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Our mission is to create safe, sensitive, and diverse arts-based opportunities for our community’s processing and healing. We believe that providing intentional opportunities for gathering and sharing helps us in our individual and collective journeys. Therefore, coming together to share and listen to our community stories will help build the road toward a better future, for us as individuals and as a community.

Description:
HERE is a group of citizens who found each other in their mutual desire to develop and sponsor a program of community response to April 16. We are focusing on the local, community-based response to the changes that have happened because of the shootings, and the building of a new future that reflects that change. A broad range of funding sources are supporting current HERE work: April 17 Fund at the Community Foundation of the NRV, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, and Episcopal Relief and Development, as well as individual contributions and fundraising.

Contact people:

Shannon Turner, (phone), (email) Susan Mattingly, (phone), (email)

Address:

PO Box 665 Blacksburg, VA 24063

Web Site: http://www.here-nrv.org

Directions:

HERE operates primarily out of the Lyric Theatre, which is located at 135 College Avenue, directly across from Henderson Lawn in downtown Blacksburg.