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"Reaching Out: America"
Fundraising "Concert of Hope"

Thanks to all who helped make this our Inaugural Launch! December 2007

 

 


Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. I Pray...

 


The fundraising concert transform the
Grace North
Church into a night of Celebration.

 

Visit the

Quilt Square
Meditation Pools

 

 


A Nigerian trio who created music to rise above pain and suffering and to transcend evil

 


Mary Ellen Donald: a nationally acclaimed author, instructor, and performer in Middle Eastern Percussion.

 


Megan Wagner and Jim Larkin: Tree of Life Teaching

 


Clare Hendin: Sound Healer, Educator and Singer

It Was An Evening of Enchantment

Location: Grace North Church
2138 Cedar Street
Berkeley, California
94709

When: 7:30-10:00 p.m.
December 8th, 2007

The Concert of Hope seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free and secure from all forms of abuse -- whether its' name is sexual, violence or cruelty by withholding food clothing or education. This is a human rights issue that needs to be addressed by changing minds, changing laws and changing the way we deal with survivors in the aftermath of what amounts to be a crime.

 

Performers

The Nigerian Brothers
Baba Ken Okulolo and his Brothers
African folk and Highlife Music.
About Ken Okulolo
Nigerian Brothers CD's

Mary Ellen Donald
Vocalist
Mary Ellen Home Page
Mary Ellen on YouTube

Megan Wagner and Jim Larkin
Drumming and Chanting
Megan and Jim Home Page

Clare Hedin
Vocalist and Musician
Clare Hendin Home Page
Clare Hendin CD's

Partnering Event
November 2008
Red Door Gallery and Collective

Paintings and installation by Robin Kuypers-Witte and Lisa Rasmussen
A paired show about the exploration and dissolution of the in-between.

The exhibition also included: “Portals of Compassion” an installation by artist and activist Janice Brewster in her work with sculptor Dr. Michael C. Irving. Janice is the Chair of "Reaching Out: America" an awareness, advocacy, and healing for survivors of child abuse-awareness and education.

The visiting artists gallery included a collection artists and teachers who, "have been portals into both our personal growth and evolution."

Red Door Gallery and Collective
416 26th Street, Oakland CA 94705
Opening Reception Friday, November 7, 2008

The Red Door Collective is home to 8 artists, 2 performers and one poet. Works by collective members will be on display, including photographs, sculpture, drawings and paintings.

There was a performance and an art station were guests created, their HandPrint with vision for a better world for children. This work will be contributed to Reaching Out America to be placed inside a bronze national monument for victims and survivors of child abuse.

Thanks to: Lisa Rasmussen, Bethany Trombly, Jais Booth, Robin Kuypers-Witte Yasmin Lamble-Simpson, Lauren Odell Usher Cheja , Mark Lindsay, Heidi Forssell, Sarah Theismann.


Janice Caine-Brewster, Chair: Friends of "Reaching Out: America"

Contact:
Janice Caine-Brewster
"Reaching Out: America"
Child Abuse Monument

37 Bay Park Terrace
Alameda, California 94502
artist@reddingmgt.com
510-851-0410

 


REACHING OUT
Against child abuse.
Cynthia

 

Let your
HandPrint join others
in the MONUMENT

 


REACHING OUT
Against Child Abuse.
Allison

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This web site of "Reaching Out: America Child Abuse Monument for the USA, also has links to Dr. Irving's Canadian "Reaching Out" Child Abuse Monument. The sculpted quilt square, poetry and HandPrint drawings and messages found on this web page are from the Canadian "Reaching Out" Child Abuse Monument. The same kind of collaborative work will be undertaken in creating the "Reaching Out: America" Child Abuse Monument.


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Michael C. Irving, Ph.D., Psychotherapist, Sculptor, Irving Wellness -- Providing Speaker, Motivational Talks, Workshops, Psychotherapy, Art Therapy, Art in Therapy, Sculpture, Monuments, Public Art., Memorial, Reaching Out Child Abuse Monument, Child Abuse Survivor Monument Project, Reaching Out: America.