Every year, an estimated 1.6 million of America’s youth experience homelessness. Though a problem nationwide, this is also an issue locally. In order to better serve this important population, Hillsboro Community Arts founded the Rise Above Arts Program, providing arts education to homeless youth. These teens, ages 13 to 17, currently reside at A Safe Place for Youth, a teen homeless shelter run by the Boys and Girls Aid Society in Hillsboro. Each year, Rise Above offers 150+ teens the opportunity to express themselves through art and writing, while helping them to build confidence, learn about themselves, and realize a sense of accomplishment.
Beyond the weekly art and writing classes, Rise Above provides the teens with the chance to participate in other local events and programs. During our first year, such events included: an art exhibit of the teen’s work at the Walters Cultural Art Center in Hillsboro; participation in the Global Art Project, where the teens exchanged artwork with youth from Fredericksburg, Virginia; and an exhibition of the teen’s art at the First Tuesday Artwalk in downtown Hillsboro. Beyond this, Rise Above was able to help two of the teens obtain scholarships for further classes at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and helped a group of the teens go on a field trip to the Portland Art Museum.
Present this voucher when you purchase items at the Tanasbourne Barnes & Noble and a percentage of the sales will go to Rise Above Arts Program. Even if you don’t have a voucher, you can let the cashier know that it’s for Rise Above.
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I have been homeless at several points in my life. Contrary to popular belief, most homeless did not become so out of choice and not because they are lazy, stupid, or immoral. Many homeless people are victims of abuse in the form of neglect and abandonment by their parents or other caregivers. Some of them are simply victims of life’s tragedies, such as hurricanes, fires, or other catastrophes from which they simply don’t have the resources to recover. I invite you to my blog devoted to raising awareness on homelessness: Freethegods.com. There you will find an article I wrote on homelessness and pictures I have taken of homeless people. I always give them a dollar or two for the privilege of photographing them. I am often surprised by their cheerfulness and sense of pride. Often, they will show themselves to have some kind of talent. There is a fine line between genius and insanity.
Peace on Earth -- Adieu to You:
"The Elite Who've Studied the People's Psychology
Know How to Hide Behind Names, Terminology,
Fascism, Nazism, Progressives, Democracy,
Differing Faces of Intelligentsic Plutocracy,
Down Through the Ages from Babylon's Tower,
Recruiting Elite Wannabees, Gathering Power,
Breeding Up Nations for Conquest by War,
Then Crying 'Overpopulation,' à la Al Gore,
Propping Up Control Freaks, Filled with Euphoria,
To Evangelize World into Coming Utopia,
But Give Up Your Birthright and Procreation
As You Dream Yourself into Annihilation"
Carbon Trading's Jumpin' Jack Flash -- He's a Gas, Gas, Gas:
"Con-Schemes of Plutocracy Always Pass,
Now the Winner is CO2 Gas,
Making a Fortune Trading Taxes and Debit,
Which No-one can Prove, That's to Their Credit,
International Corporations Making Profits Galore,
Paid by Little Consumer, Taxed Silly and Sore,
World Government Fascii is Surely Risen
As Each Nation-State is Turned into Prison,
The Planned Society Comes into View,
The Mass to be Peasants Ruled by the Few,
A Rich Intelligentsia, Idealism of Eons,
Use Fabian Governments to Re-Order the Peons,
No More the Rich Cultures of Variety,
As World is Standardized into Single Society"
Hear the Drumming, Here it's Coming:
"Orwell's Predictions, Dark, Foreboding,
Now are Facts, Stealth Unloading,
From All Media Like Tiny Particles
In All News Blitzes, Predictive Articles,
No Hocus-Pocus, but Repetition
Embedded in Minds with Precision,
Millions in Alpha State Watching TV,
Given Opinions They Don't Consciously 'See,'
Apathy Engendered by Force of State,
In Show of Power, Threatening the Fate
Of All Free People Who Hear Each Lie
From Organized Tyranny, Never Shy
To Say Wrong is Right, 'Work Makes Free,'
World Concentration Camp, Clear as Can be"
I’m afraid I don’t understand the context of these poems. They seem to be Alan Watt references? http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/ Help me understand.
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