recent high-profile cases and using feminist theory, critical race theory, cultural studies, and legal scholarship to better understand how race, gender, class and sexuality shape public perceptions of both sexual assault victims and assailants. Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) 22 Race & Media Workshops Beyond Our Borders: Trafficking, War and Global Sex Crimes This workshop analyzes sexual assault from a global perspective. By looking at how rape is used as a tool in ethnic conflicts and war, examining the rise of “sex tourism” and trafficking, and studying anti-rape movements in France, England, Rwanda and South Africa, the goal of this workshop is to facilitate more nuanced thinking on gender violence in a global and Third World context. Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) 23 Campus Safety Workshops Safety Abroad: Addressing Sexual Assault on Study Abroad Programs When students study abroad, they often travel without training in personal safety and an understanding of cross-cultural attitudes towards sexuality and sexual assault. Unfortunately, while there is an increased risk of sexual assault when students go abroad, there also is substantially more underreporting. As a result, students are less likely to seek help and recover from sexual trauma. We have created this workshop to help administrators and students develop comprehensive study abroad sexual assault resources, insure that students are aware of university protocol and services for them while they are abroad, identify basic safe practices, and be able to differentiate between culturally “fitting in” and being at risk. Fee: $800.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) Young Leaders: Working With Students to End Campus Sexual Violence The workshop, Young Leaders, supports and provides additional resources to student anti-violence organizations. In this workshop, by emphasizing the need of diversity and art therapy in anti-violence programs, we help students who are interested in sexual assault issues devise their own trainings, recruitment strategies, and community outreach and campus education programs. There are two versions of this workshop: 1) for college/university rape crisis counselors, peer counselors and anti-rape advocates who work with survivors of sexual assault; 2) for high-school crisis counselors, peer counselors and anti-violence organizations. Fee: $800.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) 24 Keynote Lectures Groupies and Gold-diggers: The Construction of Female Sexuality in Hip Hop The purpose of this talk is neither to further denigrate the image of the groupie or gold-digger nor claim that these images are always expressions of an empowered female sexuality. Instead, it uses feminist theory and cultural studies to examine how the stereotypes about groupies and gold-diggers serve sexism and homophobia in the entertainment industry and to perpetuate and to justify sexual violence committed against female fans. (Salamishah Tillet) Fee: $650.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses) He Can Have Anyone He Wants: The Cult of the Celebrity and the Denial of Rape Far too often, the media coverage of celebrity or high-profile cases is overly sensational and antagonist to rape victims. This lecture looks at two high profile trials in order to understand how the media shapes the public reception of sexual violence and further discourages survivors from coming forward and pressing charges. (Salamishah Tillet) Fee: $650.00 25 Workshop Facilitators Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis an Assistant Professor Department of Educational Psychology, Administration, and Counseling Office in the College of Education at the California State University at Long Beach. She received her doctorate from Duke University in Clinical Psychology with a focus on the cultural context of trauma recovery, as well as the intersection of gender and racial identity. She completed her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical Center's Victims of Violence Program. From 2001-2004, she served as Senior Staff Psychologist and Coordinator of the Princeton University SHARE Program. She is a contributing author in the Beacon Press book, The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women. Dr. Bryant-Davis has served for three years as an American Psychological Association representative to the United Nations where she advocated for mental health and human rights globally. In addition, she has been appointed the Global and International Issues Chairperson for the Society for the Psychological Study of Women. She is the author of Thriving in the Wake of Trauma: A Multicultural Guide (Praeger Press, 2005). 26 Workshop Facilitators Sunny Jeanne Givens was born in Minneapolis and raised in Chicago. She currently resides in Chicago working as Artist, Jewelry Designer, and Art therapist. She graduated in 1994 from the University of Kansas, with highest distinction, receiving a BFA in both Fine Art and Art History. She earned her Masters in Art Therapy from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. She served as a board member for the Illinois Art Therapy Association. She is a faculty member the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, teaching Introduction to Art Therapy. For the past four years, she has worked as an Art Therapist for Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Home Hospice program. As an Art Therapist, she focuses upon uses of art to cope with loss and to re-story oneself. 