breaking walls, inc.

I am asking for your support for our intrepid, brave and multi-talented artists and creative activists. I am asking for your donation to Breaking Walls, the youth empowerment movement guiding these young men and women to discover their voices, while simultaneously offering them a platform on which to share them as a creative collective.

I’m Fran Tarr, and each hour of every day since eight young men and women from Bethlehem, Palestine, and Brooklyn, NY inspired me to plant the seeds that would become Breaking Walls, Inc. - young people across the globe, through their words, their resiliency, their passion to transform themselves, their communities and our world inspire me to be stronger, more honest and transparent, essentially my better self.

I am blessed, privileged to collaborate with and guide each and every young person who enters our ever-expanding global family as we explore the things we share in common, and celebrate the things that make us unique.

While Breaking Walls is getting used to staying connected digitally during these uncertain times, many of our most vulnerable Artists and Ambassadors are unable to reach out to anyone. Due to this, we are trying our best to reach out to them using every resource possible, dedicated to maintaining the safe zone Breaking Walls provides. This effort reminds us every day that the arts are a vital delivery system of hope, able to clear a direct path to our hearts while still feeling human and connected.

Maintaining Breaking Walls’ safe zone, both emotionally and physically, led us to postpone our 2020 Bucharest Summit until July 2021. The health of our Artists, Ambassadors, staff, and partners is imperative to us especially during this time of crisis. However, in its place, we will be hosting an eight-day virtual International Artist Cooperative. This Cooperative will be open to every Breaking Walls participant in Barcelona, Berlin, Bethlehem, Brooklyn, Cape Town, Detroit, Santiago, Tangier, Warsaw, and yes - Bucharest!

Our vision is to utilize Zoom to host workshops on ensemble-building, peacemaking, and creative writing while offering break-out sessions in which our participants’ writings are mentored by an expert artist or performer into a vocal, dance/movement, visual art, spoken word or monologue piece. As always, a culminating performance and talk-back crafted from these pieces will be streamed live across the globe.

Your donation will secure all the supplies needed to support the Artist Cooperative! 

We will be appreciative of any donation that you would like to contribute. Thank you, in advance, for your continuing devotion to our inspirational young people. 

Love,

Fran & our Breaking Walls global family

Breaking Walls connects young people, internationally, to be ambassadors for peace using the arts.

This non-profit youth empowerment movement was founded in 2011, and it focuses on helping young men and women discover their voices. We work with young people to build an equitable, inclusive, sustainable and peaceful cohabitation model, through social and arts-based interactions. At the same time, we offer them a platform on which to use their unique voices- promoting an ever-expanding inclusive, respectful and trusting world cultivated by these intrepid young people. 

We want to encourage you to join us in making a difference in today's world. Breaking Walls is raising money to benefit the young artists that are becoming tomorrow's leaders. The impact of your support will empower our activists to reach their full potential as we take on Tangier, Morocco in 2019.  Our 2019 Summit in Tangier will see young people from Barcelona, Berlin, Bethlehem, Brooklyn, Cape Town, Detroit, Santiago, and Warsaw join with their peers in Tangier to explore the issues of self-care,  the assault on truth, and the need to be a planet warrior.

Your donation will secure a daily workshop place, all supplies needed to support the writing workshop, and the theater space where the culminating performance will occur. We will be appreciative of any donation that you would like to contribute. Thank you, in advance, for your continued devotion to our inspirational young people.  <3

Love,
Breaking Walls