Marta Sanchez, Poetry & art!

KEYNOTES & WORKSHOPS

During my keynote and workshop presentations I blend personal storytelling, visual art, and spoken word to educate communities, empower survivors, and encourage the advocates that support them. My approach to addressing sexual violence has been described as optimistic and engaging. Each presentation is tailored to address the collaboration organiation's areas of concern.

Past presentations include:

Self-care for advocates
Body image and self-love
Sexual assault risk reduction
Creating safer communities
How to support the survivors in your life
Reaching and healing kids through the arts
Exploring barriers created by rape myths
Creative alternatives to community outreach
Using poetry and art for self and community empowerment
Celebrating survival: focusing on healthy ways to survive and heal

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Testimonials:

Marta Sanchez creates incredible paintings and poetry. Not only is her work aesthetically beautiful, it is profoundly meaningful, thought provoking and challenging. I highly recommend her interactive presentations using art as a catalyst for education and healing. Marta is a gifted soul whose workshops will benefit survivors, activists and anyone who cares about their community.

-Lori Robinson Author of I Will Survive: The African-American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse

In addition to being a brilliant and inspiring artist, Marta is a gifted workshop facilitator, lecturer, and activist. When she presented her workshop, "The Healing Power of the Arts", she displayed an uncanny ability to establish an intimate and safe environment quickly in a room of strangers.

Like great activists that have come before, Marta shows enormous strength and resilience by allowing herself to be vulnerable in the service of making the personal political and the political personal.

By encouraging workshop participants to choose one of her paintings and speak about how the image resonates with them, she is able to make a universal connection between common experiences of pain and loss and the spiritual and emotional process of healing after violence.

I truly feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to meet Marta in person, hear her speak, and to become more acquainted with her illuminating artwork and poetry.
-Kate McCord Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance

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