<div id=":120" class="ii gt"><div id=":11z"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hi Everyone!</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I
am privileged to be a part of this production by my friend Mikaela and
Mackenzie. Please read below for more information about the <span class="il">project</span>, go on to Kickstarter, watch the <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/7174402/without-wordsmoving-against-the-sex-trade" target="_blank">video</a> and donate, then tell everyone you know!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">If you have any questions or want to know even more please feel free to email me back!</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>-Elizabeth</b><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i><br></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>WITHOUT
WORDS...moving against the sex trade</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">:
an artists’ response to the global sex trade.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We need your help in our endeavor to serve as a visible voice for the oppressed and to inform and
inspire audiences to take action on behalf of the enslaved. Specifically, we
are crafting a collaborative, evening-length production that incorporates dance
and theatre, photography and cinematography, narrative, digital media and
original music to premier June 2 thru 5, 2011 at the nationally renowned
Cleveland Public Theatre.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Without Words…Moving
Against the Sex Trade</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> represents
the collective, creative response of many lives to what is one of the greatest
human and moral perils of our time: the global sex trade.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Burdened to channel
their craft and energies for the sake of the estimated 400,000 to 1.75 million
sex slaves, Cleveland-based artists Mackenzie Clevenger and Mikaela Clark
initiated the <span class="il">project</span> in November, 2009 after being awarded an artists’
fellowship by a local nonprofit arts advocacy organization. With the door
open to even consider a production on the scale of Without Words, Clevenger and
Clark began a personal investigation of the global sex trade.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This investigation led
them as far away as Southeast Asia—a region notorious for sex tourism—and as
close to home as their own backyard—the city of Cleveland, like all the United
States, being not at all exempt from participation in the global sex trade.
These experiences, considered against the backdrop of existing data and
processed in the context of vibrant artistic and spiritual community, have
helped shape the thematic framework of <i>Without Words</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The problem is
overwhelming, yet the public's awareness is low.<span> </span>This is where <i>Without Words</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> comes in.<span>
</span>We desire to create impactful art that informs and inspires others to
take action.<span> </span>Creating this art is
a giant undertaking - personally and financially.<span> </span>This is where you come in.<span> </span>Please give your financial support.<span> </span>Your gift allows us to develop and
perform this work at a level of professionalism that this cause deserves.<span> </span>Meaningful art is not cheap, but when
done with excellence and humility, it can give a voice to those that have
none.<span> </span>Please give today to Without
Words. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Any and all donations
are most gratefully received. We trust that both the quality and content of
this performance will stir hearts and capture imaginations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">If you are compelled to
donate, visit our Kickstarter page at: </span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/7174402/without-wordsmoving-against-the-sex-trade" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/7174402/without-wordsmoving-against-the-sex-trade</a>.
This website serves as a fundraising source for creative projects, and here's
how it works: The artists have a goal to raise $7,500 in 45 days. <i>Without
Words</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> must meet their goal
within the 45 days (ending on April 1, 2011) or they will not receive any of
the money. They can, however, exceed their goal!!!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Follow these three
simple steps:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">1. Please forward this
to your friends and social networks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">2.<span> </span>Beginning RIGHT NOW (Feb. 15), <a href="http://goog_940455523/" target="_blank">Click here: </a><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/7174402/without-wordsmoving-against-the-sex-trade" target="_blank">Support Without Words</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">3. Click on <b>"Back
this <span class="il">Project</span>"</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> and follow
the simple steps.<span> </span>Yes, we even
take $1 donations!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Also, if you cannot
financially support us, we covet your prayers and your assistance in sharing
this with your network.<span> </span>Thank you
all for not only supporting us, but fighting against slavery.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> am</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">More on the artists
themselves:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Separate from their
accomplished work as company members with the contemporary dance company Inlet
Dance Theatre (<a href="http://www.inletdance.org/" target="_blank">http://www.inletdance.org</a>), Clevenger and Clark formally
launched their unique artistic partnership in July, 2009 at Cleveland’s
celebrated Ingenuity Festival (<a href="http://ingenuitycleveland.com/" target="_blank">http://ingenuitycleveland.com</a>) with the premier
of their first collaborative piece, <i>Beauty in Refuse</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">. The scale of <i>Without Words</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">, then, both in its duration and collaborative
scope, represents a significant expansion of Clevenger and Clark’s partnership.
Of greatest significance to the artists themselves, however, are the themes
actually explored by the performance. Although framed by an artistic landscape
often marked by unrestrained self-expression, Clevenger and Clark seek rather
to direct attention upon truths such as human dignity and the inherent value of
life—truths that, if embraced, would sabotage the global sex trade and other
abhorrent systems like it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Collaborating artists
include composer Jeremy Allen; lighting designer Trad Burns; Cinematographers
Stephen Piscura and Mark Valley; visual artist Mark Sugiuchi; and dancers
Joshua Brown, Joshua Landis, Elizabeth Pollert, Seanne Rodgers, and Lauren
Stonestreet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;">
</p><p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Public Broadcasting
System (<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/etc/stats.html" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/etc/stats.html</a>)</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;">
</p><p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Creative Workforce
Fellowship (CWF) (</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.cpacbiz.org/business/CWF.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">http://www.cpacbiz.org/business/CWF.shtml</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">)</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;">
</p><p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">The Community Partnership
for Arts and Culture (CPAC) (</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.cpacbiz.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">http://www.cpacbiz.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">)</span></p>
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