2025 OVS Pre-Conference Webinar: Surviving the Mic: How to Make A Brave Space (8.13.25)

Описание: 2025 OVS Pre-Conference Webinar: Surviving the Mic: How to Make A Brave Space held on August 13, 2025

Nikki Patin
Founder, Executive Producer, Surviving the Mic

In 2014, Nikki Patin decided that she was tired of asking public performance spaces and their producers to hold space for the work of survivors of sexual violence. Starting as 10 week workshop series for spoken word artists who identified as Black, woman and survivors of sexual violence, Surviving the Mic (StM) evolved into a groundbreaking survivor-led open mic and workshop series.

New viewers of Surviving the Mic: How to Make A Brave Space will:
Highlight the differences between holding safe space and brave space.
Break down the StM Alignments (a set of survivor-led, co-created agreements that were designed with brave space as the intended outcome), with the opportunity for participants to begin envisioning their own brave spaces.
Facilitate a discussion with participants on how to center survivors and their artistic work, including best practices for building collaboration between cultural and educational organizations and clinical and social service providers to best support survivor artists

As a result of this session, attendees will gain insight into a survivor-led model for holding brave, artistic space for survivors.

2025 OVS Conference:
https://ovs.ny.gov/conference

PowerPoint Presentation Slides:
https://ovs.ny.gov/system/files/docum...