We Give Our Efforts 4 Next Generations
Youth on Tacoma's streets are not there because they want to be.
Coming from homes often worse than you or i can imagine, they face unimaginable dangers every day, vulnerable as they are to the predatory nature of the streets. Reality for them is vulnerability and the constant stress of danger.
With far more young people on our streets than are recognized, the people that serve youth in need require help to do what they can to bring youth home.
Your support for them is beyond valuable.
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Currently Working w/ Tacoma Light Trail
More Collaborators: W.W. Seymour Conservatory at Wright Park Earthbound (Procession of the Species) Tacoma Pride Hilltop Artists Eastside Green Thumbs Tacoma Santa Parade (Since 2015) Tacoma's Downtown Block Party LeMay Family Foundation Tacoma Public Library Tacoma Frame Makers Terracrux Games Amy's Casual Comfort ReStyle Clothing Company Urban XChange (UXC) Gateway to India Tacoma Brewing The Copper Door Bluebeard Coffee Happy Belly Sanford & Sons Homage Tattoo Brass Monkey Soap & Clay Puget Sound Family Health Hilltop Loan |
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Dec 5 is the Tacoma Santa Parade on So. Tacoma Way. Expect 1,000 people in the parade, and very much merriment with holiday-themed festivities, 15 food trucks and much more. Want to join Stars 4 Peace in the parade itself? Your presence with us supports Youth w/ no shelter. Find out how to join in: Contact us & sign up. This project is active: Much is happening behind the scenes. Ideas for how we can make this project a success are welcome. |
Safe, enjoyable and fun, we created the Stars 4 Peace to address important need in a proactive array of creative ways
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Concerted Discovery
This Season youth experiencing homelessness are our focus.
Do you know who is helping youth in need in and around Tacoma? Can you connect us? We ask you to consider how you can help get youth in need in our city the supplies and help they need as they face such daily threats in a position of unimaginably tenuous vulnerability.
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Just Hear What is Real on 12-21-2020 |
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This project is now in post-production.
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Sound Comes Soon... |
2019 Music & Heart in Wright Park digital flyer
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At the Heart of Sound
Music & Heart in Wright Park 2019 we began a cycle of awareness fostering solutions to youth homelessness in Tacoma. We continue that work, creating well-informed content through the people serving youth at the ground level with the critical organizations that are in touch with youth and know what they need. Working with Radio Tacoma and other media sources our message reaches many.
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Now, we continue where we paused during the recent pandemic, & reach our city for youth.
Fun for Everyone, Easy 4 All
A Stellar Way to Enjoy Time with Loved Ones & Friends
& Support Youth with No Shelter in Tacoma
Participate in the Tacoma Santa Parade, the Tacoma Light Trail New Year's Eve Light Parade & More
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Be a Star: Make a Star & Include It w/ Others
(Details about how this event will unfold coming soon)
This Method is Easy to Scale
Variations exist - we got our instructions (FILE) directly from our friends at Olympia's Procession of the Species.
They recommend hot glue for joints - we also use tape. Disney's process, below, is simple, but lacks the strength our 2-fold papering process provides. Choose your way.
There is an interesting tradition from the Philippines that also fosters the kind of community identity with oneness of place and kind that we find absolutely wonderful. The video above provides a peek into a cultural way of life we find inspiring.
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Our Process
There is no wrong star... | ||||
More pictures and ideas here.
Why We Do It (Below)
What do we want to bring INTO our lives, INTO our world, our cities and our homes? Make a star, write a message on it (or included with it) and get it to a local participating business - we'll pick it up and include it in a special installation on 12-21-2020
The installation will be a collage of HOPE for what is to come, and a memorial for those we lost this year in Pierce County to Covid-19. If you would like to know more and participate, email us here.
(MusicHeartDestiny@protonmail.com)
Support Real, Feasible Solutions for
Youth w/ No Shelter in Tacoma
& the South Puget Sound
Be Part of Expansive Joy this Holiday Season
Grand Origins of this Stellar Work
In 2012 Vicci Martinez had her homecoming birthday show at Tacoma's Pantages Theater, after her national tour from performing on The Voice. Vicci was born on the International Day of Peace, so when we surprised her with an unforgettable assembly of illuminated sculpture, stars became associated with peace in Tacoma communities.
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Since then, we decided to do the most stellar thing we could think of and create a way to use the stars to gain important support for people in various states of need in Tacoma's local communities. We have helped women in transition, disadvantaged students, survivors of trauma due to abuse, returning citizens and now youth w/ no shelter.
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In order to pave the way for other communities to do the same, we licensed the Stars 4 Peace in the innovative Creative Commons, letting others also address need in their own communities, adapted in their own way to their unique needs and concerns.
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Amy's Casual comfort
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We use the attention from the Stars 4 Peace to gain important support for people in the most vulnerable situations in Tacoma. In 2017 we started a clothing drive that has supplied and continues to help supply survivors of abuse, disadvantaged youth and homeless people with quality clothes and food they need. This year we bring critical help to youth with no shelter in Tacoma.
Stars at the W.W. Seymour Wright Park Conservatory
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Stars at the W.W. Seymour Wright Park Conservatory
The W.W. Seymour Conservatory in Wright Park is Amazing
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Make one with your loved ones, family and favorite people
All stars welcome
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Stars 4 Peace have been installed in Tacoma's W.W. Seymour (Wright Park) Conservatory many times in many seasons over the years.