27 Workshop Facilitators Amy Kohler is a dance instructor and dance therapist. She received her B.A. in dancemovement therapy from Columbia College, a BA in psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a graduate of the Boitsiv classical Ballet, Ballet Chicago, Ballet Theatre of Chicago, Lyric Opera Ballet and Ballet Iowa. Amy is Co-Director of Wings Dance Company and a Dance Instructor in the Communication, Dance, and Theatre at West Carolina University. 28 Workshop Facilitators Dr. Régine Jean-Charles is a Haitian-American academic, artist and activist. She has received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2006. Her dissertation “Gendering VIOLence: Francophone Women Writers, Representations of Violence,” and the Violence of Representation consider the literary, historical, cultural, and rhetorical presence of gender violence in the context of several francophone countries in the Caribbean and West Africa. She has presented numerous papers on the subject of gender violence in literature and cultural criticism, one such article, "Beneath Layers of Violence: Images of Rape and the Rwandan Genocide" is forthcoming in a collection on Gender Violence and the Media. Regine is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Center for African and African American Studies. 29 Workshop Facilitators Marta Sanchez self-taught visual artist and poet, Sanchez was born and raised in Panama. She is a sexual assault survivor who uses art to break the silence surrounding sexual violence and to heal invisible wounds. In sharing her work, she aims to simultaneously raise awareness, reassure other survivors and encourage the advocates who support them. Sanchez, a former rape crisis center educator, is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and Spelman College . At the law school, she served as assistant director for the Rape Crisis Advocacy Project, and created and hosted the Project's "Survivor Art Group." Sanchez, who has performed in an Atlanta production of The Vagina Monologues, is a full-time artist and activist. 30 Workshop Facilitators Tamara L. Xavier is in the final stages of completing a doctoral degree in Dance at Temple University and Future Faculty Fellow in Dance. She has focused her research on Haitian Vodou dance as somatic education. Tamara Xavier pays close attention to movement and loves to make melodies without sound. Tamara’s Haitian-American upbringing is her font of inspiration when it comes to communicating ideas. She is also the Co-producer and Director of Choreography of Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ documentary NO!, the groundbreaking film documentary that ends the collective silence surrounding rape in the black community. 31 Co-Founder Salamishah Tillet is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home Inc. and the writer and the program director of A Story of a Rape Survivor (SOARS). Salamishah was sexually assaulted as a college student and SOARS documents her personal college and postcollege journey from rape victim to rape survivor. Salamishah breaks the silence that often surrounds rape by narrating her trauma in order to educate both survivors and nonsurvivors about sexual assault and recovery. Her poem “Do You Know What Rape Feels Like?” is performed alongside her testimony, in the award-winning Cambridge Documentary Film Rape Is. . . The 2003 documentary Rape Is examines rape as a human rights violation which continually threatens millions of women, children and men throughout the world. Additionally, Salamishah is an associate producer of and shares her story in Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s groundbreaking documentary NO! The Rape Documentary As a full-length film, NO! explores the history of sexual assault in the African-American community. Salamishah Tillet is the currently Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney post-doctoral fellow at the Center of African and African-American Studies at the University of Michigan. In November 2006, she will receive her Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization Program from Harvard University where she studied American and African-American Literatures. She is a graduate of Brown University where she received a Masters of Art of Teaching in English (M.A.T) in May of 1997. She is also a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where she received a B.A. in English and Afro-American Studies in May of 1996. At the University of Pennsylvania, she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2006, Salamishah was also prominently featured as Ebony Magazine’s “Young Leaders: 30 for 2006” Award. . 