Hope Springs Institute - 3rd Annual Women's Poetry & Performance Retreat

We are raising $15,000 for the Hope Springs Institute Women's Poetry and Performance Retreat. If you would like to give please visit: www.hopespringsinstitute.org


The Women's Poetry and Performance Retreat is an annual program sponsored by Hope Springs Institute (HSI) a 501(c)(3) non-profit retreat and learning center in Peebles, Ohio. The mission of Hope Springs Institute is to provide sacred space for Feminist Education, Responsible Green Living and Transformational Work in the service of Healthy Relationship with Planet Earth, Global Peace, Social Justice and Equality, and Personal Development. HSI in internationally known for its work in women's leadership development and in 2010 hosted an international peace gathering. The Women's Poetry and Performance Retreat is in its third year, with 50 fellows, and 10 distingushed female-led faculty of award-wining poets, storytellers, and memoirists. The mission of the retreat is to develop the woman, the writer, and the performer. We focus on helping our fellows stand firm in their inalienable right as an artist, relevance as a writer, honed their craft, and be audacious in their voice, perspective and worldview. We provide the fellows with techniques to use their art as a tool for social justice, self and community healing/building, and activism. We commit to creating an intergenerational, difference appreciating community, which supports all women in varying walks of life and economic status. To date, Hope Springs Institute has provided nearly $10,000 in scholarships for women across the country. Many of our fellows have development career as full time performance artists, one fellow founded a arts-based non-profit which uses arts to educate her community about HIV/AIDS and social justice issues. In addition, several of our fellows have had their work published and Hope Springs Institute will produce a poetry anthology of the women who have attended the retreat.

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