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Artistic Advocates for Healing

What We Do

Artistic Advocates for Healing is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization.  It is our commitment to promote healing and peace through the arts to those whose lives have been touched by violence and abuse through performances and artistic events as well as creating strategic alliances with individuals and other organizations to generate an unending source of healing and peace. 

The first people to understand how music really works were the ancient Greeks.  The Greeks said that science was seen as the study of relationships between observable, permanent, external objects, and music was seen as the study of relationships between invisible, internal, hidden objects.  Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us.  We believe all the arts can heal, thereby our focus is on artistic events.

Originally formed on September 1, 2005, so far we have represented two artistic events.  These events were performances of Barbara E. Garrett’s “Requiem for Broken Souls”.  Audiences at these performances have been made up of regular concertgoers, survivors of violence and abuse, and loved ones left behind.  Rose Brooks Center, a battered woman’s shelter, was our first strategic alliance.

Feedback we have received:

  1. Space of safety to think about when she was raped 20 years prior – Rape Survivor in her 40s.

  2. 6 Hispanic survivors of violence/abuse arrived sort of smiling, cried through the entire performance and were grinning from ear to ear when they left.

  3. Freedom for a loved one left behind and survivor of domestic abuse to be emotional about the loss of her sister due to cancer and promoting healing in regards to the abuse.  Female in her 50s.

  4. “It was the most moving performance I’ve ever heard” – an organist in her 80’s.

  5. Freedom to deal with emotions left over from a home invasion 10 years prior- female in her 70s.

  6. It was very powerful and thought provoking for me.  It brings up memories, but in a way that you can see there is a light at the end of the tunnel.  The message is clear and the music is a medium for the unspoken to get their words out.  Domestic Violence Survivor in her 50s.

  7. Thank you, Artistic Advocates for Healing, for supporting the healing and triumph of those breaking free from domestic violence. – a battered women’s shelter.