32 Co-Founder Scheherazade Tillet is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home, Inc. and the photographer and artistic director of A Story of a Rape Survivor (SOARS). In May 2000, she received her B.A. from Tufts University. She studied photography at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of Art. Scheherazade earned her Masters in Art Therapy (M.A.A.T) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. She works as an art therapist and rape crisis counselor at the Chicago YWCA Rape Crisis Center. In 1998, under the tutelage of social documentary photographer, Steve Hart, she began SOARS as a mini social documentary project in which she intimately examined her sister’s recovery from sexual assault. Scheherazade transformed her initial project into a full-scale photography exhibition and multimedia slideshow presentation. Scheherazade’s photographs from SOARS have been featured in Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s documentary NO! As a full-length film, NO! explores the history of sexual assault in the African-American community. Her photographs have also been featured in Cambridge Documentary short Rape Is. . . Rape Is examines rape as a human rights violation which continually threatens millions of women, children and men throughout the world. As a photographer, Scheherazade is particularly interested in deconstructing stereotypes, concentrating on the intersections of race, gender, and class, and the body. She has worked on numerous social documentary projects such as “Children in Ghana,” “Body Image: The Last Trimester,” “Harlem World,” and is currently working on a project-in-progress on gentrification in urban communities. 33 Past Appearances: Performances • Community Counseling Centers of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2006) • Chicago Foundation for Women, Chicago, IL (2005) • University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI (2006) • Bowdoin College, Brunswick, MI (2004) • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2002, 2006) • Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS (2004) • University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (2003) • Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH (2002) • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2001, 2002) • Northeastern University, Cambridge, MA (2002) • University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2005) • Barnard College/Columbia University, New York, NY (2005) • Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (2005) • Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2005) 34 Past Appearances: Workshops/Lectures Workshops: • Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Springfield, IL (2005) “Using Dance Movement and Art Therapy to Heal from Negative Images Workshop” Lectures: • Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA (2006) • Bloomburg University, Bloomburg, PA (2005) “Kobe Bryant Discussion” • Kansas Coalition of Sexual Assault, (2005) • • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2004) “Secondary Victims: Friends, Family Members, and Partners of Survivors Workshop” Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (2005) “Kobe Bryant Discussion” • University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2004) “Kobe Bryant Discussion” • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2003) “Panel Discussion” • Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA (2002) • • • • Barnard College/Columbia University, New York, NY (2005) “Sepia Tone: Race, Culture and Healing from Sexual Violence” Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS (2004) “College Leaders Workshop” North Lawndale College Prep, SOARS performance, and “Girl/Friends Workshop” Chicago, IL (2005) North Lawndale College Prep, “Art Therapy Violence Prevention Workshop”, Chicago, IL (2006) 35 Past Appearances: Conferences • National Sexual Conference, PCAR, Pittsburg, PA (2005) “Sepia Tone: Race, Culture and Healing from Sexual Violence” & “Secondary Victims: Friends, Family Members, and Partners of Survivors Workshop “ • 3rd National Sexual Violence Prevention Conference (2004) Mini-“Story of a Rape Survivor” performance • SisterSong Conference on Reproductive Health, Atlanta, GA (2003) Mini “Story of a Rape Survivor” performance • Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Olympia, WA (2003) “Story of a Rape Survivor” slideshow and photography exhibition • Radical Women of Color Organizing Conference, University of Illinois of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2002) • National Domestic Violence Conference, “Panel Discussion”, Philadelphia, PA (2002) 36 Films • "Rape Is...”, Cambridge Documentary Film. SOARS photographs and poetry are featured in this awardwinning documentary about rape as a human rights issue. (2002) www.rapeis.org • “NO!”, Afrolez® Productions, LLC. Interviews with A Long Walk Home, Inc. co-founder Scheherazade Tillet and SOARS photographs and poetry are featured in this documentary film about intra-racial sexual violence against African-American women and girls. (2006) www.notherapedocumentary.org 37 CONTACT INFORMATION Website: www.alongwalkhome.org Email: [email protected] Phone & Fax: 1-877-571-1751 Executive Director: Scheherazade Tillet Email: [email protected] 38