Vision & Inspiration

Human creativity and change usually starts with a vision of what could be, a dream. The people who express such visions so that others can see and hear and touch them not only inspire us, but keep us perservering.

Fun

Our homeless/low-income writer's group, StreetWrites, was once told after a public reading, "A lot of us felt awkward when you read something funny. We didn't think we were supposed to laugh about homelessness." Humor is the strongest survival tool we have. Poor people laugh about poverty a lot -- and about a lot of other things. Laughing and playing together is as important a part of building community as working together, helping each other, and fighting injustice side by side. Laughter is an excellent tool in doing the last three, too.

Come play with us © Dr. Wes Browning's Bad Art Show

Visions on the Web
> Activist Art Webring
Using the creative arts for social change
> Art from the Streets
at the Wyoming Coalition for the Homeless
> StreetLife Gallery
"The home of homeless art" in Seattle, Washington
Sponsored by Real Change street paper
> StreetLife Gallery Archives 
> Floaters Homeless Art Project
Co-sponsored by Homeless People's Network
> StreetWrites
Workshop of homeless and low-income writers
Sponsored by Real Change in Seattle, Washington
> The Journal of Ordinary Thought
From the Neighborhood Writing Alliance in Chicago
 

 

Updated: Sunday December 8, 2002
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