SOS had the wonderful pleasure to partner with Martha Rogers for her unwavering commitment to Survivor Theatre Project as member of Leadership Team and monthly workshop series, Healing Through Creative Arts. This has been a wonderful bond that includes creative play, deep conversations, a radical approach to survivorship with BIPOC Queer/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities. Join us in our story share as we wrap up the end of a beautiful era. www.survivortheatreproject.com 

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Blueprint to Thrive had the wonderful pleasure to partner with Rosie Docanto, founder of @wehealholistcally for her amazing workshop  followed up by a wonderful interview earlier this year as a Seasoned Artist. In April, we got to heal together with Survivor Theatre Project with her magic with Healing Through Creative Arts, "Harness Your Breath and Body's Power to Heal: Experience healing through breath work, restorative yoga, and sound bath." We thank you and celebrate you for your gifts! www.survivortheatreproject.com

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Blueprint to Thrive had the wonderful pleasure to partner with Black the Creator for their amazing workshop as a Seasoned Artist. In April, we got to heal together with Survivor Theatre Project for their Their "Inner Child Creative Workshop: Writing, Playing, Moving to Transform". We thank you and celebrate you for your gifts!  

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Get to know one of our sprouting artists in community, Abi Mariam. SOS: Blueprint to Thrive got to capture her testimony to her experience and passions during their season with us! Abi speaks on her values and beliefs during her process in the program! If you attended her workshop, "Words Create Worlds: Healing Through Storytelling and Creative Expression" , then we welcome you to share your experience below! Stay in touch to learn about more artists grooving through our program! We are also on YouTube as SOS by Saafyr

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Get to know one of our sprouting artists in community, Aabidah Muhammad @Aabidabbi (IG)! SOS: Blueprint to Thrive got to capture her testimony to her experience and passions during their season with us! Aabidah speaks on her values and beliefs! if you attended her workshop, "Healing Through the Music of Our Hearts: An Exploration of our Inner Voices" , then drop your experience below! Stay in touch to learn about more artists grooving through our program! Check the visual film on YouTube! CC for Deaf/HH (https://youtu.be/vipvw_U-ROU) 

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"Hi My name is Aabidah Muhammad. I am an artist. My different forms of expression are writing songs, writing music, and writing poetry. Doing comedy skits, video photography. All types of art really, i'm trying to get into more, even dancing, pottery, everything! Everything that I can I feel like that's a way for me to heal people. through art. artist expression. healing them through that. when I write my songs it comes from a deep place, when I write poetry, same thing.. .

I joined BTT because I was looking for a way to express myself easily, because, like, I wanted to express myself but I was a little shy, a little fearful, but I wanted to. When BTT came to me I was just like, "WOW! ya know?" I think this would help me as an artist to grow and become more grounded in who I am and what I want to express to the world. There is just so much of me to express and at times I was like, "ya know what, i'll just sit this one out." I felt like, OK! I can do this! I feel a little fearful, but there was always that like recognition, that understanding, and reassurance, " you're going to be ok, you got this! you got the talent!"

So, I joined to be able to express that in a more organized way also because I also have just a bunch of jumbled up ideas and I wanted to put them in more of a sequence and I feel like I was able to do that here . What I have to give is very special. That was very reassuring to me and I am very happy that I decided to join because it changed me. It really changed me in a way where it gave me a lot more confidence and a lot more security within myself.

The pros were to feel more confident and solidified in myself, uhm, I would feel like the cons ware more fear had come up,fear had come up with me feeling like ok, I love i love doing this but should i even continue trying to learn because who is going to really listen? but that's negative self-talk that I'm working on and the singing bowls help me with that because the frequency helps me, so it's really deep for me where I feel like the cons are still pros because they're like where it is leading me down the path to help me see myself and feel myself. I love myself the most when i am creative and when i am going with my flow and i feel like being a part of this program helped bring that out of me and to understand thats who I am, i am pure artistry, my whole self is, even my existence is artistry, everyones is. it's something deep, there's a reason why we're here. and when you're engulfed in art and looking into that in a deeper way, I feel like you can see the deeper parts of yourself through art, which helps you heal. That's what brings me here and makes me feel like I'm whole!"

SOS by Saafyr features our first season of Blueprint to Thrive I-Shea ! IG: @ishea.the.original.jewminican. Irène Shakily is our first seasoned Artist interview, exploring her role in this world as a healing creative. Please enjoy an episode of wisdom by her and others as we celebrate every artist. For more details resources and access, go to www.Saafyr.com and www.survivortheatreproject.com. Thanks for tapping into the morse code! This program is in partnership with STP, Cambridge Women's Center, and Cambridge Arts Council. ***- - -*** SOS is production based creative space created by Saafyr. Blueprint to Thrive is the partnering program with Healing Through Creative Arts. Here we get to meet the gifts and explore creative play with BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ artists. SOS is Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Accessible.  ***- - -*** As a global citizen, I-SHEA comes from the source of hip hop and the sauce of arabic records, merengue, bolero, rumba, salsa, nyabinghi and west african rhythms. The Original Jewminican: percussionist, singer/songwriter, recording artist, dancer, theater artist, radical healing arts activist. Her infectious rhythms, lush and raging vocals have lit up the east/west coast USA, Canada, South America, The Caribbean, and Africa, performing at legendary venues like Daniel Sorano National Theatre of Dakar, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Apollo in Harlem. She has opened up for Dead Prez, Sadat X (from Brand Nubian), and Morgan Heritage and has worked with and/or shared stages/performances with Howard Zinn, Rha Goddess, Rosario Dawson, Angie Martinez, Jane Fonda and Eve Einsler to name a few. You can find I-SHEA playing with local & regional bands: Rebirth, The Lost Tribe, Pamela Means and the Reparations, Gokh bi System, The Gaslight Tinkers, Ianbassa and the Word Sound Movement, and Taproots. You can find I-SHEA’s recent music contributions on bandcamp with The Lost Tribe and Pamela Means. Follow I-SHEA on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/irene-i-shea-shaikly Instagram @ishea.the.original.jewminican YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCltnvenjVVK8QL7xHUdB_1Q Hear some of I-SHEA’s musical contributions with: 1. Rebirth “This World Of Ours” 2015 album on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4pfXdAefMmHlqnjsBgD4Tq?si=v_A2YQLcSqOeN cyfPLGpJw&dl_branch=1 2. Pamela Means and The Reparations: https://pamelameans.bandcamp.com/ 3. The Lost Tribe: https://thelosttribect.bandcamp.com