ARTIST SOLIDARITY GRANTS
COMMUNITY CREATIVE CENTRE : BARYO BALANGAW CREATIVE INITIATIVES ( RAZCEL JAN SALVARITA AND ELLE DIVINE )
A safe commUnity creative center where women and girls are able to awaken their creativity through expressive arts healing – a refuge to revitalize , regenerate the bold spirit of the Divine Feminine within . The team are conducting massive pop-up teach-in programs in different schools and villages . Serving 9,000 women and girls , about a tenth of the population of the municipality , the project is the vision of R ’ az Salvarita and Elle Divine .
MICHAELA HARRISON ( WHALE WHISPERING ) Whale Whispering addresses the history of sexual trauma experienced by Black women through the experiences of colonization , enslavement and the ongoing violence of white supremacy . Tapping into whale songs as repositories of the healing sounds of those who made the journey across the Atlantic during the Middle Passage and using collective singing and wailing as technologies for release and healing that can be accessed by all , the project draws the connections between violence against Black women and the broader context of genderbased violence in general as intricately tied to the climate crisis the world is currently facing and offers song as remedy . Over 1,000 individuals will be served indirectly via the dissemination of healing sound recordings resulting from the project .