 A one night only event returned to the American Indian Center in Bemidji this week, Project 26 is meant to promote healing through creation. All the pieces in the project deal with tough subjects like sexual violence, assault, trauma and missing family members. There was also a poetry reading and drum song. The main goal of the project is to get people to talk more about things that aren't easy to discuss. I wanted to give an insight to the general public, what survivors are going through when they're healing. I also wanted to try to break stigmas and encourage people to talk about these, domestic violence and sexual assault more. This was the second year for Project 26. They begin accepting art submissions again in October. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.