Gen Z: Blaxk Futures
Date and Time
Sep 2, 2022 5:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Sep 2, 2022 5:30 pm
14th & V
Speakezie Go Hard Gen Z Blaxk Futures Edition DC
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In History, a speakezie is a hidden establishment where guests can have the experience of discretely engaging in a Prohibition Era experience.
The community's SPEAKEZIE...Go Hard is a cultural entity providing conflict resolution to violence survivors through art therapy.
Founded in 2018 by El Jay’Em, Speakeze...Go Hard has become a cultural movement in Washington, DC, combating racial injustice and gun violence by providing a platform for community members to use music, poetry, and artistic expression to entertain and heal. Since its conception on September 28th, 2018, Speakezie has had the privilege to serve the community as a violence interrupter and offer gun violence prevention. Speakezie has provided conflict resolution through art therapy to over 30k survivors of violence throughout the nation. Secondarily, brought awareness and raised funds for over 30 social justice issues and provided a platform to over 700 artists and counting. Speakezie utilizes live art, live music, bands, poets, emcees, hip hop artists, actors, independent films, and other expressive art forms to provide high-impact conflict resolution and trauma relief through restorative justice practices. Speakezie expanded into public and charter schools in 2020 with the L.O.V.E curriculum and has provided schools with eight semesters of high-impact emotional intelligence programming.
Through art therapy, our program centers on restorative justice, trauma relief, and conflict resolution for violence survivors. It seeks to bring awareness, pride, and inspiration to each viewer, participant, and audience member. Art Therapy allows survivors to directly target their trauma and promote healing by combining the mind and body through the art channel. Each month, Speakezie...Go Hard hosts a show at We Act Radio in Washington, DC, and fills the space with individuals from around, creating a diverse demographic reach from ages of 8-70.
Speakezie has existed since September 2018 and seeks to bring awareness and fill the gap in the lack of support and resources for the aftermath of violence. The result of this blooms trauma and destabilizes communities of color economically, socially, and culturally.
