What a journalistic challenge: to write a magazine article about a concert on domestic violence. Janina Birtolo, a Naples actor and arts editor for Gulfshore Life, thoughtfully embodies our vision for community awareness and support on this issue. What a wordsmith she is!
Click here to read the full article on The Choir Project and “Finding a Voice” in the January 2010 issue of Gulfshore Life.
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In the work of “active” DV intervention, they came into our ears, and eyes and touched tortured, tormented souls with healing. The healing medication of music. The painful prose written to a screen, sang, orated and danced was projected into hearts to mend the breaks in love. It showered us with the acknowledgment that we “victims” ARE heard.
Healing put to harmony.
I didn’t realize that watching the event would make me privy to share a ride on an “emotional roller-coaster”. You picked me up at the entrance gate of “hell and suffering”, clamored up the incline of “desperation and hope”, sped me down the “slope of action”, whisked me up, into, and thru, the “tunnel of escape”, and coasted me to a soft and gentle stop at the “exit of victory”.
As I came to the end of the ride, I realized that my “survivor badge” was all shiny again. Standing on empowered legs, applauding the ride, I came to the tearful realization that OUR DV journeys had been given VOICE. {GhostWing} aka {WingMan}