No Trespassing & Healing Through Creativity Art Festival
I have been writing creatively since the seventh grade. I have written poetry, prose, vignettes, short stories and have also written two novellas (that I have since lost, thrown out, will never see the light of day) throughout the past nine years. I wrote a vignette in 2007 and let it sit on my hard drive with the rest of my writing–All 100+ pieces that I have chosen to actually keep and let decay on my hard drive. Unlike the rest of my writing, however, one piece in particular, this vignette, has been changing my life in ways I have never even imagined possible. Just a few months ago, I first agreed to let a friend of mine and also a filmmaker, Dany Nieves, make it into a short, spoken word film that became part of a series of short films he has put together entitled ‘Cycle.’
I have spoken about the history of this piece on here once before and have also tried to keep everyone interested up to date on what has been going on with it and with that, I have some more exciting news!
‘Cycle,’ including the piece I wrote for it will be showing at Healing Through Creativity, an art festival for survivors of trauma and supporters of survivors which will include film, poetry, music, art, workshops and a lot more exciting events throughout a nine day festival. At the last Take Back the Night I attended here, a friend of mine commented about Take Back the Night being Christmas for survivors; if that’s Christmas, I can only imagine Healing Through Creativity being the New Years Eve, the bash of the year, for survivors.
The Healing Through Creativity Festival will be held October 10th-19th at The Davis Fine Arts Center at West Virginia State University in Charleston West Virginia. Not only will ‘Cycle’ be shown at the festival, but I will also be reading more of my work there, so it is a double-exciting-news event here. I really can’t encourage anyone who lives in West Virginia or can travel there during this 9 day event to do so enough. It is a great festival that helps the healing process for many, many survivors; plus I’ll be there from October 17th to 19th.
As for ‘Cycle,’ an image of the finished DVD can be seen below. I have the DVD sitting right here on my desk and no matter how many times a day I look at it, it never gets old seeing my name on a DVD, especially for writing; it’s a dream come true in many ways for me and I hope this feeling and this journey never stops.
Because of this DVD, the art festival, stepping forward and confronting my past abuse head on and years into the healing process, I have been greatly inspired to continue confronting my abuse and jumping over the hurdles that come with the healing process. I have always wanted to inspire people and I believe that I have started my journey with this and it certainly isn’t going to stop with this. I have been so inspired and in turn, have become so motivated to do more that I have a new project coming out so check back within the next few days to see the unveiling of that. I can’t tell you how excited I am about it and hope you’ll follow me on this incredibly journey.
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Congratulations Holly!!!!!
Holly this is fantastic. I would love to follow your journey. Your path of healing is inspirational to survivors the world over.
My bags are packed.
Perfect
It's always nice to have your name promoted in this positive way 
Congratulations!
What you got here is really something new to me. It's a unique tradition and I can't imagine if we had the same here….you're so lucky on your journey while I am still on my way to do things I've been dying to do.
Wow Holly — that's amazing! Congratulations!! Best of luck on your new projects!
Wouldn't it be a pain in the heart to let the rest of your writing–All 100+ pieces to just sit there in the hard drive. i wouldn't do that to myself. I'd rather have it in a notebook so that I can take a look at it easily without having to open the PC and look in the hard drive knowing it could be corrupted anytime and loose all my love with it in my writings.
I love writing too but it never occurred to me to keep my writings in a hard drive. That would seem to drive me insane if I lost those in a crash of a second.
Hello Holly,
congratulations even if this is too late. at least I made mine get to be counted here in your comments section.