About Healing Arts 2022
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Every one of us has a story to tell.
We at CORE are a tight knit family and we have a community of people who want to make a change in this world. The agony and distress that we all have faced as system-impacted people is what brought us together. CORE is a safe haven for us to blossom into who we truly are. As part of the CORE ( Community Overcoming Recidivism through Education) program at Pasadena City College, I knew that partnering with Inscape so that our community can share our stories and experiences with our larger PCC Community would be an important first action we could take to heal ourselves and others through the power of writing and art. We choose to tell our stories so that people who read them can change their own lives. Some who read these experiences will cry, but hopefully some will begin to feel enraged by what we have been through and become allies and advocates for reform and support. These stories are our lives. We choose to use the power of art and writing to heal ourselves. Writing, Art, sharing our experiences, these have been tools for HEALING, which is why we celebrate the HEALING ARTS with this Inscape partnership. In this issue you will read stories and poems and narratives describing heartache, violence, abandonment, and struggle, and it will help you realize all that we have in common. We each should acknowledge the mighty warriors inside of us who have been able to and continue to try clawing our way out of the darkness and shining into the light. With the support of our CORE family, many of us are on a journey turning our weaknesses into our strengths. What you may read as a life of hell, we experienced as a normal way of life. However, without the darkness we experienced, we would have never been able to see the light. We hope that the work you read and view here will change you, and we hope you will see our lights shining bright within us. – Jessica Leeth Young, Healing Arts Prose Editor |
Photo archive from Healing Arts 2022!
