A Talk & Conversation with
ANNE H. POLLACK
Founder / Executive Director, Crossing Point Arts
24 January 2023, Tuesday, 7:30PM-8:30PM US ET
Via Zoom. Free and open to all.
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Indeed, as the world churns in ecological crisis and unsustainable socio-economic systems, more and more marginalized and vulnerable peoples are being exploited. Anne H. Pollack will talk to us about the facts and myths of human trafficking, and share with us her experience in working with survivors--what it means to bear witness, engage, and serve through creativity and the arts.
ABOUT ANNE H. POLLACK
Anne H. Pollack is a professional musician, visual artist, writer, lifelong student of dance and an activist. Her sensibilities - and her awareness of the world around her - called upon her to create Crossing Point Arts. By engaging a broad spectrum of professional artists- and training them to work as trauma-informed Teaching Artists - she opened the way for trafficking victims to receive ongoing arts workshops, bringing them healing and humanity through their experience of creative expression.
As Founder/Executive Director of her nonprofit, Anne’s vision came from decades of research about USAs history of enslaving Africans (& their descendants), and in recognition of the fact that culture and creative outpouring are strikingly strong medicine for the wounds of enslavement. Determined to call upon this innately human instinct, Anne found the means to reconnect a broken link by 'Bringing the Arts to Survivors of Human Trafficking.’
In its tenth year, Crossing Point Arts has reached over 7000 survivors of numerous forms of exploitation, including labor and sex trafficking. Youth, adult, female, male, LGBTQIA, domestically or internationally trafficked...all are welcomed and supported in Crossing Point Arts’ workshops and mentorships. In 2021 Crossing Point Arts began training, offering support and employing survivors who are now regularly employed as Teaching Artists, providing workshops to fellow survivors.
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